Big hair day
August 14 2009
Get a Motown makeover at the BIG HAIR
DAY
On Sunday 23 August at the special exhibition
The Story of The Supremes From the Mary Wilson
Collection, visitors are invited to get a Motown makeover
with top Bath hair stylists Artizan. Two for one entry to
the exhibition at the Council-run Assembly Rooms is on offer for
adults and children wearing 60’s outfits on Sunday only. You can
complete the Motown look with free hair and make-up sessions on
site between 10.30am and 5.00pm.
The trademark thick eyeliner, false eyelashes,
and huge backcombed hairstyles synonymous of 60s Supremes style,
along with their glamorous gowns and glittering costume jewellery,
made the Supremes new role-models for young Americans, both black
and white. The Virgin Encyclopaedia of Popular Music noted ‘ with
their girl-next-door looks and endearingly unsophisticated
demeanour, The Supremes became role models for young
Americans.”
One visitor to the exhibition from the USA
remembers: "My best friend Lisa Norberg and I played Supremes
dress-up while playing her sister's Supremes albums, that we
weren't allowed to touch. 2 white girls in tiny Tillamook, Oregon.
She is a 50+ year old hair dresser now, and still does BIG
styles!"
And BIG styles will be the order of the day on
Sunday. Phil Thompson, owner of Artizan salon, and his staff will
be on hand on the day to help you achieve the Motown ‘look’.
The Supremes exhibition includes a filmed
interview with Maxine Powell who ran The Motown Artist Development
Division, or ‘charm school’ for Berry Gordy, Motown’s boss. The
mission was simple, as Powell said artists should “be able to dine
and converse with kings and queens”. “The artists were diamonds in
the rough, and Motown had the good sense to polish them” she
said.
Mary Wilson in a recent interview comments:
“Being an individual was not important to us – we wore the same
clothes to show a wonderful sense of sisterhood. We had three
totally different personalities and looks, but together we made one
perfect unit”.
And that ‘perfect unit’ - The Supremes -
can been seen and heard until 31 August at the Assembly Rooms
in Bennett Street, 10.30am – 5pm, exit 6pm. http://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/.
Further events planned for the closing weekend
29-31 August include: a Motown is 50! Birthday
Special at Komedia on 29 August 11pm-4am www.komedia.co.uk/bath, and a
One Day Motown Classics Music Workshop led by
American vocalist Joan Davis, on Sunday 30 August 12.00-8pm at the
Assembly Rooms. Advanced booking essential on 01225 420783,
http://www.truevoice.co.uk/.
ENDS