Beginning!

Let's talk about the one that queens had to take off their crowns before... Cierplikowski Antoni. Born one hundred and twenty years ago, on the Polish soil, then partitioned between Russia, Germany and Austria. Thanks to the will to create, uncanny sense of beauty and hard work, he had conquered the hearts of Paris, United States and finally, the world. All women loved him, he was a patron of arts (painting, sculpture) and was the first one to raise hairstyling to an art form. He became a "a hairdresser of kings, a king of hairdressers". He ruled the fashion world for the larger part of the twentieth century. Now, with the turn of the next century, sadly, only an elite of hairdressers and a few not connected with the trade, remember. Slowly, people who met him pass away, and most of memorabilia are lost. Thankfully, there is internet! It is full of documents, photos and memoirs of Cierplikowski. As the king cannot be forgotten, his reign erased - and there were ones who tried, this blog, together with an official fanpage on Facebook, will assume a role of an "Internet Museum". I will present, describe and analyse quotes, photos and anecdotes found in the web and private collections. It is the door to the great adventure that begins in the 1920's, when makeup, wig design, tailoring and hairdressing achieved greatest success - Adam Krupiński (tłumaczenie Paweł Chełchowski)

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