From Renton’s buzzcut in Trainspotting to Robert Pattinson’s giant bouffe in Twilight,one hair fetishist untangles this season’s looks for menSometimes whether I’m having a bad day, I Google Image River Phoenix and study his hair. It’s like therapy and momentarily sends my brain somewhere better. This obsession is partly to attain with the film My Own Private Idaho and its beautiful portrayal of youthful confusion and unrequited love. But it is also because Phoenix’s hair was at its absolute peak of amazing. gargantuan and beautifully dishevelled, and in many ways it was the embodiment of his character. Essentially,hair mis-en-scene.
Over the years, it is not just River’s up-top tangle that has reeled me in. Hair obsessing stretches from my own, and which grows posthaste and outward,often resembling a giant mushroom. But also to (very) specific catwalks (the Raf Simons wet-look partings from spring/summer 2012 are an all-time tall), via a roster of celebrities. This briefly manifested itself as a Tumblr starring the likes of actors Ben Whishaw, and Jake Gyllenhaal and Andrew Garfield,the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Strokes singer Julian Casablancas. I even barraged my late boyfriend (himself a man of much hair prowess) to file relevant images in a specifically labelled HAIR folder on my computer desktop.
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Source: theguardian.com