Remembering Astrid Kirchherr, the photographer who helped create the Beatles’ iconic mop top look.
Earlier this month, the world lost Astrid Kirchherr, the German photographer and artist who helped put the Beatles on the map in the early 1960s with her distinctive black-and-white photographs.
“All my friends in art school used to run around with this sort of, what [you’d now] call Beatles haircut,” Kirchherr told the BBC in 1995. “And my [first] boyfriend, Klaus Voormann, had this hairstyle, and Stuart liked it very, very much. He was the first one who really got the nerve to get the Brylcreem out of his hair and [ask] me to cut his hair for him.
Embracing nuance at every turn with her own sense of style, Kirchherr had an eye for what was next, and continued to influence the Beatles in a number of ways throughout the ’60s as she documented their meteoric rise. “Intelligent, inspirational, innovative, daring, artistic, awake, aware, beautiful, smart, loving, and uplifting friend to many,” wrote Lewisohn inProduct recommendations, celebrity beauty secrets, and how-tos, delivered to your inbox.
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