![]() ![]() Those images, etched into memory, still do, judging from this short list of hits that continue to influence his work. ”I’m a child of the generation where everyone would sit around and watch the premiere of a Janet Jackson video, and it would run your life for, like, a month,” Jawara says. ![]() With his younger sister, Candace, as a patient accomplice and muse, he began re-creating the power bobs and mile-long extensions seen on Missy Elliott, Lil’ Kim, and Christina Aguilera. “In the late ’90s, early 2000s, everything was controlled by the music videos: the way we dressed, the way we looked, the way we talked,” the hairstylist says of the collective fascination with MTV, VH1, and BET. While that dancehall backdrop set the tempo for carefree maximalism, it was a teenage move to another Jamaica-the neighborhood in Queens-that revved up Jawara’s creative pace. His hashtag on the post: #startedasabraider. ![]() If his career has taken him backstage at Chanel and Fendi during his years assisting Sam McKnight, and now on set with the likes of Solange, Dev Hynes, and Zendaya, those roots are never far. “That’s when I fell in love with all of it,” he explained in the November issue of Vogue, as part of a story spotlighting rising hairstylists who are reshaping the narrative around hair. If the visual inspiration was new, the hairstyling techniques went way back-to his aunt’s salon in Jamaica, where young Jawara got a hands-on education in over-the-top dancehall looks. A borrowed line from this year’s Migos track, “T-Shirt,” it was just the latest example of Jawara’s encyclopedic catalog of music video references that weave into his editorial work: in this case, the piled-on animal pelts, finger-wide twists, and statement shades worn by the hip-hop group. “Imma feed my family, ain’t no way around it,” the hairstylist Jawara recently captioned his Instagram post of the model Imaan Hammam, decked in a caramel-peach fur coat and a headful of his crisply executed cornrows. ![]()
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