Hair Frames & Avant Garde Hair

The video above is a clip from a TV show 'Hair' shown on the bbc. The program follows young hairdressers in a hair competition, they compete with eachother through various rounds including freestyle rounds where they have free reign on what they create with hair. It is beneficial to watch as they make all kinds of hair frames and avant garde creations of fantasy hair.

BBC Three (2014) The Mad Hatter & The Big Button - Hair: Episode 2 Preview - BBC Three. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7SmaxlYIGs (Accessed: 9 October 2015).

Fantasy Hair Examples

Catwalk Fantasy Hair

Fantasy Hair Frame Examples

The images above are of various fantasy hair examples, they are all very different and pose the question of what actually is fantasy hair. I would imagine that it would be defined by the fact that the hairstyles are unusual and that of artistic creation rather than regular hairdressing. Fantasy hair can also be suggested with colour also so it must suggest anything creative and unusual hair styling could be classed as fantasy hair. It is more about shapes and colours that can be created with hair.

Handout. (2010). Fantasy hair. [online]. Available from: http://www.dailypress.com/entertainment/dp-fantasy-hair-111110-photogallery.html [Accessed 3 December 2015].

There is a very fine line between what is a hair frame and what is a hair hat, some of the images above definitely cross that line and show none or little incorporation of natural hair into an artificial hair frame. This is what I must be careful of when designing the hair frame because it must have the natural hair incorporated or it is not a hair frame it is a hat. There are some beautifully designed hair 'hats' however it does not fit the context.

Service, M. F. (2010). The ultimate big hair day: Models show off fantasy fashion with ships, castles and ’dos that blow bubbles. Daily Mail. [online] 23 . April 2010. Available from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268235/International-Fantasy-Hair-Models-fashion-ships-castles-dos-blow-bubbles.html [Accessed 15 December 2015].