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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Big hair everywhere
NEWS STRAITS TIMES 18 April 2010
Voluminous locks have symbolised female power throughout history, writes ERIC WILSON
SHOULD it be interpreted as a sign of the apocalypse, or just a really big trend, that both Hillary Clinton and Snooki have been accused of wearing Bumpits of late? It is no coincidence that Clinton and Nicole (Snooki) Polizzi of new reality television show Jersey Shore — one the secretary of state, the other the stereotype of a succubus — share a fondness for big hair. Voluminous locks have symbolised female power throughout history, from the wealthy Roman women whose elaborate hairstyles were created by their slaves to Marie Antoinette and her four-foot wigs, from the cast of Dynasty to the current crop of dandelion-headed women appearing in popular culture at the same moment as a simple plastic device that promises instant volume by “bumping” it up.
Jennifer Johnson, the hairstylist of Gossip Girl, swears by Bumpits to create the subtle Blair Waldorf bouffant. Laugh if you must, but Polizzi had to go on The Jay Leno Show to defend the authenticity of her teased tresses.
That was in January.
Now big bumpy hair is everywhere, and New Jersey, for once, appears to have been at the forefront of a fashion trend.
Big hair was all over the runways for autumn, from the feathery curls at Oscar de la Renta in New York to the 1960s-inspired poufs at Rochas in Paris, and now it’s showing up in magazines: headbands and upsweeps in Harper’s Bazaar; the full Upper East Side blowout treatment in W. “These New Jersey TV women are becoming pop icons,” said Eric Alt, the owner of three Garden State salons and stylist to luminaries like Danielle Staub of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and the figure skater Johnny Weir.
Alt worked on the hair at the DKNY show in February, describing the look as a modified Snooki pouf — big on top, slick on the sides.
And yes, he’s getting more requests for bigger hair, but he swears it’s not a Jersey thing. Indeed, in small towns in America, hair is getting bolder.
For Stephanie Kocielski, artistic director of John Paul Mitchell Systems, it is a sign of the times.
As many women are resisting fashion purchases, “the only real area where people can influence change right now is their hair.” — NYT
Voluminous locks have symbolised female power throughout history, writes ERIC WILSON
SHOULD it be interpreted as a sign of the apocalypse, or just a really big trend, that both Hillary Clinton and Snooki have been accused of wearing Bumpits of late? It is no coincidence that Clinton and Nicole (Snooki) Polizzi of new reality television show Jersey Shore — one the secretary of state, the other the stereotype of a succubus — share a fondness for big hair. Voluminous locks have symbolised female power throughout history, from the wealthy Roman women whose elaborate hairstyles were created by their slaves to Marie Antoinette and her four-foot wigs, from the cast of Dynasty to the current crop of dandelion-headed women appearing in popular culture at the same moment as a simple plastic device that promises instant volume by “bumping” it up.
Jennifer Johnson, the hairstylist of Gossip Girl, swears by Bumpits to create the subtle Blair Waldorf bouffant. Laugh if you must, but Polizzi had to go on The Jay Leno Show to defend the authenticity of her teased tresses.
That was in January.
Now big bumpy hair is everywhere, and New Jersey, for once, appears to have been at the forefront of a fashion trend.
Big hair was all over the runways for autumn, from the feathery curls at Oscar de la Renta in New York to the 1960s-inspired poufs at Rochas in Paris, and now it’s showing up in magazines: headbands and upsweeps in Harper’s Bazaar; the full Upper East Side blowout treatment in W. “These New Jersey TV women are becoming pop icons,” said Eric Alt, the owner of three Garden State salons and stylist to luminaries like Danielle Staub of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and the figure skater Johnny Weir.
Alt worked on the hair at the DKNY show in February, describing the look as a modified Snooki pouf — big on top, slick on the sides.
And yes, he’s getting more requests for bigger hair, but he swears it’s not a Jersey thing. Indeed, in small towns in America, hair is getting bolder.
For Stephanie Kocielski, artistic director of John Paul Mitchell Systems, it is a sign of the times.
As many women are resisting fashion purchases, “the only real area where people can influence change right now is their hair.” — NYT
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