Could “The Odyssey” bring the 1970s hair to wear trend back? Perhaps, but we will have to wait and see. Though Christopher Nolan avoided wigs in the film, “The Odyssey” still entered the hair conversation with the promo tour, where Zendaya made headlines in a red-carpet-ready Pre-Raphaelite braided wig styled by Law Roach. Curious to find a connection to the moment, my weekly archives query turned up a 1971 Women’s Wear Daily supplement cover titled “What’s a Head: A WWD Special Feature on Wigs.” The cover, shown in this reprint, featured a fun illustration of, as WWD noted in its credits, “One of those first wigs…worn by a Minoan woman, from a fresco in the palace of Minos, Greece.” WWD noted the moment, expanding its coverage with “Wigs: The Wigged Woman,” a column charting up-to-the-minute trends as the wig boom took hold of fashion. Wigs were no longer just replacements, but fashion assets — branded with designer names from Halston and Yves Saint Laurent to legendary hairstylists Mr. Kenneth and Vidal Sassoon — for fashion-forward women seeking ways to express their individual personalities, on and off the red carpet, from head to toe.
