Joining the Style page for The Epoch Times is Mr. Harold Leighton who will be sharing his memories of his life in London as he developed his career as a hairdresser and consultant during the excitement of the British boom in fashion and music.
He tells us what it was like rubbing shoulders with those celebrities we watched, listened to, and dressed like from England back in the 1960s and ‘70s. Harold earned a place among the rich and famous with his beautiful hairstyles, his development of new ideas, and his inventions, including the round styling brush—how did they ever do without it?
Mr. Leighton was winning styling awards at the age of 17 and was accepted into apprenticeship along with others who became groundbreaking stylists of that time. Is there any more exciting era for new frontiers in the hairstyling world than the years in which men stopped cutting the sides short and slicking their hair back, letting it flop over their foreheads in the “Beatles mop,” or when women stopped spraying and teasing their locks into bouffant ‘dos and depended on a simple, clean curve of a cut that always looked natural and perfect? And what about the short, short hair of the thin, thin model Twiggy?
We welcome Mr. Leighton and salute him and all his colleagues for the bright new visions they brought us.
