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Met Gala 2021: from Marilyn Monroe to Lauren Bacall, the great return of Old Hollywood hair looks

The Met Gala is the stage where serious glamor really takes place. And if at the highly anticipated event held at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, which this year had as its theme: “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion»There was the massive recovery of waves, in all their versions, applied to bobs, long hair and pixie cut, so it is appropriate to consider them trendy.

the waves alla Old Hollywood they have always been a must on the red carpet, as confirmed by stars of the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s and beyond, who drew on the usual inspirations from Marilyn Monroe, to Lauren Bacall, to Rita Hayworth.

It is always true that the style has a cyclical trend and certain hair styles return, both in the colors and in the hairstyles, but also in the details, from the rolled fringe of the 1940s Victory Girls, like the one reinterpreted by Kristen Stewart, to the micro and rounded by pin-ups like Betty Page, to Josephine Baker’s tirabaci, but the skill lies in reinterpreting them to make them current.

Billie Eilish’s retro look, evocative of Marilyn Monroe’s style but with the contemporary look of a Holiday Barbie, was a successful example of a revival of the classics with an exquisite combination of past and present, demonstrating that in this post-pandemic edition of the Met Ball there was so much need to breathe authentic glamor.

Icons like Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn have all been called upon to recreate looks with gentle and shiny waves.

Look at them in the gallery.

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