Bangs, Bucks

[stylegurrl]

From New York metro.com:

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Bangs, Bucks
Hairstylist Sally Hershberger (she of the $600 cut) moves into the $1,000 jean business.

By Beth Landman
(Photo credit: Peter Berson)

Not content with $600 haircuts, Sally Hershberger—the L.A. hairdresser who threw New York’s tonsorial community into a tailspin last year when she opened a meatpacking-district salon and started charging twice as much as her Madison Avenue counterparts—is launching a line of jeans called Shagg. “You’ve got the hair, now you need the jeans,” says Hershberger, who plans to sell them in a shop near her salon by fall. “This is what celebrities want; we are obsessed with jeans.” Hershberger knows from celebrities: Meg Ryan, Claire Danes, Jane Fonda, and Jimmy Fallon are clients. Now she wants to capitalize on her own stardom. A contract with John Frieda (Hershberger is a creative director at the hair-care company and co-created its Sheer Blonde line) precludes her from starting a hair-product line right now, so she’s acquiring vintage Levi’s (these will retail for about $1,000) and making her own jeans from soft Japanese denim ($150). To try out designs, she’s sending both old and new to Tony Pacheco, at Dr. Blue Jeanns in the San Fernando Valley, who cuts out holes and alters them to hug the body. “He knows how to wreck them and drop the waist, but not so low that you see the crack,” she says. “All the celebrities will be wearing them.”



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[mikeijames]

...so she's just going to be re-selling vintage levi's is basically what i get from this blurb? oh yeah and starting yet another line of $150 plus jeans...there are so many little signs that the economy is on the up-and-up...

 

[Meg]

I find her annoying. She seems to think of herself as a celebrity and clearly that is the only clientele she is looking for (or possibly thinks by saying that she will draw others in?). Regardless, I'll wait until I see the jeans before I make a final decision. But vintage Levi's? It's called a thrift shop. Use it.

 

[brian]

 

[stylegurrl]

But vintage Levi's? It's called a thrift shop. Use it.

I agree 100%!