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A Look Back at Designing Women: Feeling the Love for Hair Stylists

By Katie Chambers

This week, we continue to reminisce about Designing Women’s past with photos, videos and anecdotes here on the NYWIFT blog while we gear up for this year’s event on June 13th! Now in its 17th year, Designing Women, co-presented by Variety, has become a staple of the NYC entertainment industry’s spring calendar, celebrating the creative alchemy of design, character and story…

After honoring costume designers annually starting in the year 2000 at what was then called Designing Hollywood, NYWIFT added a category for hair stylists in 2006. After all, hair literally – and figuratively – is what tops off a character’s look on screen!

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Glenn Close and Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction

Our very first hair stylist honoree was Lyndell Quiyou. Quiyou began her career in 1979 as hair stylist on 34 episodes of the TV series Ryan’s Hope (according to IMDB). She went on to work on hits including The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction, Big and Chicago. In addition to designing hair and wigs for productions as a whole, Quiyou also specializes in being the stylist for individual star cast members. Collaborators have included Richard Gere (whom she styled in 14 films), Madonna, Sean Connery, Juliette Binoche, Renee Zellweger and Julia Roberts.

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Quiyou and Roberts on the NYWIFT red carpet

America’s sweetheart herself Julia Roberts presented the Designing Hollywood award to Quiyou, her hair stylist on a whopping 14 feature films to date, including Conspiracy Theory, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Notting Hill, Mona Lisa Smile and August: Osage County.

One of the marked characteristics of every year’s Designing Women ceremony is the palpable warmth between the presenters and the honorees. The relationship between stylist and actor is an intimate one, and Designing Women allows attendees a glimpse into that special collaboration. You can see it in the photos of Quiyou and Roberts captured by Getty:

Julia Roberts and Lyndell Quiyou, honoree

You could also feel it last year, when Boardwalk Empire star Gretchen Mol presented the award to hair stylist Francesca Paris, who, in addition to Boardwalk, has worked on The Sixth Sense, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and A League of Their Own. Mol and Paris both paid tribute to “Lola,” the affectionately named wig Paris designed for Mol’s character Gillian Darmody. Mol relied on “Lola” for protection during nude scenes – Paris added secret hair extensions to cover certain key anatomical features whenever Mol’s clothes came off.

You can watch the presentation to Francesca Paris, including the highlight reel, here:

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Next week we will crown our next Designing Women Hair Stylist honoree: Rose Chatterton, known for her work on Shades of Blue, The Good Wife, The Knick and It’s Complicated, to name a few. Shades of Blue star Ray Liotta will present her award.

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Ray Liotta in Shades of Blue

Join us! Buy your tickets for Designing Women – June 13th at 7 PM at the CUNY Graduate Center. $75 for NYWIFT members; $150 for nonmembers.

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Katie Chambers

Katie Chambers Katie Chambers is the Senior Director of Community & Public Relations at New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT). She also serves as the Communications Chair of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs and is a freelance writer, copyeditor, and digital marketing strategist. Follow her @KatieGChambers.

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Jilly Cowley

My name is Jill Murray and I was an apprentice with Lyndell Quiyou at John of Mayfair in London in 1962 and I would LOVE to get in touch with her…..if anyone knows how please look me up under the name of Jilly Cowley….

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