Ah, fashion week. So hard to get right. Go too commercial, the frowgentsia call 'BORING'. Too abstract, they cry 'RIDICULOUS'. What's an impeccably dressed creative director to do?
During his brilliant A/W '19 menswear show in Paris - which took fifties-style suiting and deconstructed it several times over - designer Thom Browne found time to field the fashion week hairstyle to end all fashion week hairstyles. Presenting: the fashion troll.
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One part Dr. Seuss, two parts the chewed plastic eunuch on the end of your Year 4 pencil, these were coiffures that defied the laws of menswear and gravity as we know it, feats of follicular engineering that involved lots of hairspray, lots of boulder-jawed models and (probably) lots of hair extensions from far flung lands. And they were very, very fun.
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What better way to liven up the post-office drink than with an extra large '99 of human hair and Dax Wave and Groom? Think of the 2019 promotion prospects, too: what a fine head of hair, your line manager will say, get that man a pay rise: stat. Well-timed, as you'll probably need it to pay for the sundae-sculpting kit.
In a world of homogenous short-backs-and-sides, the fashion troll is the lid to give male grooming the shake up it needs in 2019. Coming to a barbershop window near you. Maybe.
https://www.esquire.com/uk/style/a25973926/introducing-2019s-must-have-haircut-the-fashion-troll/
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