Autobiography of a non celebrity hairstyles
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Meet the Man Who Styled Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe's Hair — But Never Shared Their Secrets
On the night that Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday to President Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, her hairdresser, Kenneth (who needed no last name) visited her Manhattan apartment and styled her hair into a platinum blonde swoop.
“Marilyn did not want me backstage with her,” Kenneth said once in an interview.
Autobiography of a non celebrity hairstyles
“She said she was fearful of publicity. I don’t know what she had in mind, but since I was doing both Marilyn and Mrs. Kennedy at the same time, I imagine it was about that.”
That story, and many more, are shared in a new biography of the legendary hairstylist: Kenneth: Shear Elegance, by Giuseppe Longo.
"There was Hollywood royalty and that was Marilyn Monroe, and there was American royalty and that was Mrs. Kennedy, and those were the two most famous ladies of that era," says Longo. "And they were both connected to Kenneth."
Jackie Kennedy,