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FANCIFUL HAIR creations
gave added shock value to a
fashionable fundraiser at the
Lions Gate Hospital, Saturday
before last.

By Layne Christensen
Fashion Reporter

Sharp Hair Design, a North
Vancouver salon, staged the event,
called “Culture Shock,” to raise
money for the Lions Gate Hospital
Foundation and to celebrate the
fourth anniversary of the salon’s
opening. ;

The idea of a charity hair show
was conceived at the salon’s annual
retreat at Whistler last October,
according to salon owner Sally
Duffy, whose team of talented styl-
ists coordinated the fashions and
styled the hair and makeup for the
runway show,

‘The four segments of the pre-
sentation portrayed hair and cos-
tume from different cultures —
First Nations, Greek, African and

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Spanish -— that have influenced
comtemporary fashions,

Frank Wells of the Lil’wat
nation (ML Currie) set the tone of
the first seament with his high-
voltage performance, in full
regalia, of a men's traditional
dance. His self-made ceremonial
costume comprised buckskin
fringed pants. bullet-shell breast-
plate. a fan tail of eagle feathers
and “roach,” or headdress, of por-
cupine hair.

Native-inspired designs by
Pamela Baker-Pack and Janice
Schneider highlighted the first seg-
ment.

Baker-Pack, who hopes to
attend the Otis Parsons School of
Fashion Design in Los Angeles,
and Schneider, who in August will
study at the Institute of American
Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New
Mexico, are both recent graduates
of Capilano College's textile arts
program. ;

Their hand-printed and appli:
queed fabrics in easy shapes and
soft desert colors made reference to

their native heritage.

Like a primitive wall painting,
buffaloes and hunters caced across
the buttery surface of a natural-
dyed silk noile vest by Schneider.
Another of her creations — a loose
fitting tunic in gold — was check-
ered with Aztec prints. Hair was
centre-parted and braided from
forehead to ends to form two ‘pig-
tails down the back.

To open the next segment, a
striking gladiator in white toga,
gold armbands and curly locks
crowned by a laurel wreath ushered
in a bevy of Greek goddesses car-
rying food for a feast of Dionysian
proportions.

Angelic curls, finger waves and
glossy ringlets were piled high atop
the head and, together with the
Mowing, chiffon wraps created by
Sharp staff, set the romantic tone of
the Greek segment.

For the African segment, the
models wore colorful fashions from
Lonsdale Quay’s Out of Africa
Global Culture and danced to the
soundtrack of Rain Man and the

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accompanying beat of a ceramic
Middle Eastern drum. Hair was
heavily gelled and heaped atop the
head with twisted ends spilling out
over a high knot like a waterfall.

For the finale, a dashing tore-
ador flirted with a coterie of
Carmens. Coiffures were sleek and
sultry, with finger waves and kiss
curls set with gel for a sophisticat-
ed wet look.

in a flurry of flamenco rutfles
and black lace, Latin dancers

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Nelson Moreira and his fiancee
Susanna Leite wrapped up the
Spanish section salsa-ing and
rumbi-ing to the frenzied beat of
the Gypsy Kings.

The auction which followed,
emeced by North Vancouver's
John Davis, president of the AG
Group, raised $2,500.

That amount, along with pro-
ceeds from the door, will benefit
the foundation once expenses have
been covered, said Duffy.

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