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Hair places

Cities, streets and sacred sites where hair styles were born, cut and offered. 16 places so far.

Style capital Barber street or district Sacred site School or museum Culture region

KindAll Style capital Barber street or district Sacred site School or museum Culture region

South Asia

Style capital, IndiaChennaiLong plaits with jasmine, the braided hair of Bharatanatyam dancers, and the kudumi of temple priests.Style capital, IndiaMumbaiBollywood's city: film-star fringes and buns, gajras from Dadar flower market and Maharashtrian bridal hair.

East Asia

Style capital, China, 1 hairstyleBeijingThe Qing capital that imposed the queue on Chinese men and dressed Manchu women in the tall liangbatou.Style capital, South KoreaSeoulJoseon topknots, braided ribbons and court wigs, the topknot ban of 1895, and today's K-pop salons.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Style capital, GhanaAccraGhana's capital, which gave its name to Ghana braids and where a court case over locs reached the High Court.Style capital, SenegalDakarSenegal's capital, home of Senegalese twists and braiders who took their craft to Harlem, Paris and beyond.Style capital, South AfricaJohannesburgSouth Africa's biggest city, where hair was once used in racial classification and is now a scene of braiders, doeks and debate.Style capital, NigeriaLagosYoruba braids, threaded sculptures and the towering gele headwraps of Lagos weddings and parties.

Europe

Style capital, France, 3 hairstylesParisWhere Marcel Grateau invented the marcel wave in 1872, Antoine popularised the bob, and the chignon and French twist were perfected.Style capital, United Kingdom, 2 hairstylesLondonVidal Sassoon's geometric bob, Twiggy's crop, barristers' wigs and a city of barbers and stylists.Style capital, ItalyRomeBusts in the Capitoline Museums show Roman women's towering curls and men's short combed cuts; the Vatican kept the tonsure.

North America

Style capital, United States, 5 hairstylesHarlemThe Manhattan neighbourhood of finger waves and conks, the afro, and the African braiding salons of 125th and 116th streets.Style capital, United States, 5 hairstylesNew York CityThe barbershops of Brooklyn and the Bronx, where hip hop gave the world the hi-top fade, the Brooklyn fade and waves.Style capital, United States, 1 hairstyleHollywoodThe film and television capital whose stars made the bob, victory rolls, the pixie, feathered hair and the Rachel.Style capital, United States, 1 hairstyleNew OrleansWhere a 1786 law forced women of colour to cover their hair, and they turned the tignon into a statement of style.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Style capital, BrazilRio de JaneiroThe city of carnival, of the Black Rio dance parties of the 1970s, and of a natural-hair movement in its north zone.

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