Truly amazing!!!
The work that goes on behind the scenes for runways, magazine editorials, and campaigns scattered across the most major cities around the world can easily be overlooked, and often is. But for hairstylist Jawara Wauchope — whether he's leading the team backstage for brands like Off-White and Mugler, or working with clients like Solange and Bella Hadid — his whimsical creations have a way of sticking in your mind forever.
"I feel like a lot of people have taken from the dancehall culture, with the sexy clothes and certain hairstyles, and never really gave credit to where they got their sources," Wauchope tells NYLON."I'm a big advocate of crediting your sources. A lot of my inspiration has come from Jamaican women. They are bold, avant-garde, and over-the-top. I loved seeing it growing up. Their hair was always very dramatic, matching their look; I reference a lot of that for the runway.
My parents were Reggae musicians, so there was a lot of traveling when I was younger. I was exposed to women being glam and always looking their best as a child. My aunts had a salon in Kingston, that's where I became obsessed with beauty and hair and just all things glamorous. So, a lot of the techniques, like the foundation of hairstyling, I definitely learned in Jamaica. Moving to Bedstuy, Brooklyn, and then to South Jamaica, Queens, showed me beauty from a different lens.
View this post on Instagram Silk Organza Ponytails for @Area SS 2020 styled by @clare_byrne makeup by #kankotakase casting by @johndavidpfeiffer Manicures by @naominailsnyc and Hair by me using @mrsmithhair #hairbyjawara @artpartner thank you so much for having and shout out to my amazing team on this #nyfw Your looks often go viral on social media, including the last two seasons in a row with the Area New York Fashion Week show.
Hair is a very personal thing. It's more personal than putting on clothes. It's an extension of yourself, whether it is your hair or not. I've become so cool with her that, whenever she's in a mood, I can kind of pick up the mood she's in and transcend it through hair. But if I get the vibe that a client is willing to try something different, try something new, change their look, [or] reinvent themselves? I'm all for that, too. And I take that, and I go with it.
Since being nominated in 2018 and 2019 by The British Fashion Council as a part of the New Wave of Creatives, what advice do you have for the next generation of hair artists?
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