“The primary time I noticed Dolly in a wig I had minimize and styled, I cried,” Wooden provides. Extra not too long ago, Parton has worn a punk-country piece by Wood whereas selling her upcoming album, “Rockstar” (popping out November seventeenth), and Wooden helped out by recreating a few of Parton’s iconic wigs from the ‘60s and ’70s to be featured contained in the pages of Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones. There’s additionally “one thing main” on the horizon she will’t fairly discuss but.
Parton is not Wooden’s solely excessive profile shopper. Her tendency to set and elegance with a classic aesthetic has attracted Dita Von Teese and singer Raye (who has a really Linda Evangelista ’92 look going proper now), naturally.
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Wooden first realized the ability of hair—and admire retro styling—when she was a toddler. “My granddad was a barber and we all the time watched outdated films collectively, I assume he impressed each my profession and my fashion,” she says. “I began hairdressing straight out of college at 17, and I had all these tattoos and regarded a bit of totally different, so I could not get a job wherever. I ended up organising store at house whereas working with sufferers with dementia. I’d do their hair for them and watch them change into calm in the course of the course of. It actually formed me.”
Tremendous-fans who need the Parton Von Teese remedy (or simply love unimaginable classic hairstyling) can e book a London-based session with Wooden at her studio, which “has a ’70s witchy vibe happening so we name it The Coven.” It’s also possible to purchase a wig of your own, which may be shipped worldwide, identical to Parton would.
The upper the hair could get you nearer to God—however one in every of these wigs will get you nearer to Dolly.
