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Introducing 2019's Must-Have Haircut: The Fashion Troll

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From Esquire

Ah, fashion week. So hard to get right. Go too commercial, the frowgentsia call 'BORING'. Too abstract, they cry 'RIDICULOUS'. What's an impeccably dressed creative director to do?

During his brilliant A/W '19 menswear show in Paris - which took fifties-style suiting and deconstructed it several times over - designer Thom Browne found time to field the fashion week hairstyle to end all fashion week hairstyles. Presenting: the fashion troll.

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One part Dr. Seuss, two parts the chewed plastic eunuch on the end of your Year 4 pencil, Thom Browne's excellent, A/W '19 menswear show debuted coiffures that defied the laws of menswear and gravity as we know it. These feats of follicular engineering involved lots of hairspray, lots of boulder-jawed models and (probably) lots of hair extensions from far flung lands. And they were very, very fun.

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Photo credit: Getty Images

What better way to liven up the post-office drink than with an extra large '99 of human hair and Dax Wave and Groom? Think of the 2019 promotion prospects, too: what a fine head of hair, your line manager will say, get that man a pay rise: stat. Well-timed, as you'll probably need it to pay for the sundae-sculpting kit.

In a world of homogenous short-backs-and-sides, the fashion troll is the lid to give male grooming the shake up it needs in 2019. Coming to a barbershop window near you. Maybe.

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