Carrie White, Hollywood Hairdresser to the Stars, Dies at 78

The celeb stylist labored on 'Shampoo' and her memoir, 'Higher Lower,' is being made right into a film.

Hollywood hairdresser Carrie White, who famously minimize hair for prime Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies stars like Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley, has died. She was 78 years outdated.

White handed away in Los Angeles on Might 3, longtime good friend and jewellery designer Loree Rodkin informed The Hollywood Reporter. No reason behind loss of life was given.

One of the sought-after celeb stylists, White wrote a memoir, Higher Lower: Highlights of My Hollywood Life, which Ambiance Leisure is growing right into a film.

Born on August 25, 1943, in Hollywood, White graduated from Hollywood Excessive and broke right into a world of hairdressing dominated by males like Jon Peters and Vidal Sassoon. She was a technical advisor on the film Shampoo and gave David Bowie placing orange hair in The Man Who Fell to Earth.

White additionally styled the hair of Sharon Tate, Vanessa Redgrave, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn, and designed Louise Fletcher’s hair to be reworked into Nurse Ratched within the 1975 basic drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

She additionally labored with celebrated celeb photographers like Melvin Sokolsky, a star shooter for Harper’s Bazaar, Richard Avedon, Norman Parkinson and Bert Stern. Her hairdressing purchasers included Yardley of London, whereas her hairstyling work additionally appeared in magazines like Vogue, In Type, Attract,Self-importance Truthful and Glamour.

White was additionally CEO of Carrie White Hair in Beverly Hills.

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