Is there anyone better than Monica Vitti to make us reconsider the rules of modern beach hair? Trekking around the shores of the Aeolian Islands in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 film masterpiece L’Avventura, she eschews lank, air-dried waves for a windswept, bouncy blonde bob as relentlessly voluptuous as her pillowy lips. Throughout the rest of the decade—as Antonioni’s lover and muse—the hair remained glamorous, the mystery firmly intact. Captured here outdoors at the height of her beauty in 1965, she’s a study in self-possessed bombshell sensuality that somehow feels fresh again in its willful femininity, its unself-conscious acknowledgement of having made the effort. Hot rollers, a hairbrush, and liquid liner for the beach? A million times yes.
#TBT: Why Monica Vitti Is Today's Summer Hair Muse
The 1960s Italian film star Monica Vitti makes a case for making the effort.
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