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HAIR STORY #1

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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

I have always been fascinated with magazines. They gave me things to aspire to. When I was a boy, it was automobile magazines; when I was an apprentice hairdresser, American fashion magazines showed me a world I dreamed of being a part of; looking at Diana Vreeland’s Vogue was an essential part of my education. When I came to New York in the ’70s to start Bumble and bumble and needed press, I sent photographs of our work to a few magazines; it was Vogue that first gave us a small write-up, and it wasn’t long until I was working with editors at most of the major titles. This magazine doesn’t promise to be everything to everyone. Rather, like all good magazines, it does promise a considered point of view by experts on a subject, in this case hairdressing. Hairstory is the name of this magazine and the name of our company because we all have stories about our hair that bookmark our lives – the first barbering, the school pictures, the Mullet, the Farrow, the Farrah, the Hamill, the Rachel, the home experiments – universal experiences that leave emotional imprints and shape us.

Hairstory Studio is where we create products that are revolutionizing the craft by changing preconceptions about how to clean hair and take care of it while also reducing needless waste, execute our marketing and design, and cut, color and style a modest number of loyal clients. What is most unusual is the time and energy we devote to creating original content by recruiting people from New York City, transforming their hair and shooting their portraits. The best of them during the past year is showcased here.

While the web and social media creates fantastic opportunities to spread our message, and we owe whatever success we’ve achieved so far to it, there’s nothing like a physical object to hold, linger on, and contemplate; in the era of insta-, it’s comforting to have something perma-. We hope you find it worth far more than the paper it’s printed on, and of course, if you’re not already a fan we invite you to follow us on Hairstory.com and join a revolution in hairdressing. Michael Gordon

ROSE GOLD 50 years ago, cars were made in all kinds of colors to choose from. Today, most of them are black, white or silver. Haircolor has followed a similar path – you’d think three-quarters of modern women were born blonde. The problem is that most of them either shouldn’t be blonde in the first place, or were given the wrong shade – too brassy, too light, too dark, highlighted as if by machine, not sophisticated, stunning, nor suitable. The world is made of a staggering number of colors, dusky, smoky, or subtle to vibrant, florescent, or iridescent. Lipstick companies create endless variations of red; nail polish now offers a far broader palette than ever. It is time to expand the possibilities for hair as well, and color sorceress Roxie Darling has made this her mission. Inspired by the southwestern desert and her collection of mid-century carnival glass, she demonstrates here that even a small slice of the color wheel has infinite variety.

A WARMER SHADE OF BLONDE

Hairstylist: Wes Xxxx Colorist: Roxie Darling

RG Hairstylist: Wes Xxxx Colorist: Roxie Darling

Hairstylist: Wes Xxxx Colorist: Roxie

RG Darling

CAT THE YEAR OF THE

The prevailing attitude about hair length is that if you cut it short you’ll be forever caught in transitional limbo trying to

grow it out again. But Cat’s year long experimentation with cut and color disproves the theory with these twelve looks that are anything but transitional – each is an end in itself. The moral

of her hairstory is that timid choices rarely pay off. So be bold – you’ve got nothing to lose but some hair.

JANUARY JULY

FEBRUARY

APRIL

MARCH

MAY

JUNE

AUGUST

OCTOBER SEPTEMBER

DECEMBER NOVEMBER

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THE WOMAN WHO

THE EARTH

Marina is a model who recently fell to New York from her native Serbia. She arrived at Hairstory Studio one day to have her color done, and her otherworldly beauty mesmerized us all. Stylist Tony Kelley was so taken with her that he conceived a shoot inspired by the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth starring David Bowie

extraterrestrial

who crash lands seeking a way to ship water to his drought-ridden planet. This hairstory follows Marina from isolation to assimilation,

challenges

our

powers of observation, and asks how much of ourselves we disguise and how much we reveal

Marina Xxxxx courtesy of Women Agency Fashion stylist: Steve Schul

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Marina Xxxxx courtesy of Women Agency

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Fashion stylist: Steve Schul

Marina Xxxxx courtesy of Fashion stylist: Steve Schul

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Women Agency

Marina Xxxxx courtesy of

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Women Agency Fashion stylist: Steve Schul

Marina Xxxxx courtesy of Fashion stylist: Steve Schul

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Women Agency

KELLY’S HAIRSTORY “A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life,” said Coco Chanel. We not only agree with that statement; it could easily be the Hairstory raison d’etre. We knew we were on the right track when we went from scouring the streets for volunteer models to being inundated by requests via social media. The fact is that we have an amazing team of artists focused on making each subject feel comfortable enough to venture outside their comfort zone and discover how great they can look – and feel – without forcing them to become someone they’re not. It happens time after time; we watched Kelly arrive at the studio wondering exactly what she had signed up for, unused to the attention and scrutiny. As the day went on she saw herself transform; her confidence bloomed and her inner model came out to play in front of the camera.

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grew

East

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the

Low-

Manhattan.

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the

New

School.

free time I like to draw, meditate and skate around

the city.

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directors

Antonioni;

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experimental

film-

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lack of a verbal

filter;

having

privacy

alone;

riding

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in-depth

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about

the

their

personal

hair

history

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have

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hair

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fun

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well.

Tell us about your Hairstory experience. I love the cut and the color and feel very lucky. Everybody involved made it a satisfying experience. I even got approached about a modeling gig while working at the Sunshine.

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Q A Where are you from I grew up in the Lower

A modeling gig while working at the Sunshine.

East Side of Manhattan?

I grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

I just got a job at the Sunshine Theater. I also

I just got a job at the Sunshine Theater.

work as an assistant producing a new website for a

I also work as an assistant producing a new

Where are you from I grew up in the Lower East

website

for

organization.

Side of Manhattan?

films

part-time

I grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

the New School. In my free time I like to

I just got a job at the Sunshine Theater. I also

draw,

city.

work as an assistant producing a new website for a

Italian directors like Fellini and Antonioni;

film producers’ organization. I make films and take

What do you do? I just got a job at the Sunshine Theater?

classes part-time at the New School. In my free time

I grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

I like to draw, meditate and skate around the city.

I just got a job at the Sunshine Theater.

Italian directors like Fellini and Antonioni;

I also work as an assistant producing a new

What do you do? I just got a job at the Sunshine Theater?

website

for

organization.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

films

part-time

I just got a job at the Sunshine Theater. I also

the New School. In my free time I like to

work as an assistant producing a new website for a

draw,

city.

film producers’ organization. I make films and take

Italian directors like Fellini and Antonioni;

classes part-time at the New School. In my free time

What inspires you Italian directors like Fel-

I like to draw, meditate and skate around the city.

lini and Antonioni; experimental filmmakers

Italian directors like Fellini and Antonioni;

like Kenneth Anger? experimental filmmakers

What inspires you Italian directors like Fell-

like Kenneth Anger; Jennifer Lawrence’s lack

ini and Antonioni; experimental filmmakers like

of a verbal filter; having privacy and being

Kenneth Anger? experimental filmmakers like

alone; riding the Staten Island Ferry to stay

Kenneth Anger; Jennifer Lawrence’s lack of a

with my boyfriend. What made you want to be a

verbal filter; having privacy and being alone;

Hairstory Model? And why did it take a year

riding the Staten Island Ferry to stay with my

to happen?

boyfriend. What made you want to be a Hairstory

What made you want to be a Hairstory Mod-

Model? And why did it take a year to happen?

el? And why did it take a year to happen? I

What made you want to be a Hairstory Model?

liked the concept of talking to women in-

And why did it take a year to happen? I liked

depth about their hair and seeing the per-

the concept of talking to women in-depth about

sonal history and identity we carry around

their hair and seeing the personal history and

and maintain, before trying to change that. I

identity we carry around and maintain, before

also have grown tired of trying to have “mag-

trying to change that. I also have grown tired

azine” hair and want to experiment and have

of trying to have “magazine” hair and want to

fun with it, which is what the women on your

experiment and have fun with it, which is what

website do well. Tell us about your Hairstory

the women on your website do well. Tell us

experience. I love the cut and the color and

about your Hairstory experience. I love the cut

feel very lucky. Everybody involved made it a

and the color and feel very lucky. Everybody

satisfying experience. I even got approached

involved made it a satisfying experience. I

about

even got approached about

make

film

classes

skate

around

producers’

take

and

about

producers’

take

and

meditate

film

and

meditate

make

Tell

classes

skate

your

the

around

Hairstory

the

experience.

Tell

about

your

Hairstory

experience.

I love the cut and the color and feel very lucky.

experimental filmmakers like Kenneth Anger; Jen-

nifer Lawrence’s lack of a verbal filter; hav-

ing privacy and being alone; riding the Stat-

en Island Ferry to stay with my boyfriend.

What made you want to be a Hairstory Mod-

What

el? And why did it take a year to happen?

el?

Everybody involved made it a satisfying experience. I even got approached about a modeling

gig

while

working

the

Sunshine.

Island

made

And

Ferry you

why

want

did

stay to

with

take

boyfriend.

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year

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happen?

WITH MICHAEL GORDON