Sarah Necia has created wigs for everyone from Dolly to Dita Von Teese.
Her work predominantly draws techniques and aesthetics from the period between the ’40s and the ’80s, a span of decades enveloping not just a golden era of Hollywood, but a golden age of hair. “Everything starts with a basic [roller] set,” she begins. “Out of any look, it could be contemporary, anything, it all [starts] with a really good, solid set… In hair, even the ’90s hair has a bit of ’60s influence. The [Pamela Anderson] is kind of a Bardot.
Sarah’s love affair with hair began when she started training at 16, but it was not always an easy ride – nor a straightforward career path. “I absolutely loved doing hair competitions, but I was just told that I didn’t fit the right vibe [for the industry].” She found herself unable to get jobs at traditional hairstylists because of her tattoos. “That’s how it was, not even that long ago – to me, coming from a small town. People were not into it.
Her ascent to the upper echelons of wigcraft is partly down to Dita. “She reached out to me on Instagram, and was like, ‘I love your work,’ she explains. “I was working at a hospital back then, with dementia patients, and I was on a 12-hour shift. She said, ‘Come to Milan.’ I had some savings from starting to do more wigs and hair, and [so I took] my last bit of them and I went to Milan to do the Mika show with Dita.” The rest, as they say, is history.
“I had done fashion week before, but she was the main [catalyst], and someone that had similar interests and [tastes.]” Since then Sarah’s talent and taste for vintage tresses have brought her into the orbit of a number of household names: Rita Ora, Alexa Demie, Aimee Lou Wood, Raye, and the inimitable Dolly Parton among them.
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