90. Ara Gallant. Hairdressing Hall Of Fame.

Twiggy- flying hair.

Ok, so you watched the video on the previous post called "flying hair" now you can see where the idea came from.

Ara Gallant was born Ira Gallantz in 1932 in the Bronx, but later changed his name because he felt Ara Gallant sounded more exotic. And the life he led was, indeed, an exotic one. Gallant started his career in fashion as a hairdresser, working at Bergdorf Goodman as one of New York’s top colorists. By the mid-1960s he was approached by Vogue and began working exclusively as hair-stylist on photo assignments. In fact, he was the first hair stylist to be paid for such work. Today we call that a "session hair stylist".

Gallant worked with many of the great fashion photographers of the period, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Bert Stern, among them. His most notable contribution was the introduction "flying hair" a visual gimmick he first used on an Avedon shot with Twiggy in 1966. The effect is still widely copied today.

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By the early 1970s Gallant began shooting picture himself. His first assignment was celebrity portraits for Interview magazine. His work often juxtaposed classic Horst-like compositions with contemporary scenarios. In the early 1980s Gallant moved to L.A. to lead with his friend Jack Nicholson and to pursue a directing career. It never happened, in the 1990's he committed suicide in a hotel room in Las Vegas.

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Buy this book. Ara Gallant by David Wills.

63. Guido Palau

Guido Palau is considered one of the world's most inventive, conceptual hair stylists, working from the philosophy that hair should be styled with more thought than product.

Collaborating for the past fifteen years with designers, advertisers, and editorial publications, Guido has raised hairstyling to an art form. He works regularly with fashion photographers Steven Meisel, David Sims, and Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot. Guido’s innovative work is featured regularly in Italian, French, British and American Vogue, POP, Another Magazine, V, and W.

Guido’s radically expressive styles have been seen on the runway for such diverse fashion houses as Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein, Versace, Marc Jacobs, Prada, Miu Miu, and Alexander McQueen.

His first book, Heads: Hair by Guido, was published to much acclaim in 2000 and features a decade of stunning head shots, a testament to hair as style's most defining signature. Guido has recently teamed up with hair care giant Redken to be a creative consultant on their various lines of products and represent them through his work in fashion editorial and on runway shows.

All Hair by Guido Palau.

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Photos by Daniel Jackson for Vogue Nippon

I have already mentioned the amazing hairdresser Didier Malige before in a previous post titled New York I love you, but you're bringing me down. For his work for New York Fashion week. But did you know he has a book? Here's the scoop.

Didier Malige was inspired as a boy to become a hairstylist by grooming the cats and dogs at his mother's veterinary clinic. In the mid 60s he joined Carita as an apprentice, at the time Paris' trend setting salon. He then left to collaborate with Jean Louis David styling hair on fashion shoots. Working alongside several renowned fashion photographers influenced him to photograph his own growing family of cats.

http://www.amazon.com/Grace-Coddington-Didier-Malige-Catwalk/dp/3865213448

Note on title. "causin havoc in HELL" from the lyrics to Raisin Hell by Run DMC