Word: stylist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Your Hair, your stylist will not only give you advice on whether you should get a bob or a shag; she'll help you plan that dream getaway to Martinique...
...reacted to these crude and, in most eyes, culturally negligible designs in the way an earlier American stylist, Elie Nadelman, had responded to anonymous folk art. He found beauty and a sort of wry pathos in them, along with a disregarded but distinct sense of style. Lichtenstein wasn't the first artist to react to American comic strips. Miro is plausibly said to have been influenced by George Herriman's now classic Krazy Kat. Apart from Stuart Davis, however, he was the first American artist to do so, because American artists had always been rather ashamed of their own vernacular...
...embraced the trend with not one but three premieres on successive nights: Lukas Foss's Griffelkin, Hugo Weisgall's Esther and, most provocatively, Ezra Laderman's Marilyn (yes, that Marilyn). All three were designed by Jerome Sirlin (who did Broadway's Kiss of the Spider Woman), a dazzling visual stylist whose fluid use of video projections instead of built sets annihilates space and time and gives his productions an exhilarating sense of visual freedom...
...fabulous thing about Diego's, and what distinguishes it from less posh establishments, is that its stylists are completely fearless and up for anything. If you go to Supercuts, for example, you will be expected to issue specific, but nonbinding, instructions. But at Diego's your stylist will suggest any number of kicky cuts for you, and will give you lots of sage advice about caring for your hair...
...stylist, who I'll call "Marie" although that's not actually her name, advised me to try a short-and-puffy in the back, longer in the front look, which I of course rejected out of hand. She wasn't in the least offended, and we launched into a very pleasant conversation about mousse...