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Yusuke Suga, Japanese hair stylist who was well known in New York fashion circles.
Suga, as he was known professionally, was born in China, Suga came to the United States in 1965 and was a stylist at the Kenneth Salon in Manhattan for several years, before leaving to work on his own.
He gained recognition for his high-fashion hair styling for such magazines as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan. In 1972, he opened his own salon on East 70th Street and created the ''wedge'' haircut worn by the skater Dorothy Hamill in the Olympics. His clients included Candice Bergen, Lauren Hutton, Faye Dunaway and the designer Hanae Mori.
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