Art Books

Laurent Caille

Chef Coiffeur - Perruquier

Chief Hairdresser - Wig Maker

introduce you his latest books :

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It is necessary to suffer to be beautiful

"History of Hair Dresses and Wigs through the Ages"
(the origins of the fashions in France and Europe)

Some courtesans who are made depilate until a third of head to look like the Queen Isabeau of Bavaria, the “elegants” which bleach their hair by using some decoctions composed of human urine to adapt to the fashion of Venetian blond which is famous under the Margot queen, some kings who powder their head with clouds of gold and an emperor called “the flowered beard” which never wore the beard and use of its power to kill all those who wore it, there are so many mysteries through history which show to the one can decode them, all the suffering that have been necessary to endure for the hairstyle, or rather because of the hairstyle! ...

To pass on the wood-shed because of red-headed, red beards, green and blue greased with rancid butter proudly worn by hordes of barbarians, Messalina wearing wigs not to be recognized in the famous Roman orgies, Alexander the Great which launches the fashion of short hair and of shaved faces for its soldiers defeat their enemies, a “naughty horse fall” of Mademoiselle de Fontanges which will change the history of France, some pulley systems integrated into the wigs in order to be able to pass under the doors to the castle of Versailles, powdering with flour the famous “cache-crazy” in a period of scarcity that will start the French revolution, the human being did not have of cease since millennia to use the capillary artifices to come to its ends, whether they are political, poetic or romantic…

At all times the hairdressing has been the first pageantry used to be identified culturally, socially and symbolically, and still even today in our modern societies (or sometimes however preserved societies), the goal of this first asset of identification remained unchanged. A Buddhist monk, a punk, a Rasta or a sâdhu, a politician of right-hand side, left or extremist, a woman residing in the 16th district in Paris rather than in suburbs, until traces of doping in the sportsmen, everything can be detected in this astonishing living matter and sometimes mystical whom represents the hair and its use.

And even today, this original purpose of identification has remained unchanged and each hairstyle is the reflection of the person who wears it. Look around you, everyone is different, each hairstyle is unique and reflects the image of its “owner”!

Laurent Caille, Chief Hairdresser and Master Wig Maker for cinema, opera and entertainment for more than twenty years, takes you to discover behind the scenes the history of France and of Europe with a very new glance…

Resulting from many methodical historical researches this unique conference is also a collection of tender anecdotes, funny and crusty that will let you interrogative when you will look again in a mirror your own hair nature.

Currently in the midst of writing this innovative book resulting from many methodical historical research, Laurent Caille, Chief Hairdresser and Wig Maker, is looking for a publisher in order to distribute the book to a wide public in France and internationally.

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