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‘Tease it to Jesus!’ – the beatific return of big hair
An expression of racial pride, a mark of social status, a shield to insecurity … voluminous hair has meant many things to many people over the years
After Miley Cyrus won her first Grammy Awards this month, she took to social media to “personally thank my hair” – a 1970s coif that made the case for dangerous quantities of hairspray, back brushing, Velcro rollers and hairpins. Doll-like models wore coloured wigs inspired by The Supremes at the Marc Jacobs’ show in New York earlier this month, to celebrate his brand’s 40th anniversary. Photograph: Nina Westervelt/WWD/Getty ImagesLarger-than-life hair has been dominating the screen, too: from Cailee Spaeny’s gravity-defying ’do in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla; to Amy Winehouse’s back-brushed beehive in Back to Black, a biopic about her life coming in April.
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