Barber Couture

Including photographs of barber shops and shaving instruments, the styles and trends of male hair cuts are described together with key historical events, personalities, music and fashions.

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A revival is now under way of the aesthetic deriving from the fashions of the 20th century's youth cultures and subcultures. The period in which these trends were distinguished by political or social connotations has now come to an end, and it is simply the stylistic elements that are dominant today: reworked, improved and hybridised to develop an innovative aesthetic canon with evident historical roots in the pop culture with which to identify and, above all, be identified. The impetus comes from the young and not so young men of the 21st century, affluent, carefree travellers, professionally fulfilled, vain, hedonistic and sexually uninhibited.