“My memories are punctuated by hair,” says the British stylist Guido Palau. “The past, jogged by a certain song, a lyric, or just a vague, hazy feeling, comes flooding back in a blur of iconic looks, and I can place the era entirely. Hair has the ability to do that.” To this day, the song “Atomic,” by Blondie, transports Palau to his experimental teenage years. “Oh, your hair is beautiful,” sang the root-blighted Debbie Harry, and everyone believed her.
“Hair, at that time, was such a signifier of who you were,” says Palau, who has worked with everyone from Richard Avedon to Alexander McQueen. “The impact that hair had on me was immense. You’d go to any town, and everyone would have a different look; it was such a big…
