Wondering what to do with your hair for New Year’s Eve? Here’s a little inspiration for you from Hair Wars, the annual battle of “hair entertainers”.
Hair Wars started in Detroit nightclubs in 1985 as an informal stage show for local hair stylists to show off their hair creations, which include an enormous range of hair extensions. The show celebrates and rewards outrageousness. Stylists compete to create the most unusual and memorable looks. Gravity is routinely defied. Video clips from Hair Wars 2008 are here. The 2009 Hair Wars show will take place in Detroit on Sunday, July 19 at the Hilton Hotel Troy.
At the 2008 show, more than 2,000 people watched 250 models strut the runway. There were women with helicopters on their heads, (“hairy copters) propellers spinning. Another woman balanced a barbecue grill complete with spatulas and tongs in her long locks. Just when it seemed things could get wilder, a lady sauntered down the runway with a four-foot python zipped inside her do.
Photographer David Yellen and fashion writer Johanna Lenander decided to document, through portraits and interviews, the creative power of “fantasy hair” stylists. Their photography book, Hair Wars, presents a series of 74 four-color photographs that were taken in several Hair Wars shows around the country between 2004 and 2006.
Top photo, David Yellen
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