While most everyone is familiar with the afro, fewer may know the stylist credited with helping serve the hairstyle up for global admiration.
Hairstylist Camello “Frenchie” Casimir and model Audrey Smaltz attend the Alvin Ailey benefit at New York’s City Centre on May 12, 1976.With both his vision and panache, Frenchie stacked his list of A-list clients.
Smaltz was one of those working women who went to the stylist weekly, as well as for moments beyond the quotidian. “I got married in 1969 and Frenchie, of course, did my hair for the wedding. But then he brought curls, beautiful curls…and he put these curls attached to my head and he said, ‘Audrey don’t you take those curls off when you go to bed with your husband tonight, when you lay down honey you gon’ have all that hair,” Smaltz recalled. “Can you imagine? He was already thinking about how I should look in the bed with my husband. I mean this is who he was, he was hysterical.
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