30.3.11

87. Know Your Product- Eugène Schueller





Those of you who have been following HEADS WILL ROLL will know I'm a sucker for hair-history. So without further ado, let me introduce you to Eugene Schueller, he's like the Godfather of modern hair color.


Eugène Schueller (20th March 1881- 23rd August 1957) a French chemist and a graduate of the Institut de Chimie Appliquée de Paris (now Chimie Paris Tech), discovered p-phenylenediamine and develops a synthetic formula to color the hair in 1907.

This formula is nicknamed “Auréole“.

On 30th July, 1909, Schueller registers his company, the Société Française de Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux ( literally "French Society of Inoffensive Hair Dyes"). The guiding principles of the company eventually became L’Oréal as we know it today.



Controversy.

During the early twentieth century, Schueller provided financial support and held meetings for La Cagoule at L'Oréal headquarters. La Cagoule was a violent French Fasict-leaning and anti-communist group.

*This was extensively researched by Michael Bar-Zohar in his book, Bitter Scent.





Further Reading-


7.3.11

86. Best hair Paris Fashion Week A/W 2011





Best hair for Paris Fashion Week A/W 2011 goes to Guido Palau and Josh Wood, the later dyed the hair for Jean Paul Gaultier towering beehives.

Guido Palau prepped the silver strands the day before the show with loads of Redken Forceful 23 Super Strength Finishing Spray. “It’s the sixties Hitchcock feeling that’s been around a lot this season, but we’re taking it to a Gaultier level,” which mandated a precise attention to structural detail mixed with a touch of humor -fun hair swirls were sculpted above bangs and molded into sideburns.

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Photos by Luca Cannonieri for GoRunway.com

1.3.11

85. Carousel.






I've been thinking a lot about this shoot I did way back in 2001. There's a bold simplicity in the hair that I have been trying to recapture.

More hair by Jean-Paul Rosette, click here.