Fashion's most iconic hairstyles What if creativity was channeled through hair?

Anna Piaggi had them cut only by Vidal Sassoon, Yves Saint Laurent lived in fear of losing them, and Rick Owens wears them smooth and long down to his shoulders: hair, like everything that inhabits our body, becomes a vehicle of communication in every respect. On the runway, on the street, in city and provincial salons or in the styling offices of brands and magazines, discussions about hair styling can go on for hours. Despite being destined for a physiological fall dictated by their life cycle, hair is continuously manipulated by our cuts and hairstyles. In 2018, even the MoMA wondered about the political and identity implications that could affect this piliferous mass composed mostly of keratin and sulfur bridges. The answers, as with any soft power vehicle, did not arrive in absolute form. That's why we questioned the minds of some of the creative directors who have written the history of fashion, trying to interpret the different lines of thought regarding fashion and its creative processes by taking their hair as an indisputable parameter of judgment.

So, here's everything you should know about fashion's creative directors and their hair.

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In 2018, Demna declared to The Guardian that elegance is not relevant in his creative vision. His extreme buzzcut could only testify to the urgency of someone who takes fashion seriously and turns it into a theatrical spectacle balancing between the cathartic power of tragedy and the irreverent verve of comedy. The silhouette of the creative director of Balenciaga, just like his haircut, is a kind of ground zero of fashion: no frills, little time, maximum impact.