The new Davines color Collection, “The fierce child”, is the result of an innovative project created by the
two stylists, Tim Hartley and Kiyoshi Inoue, inspired by the art of Jean Michel Basquiat and Nicholas
Taylor, exponents of the avant-garde, artistic, New York band “Gray”, between the end of the seventies
and the beginning of the eighties. The result is a happy synthesis between Hartley’s now famous stylistic
depth and Inoue’s fresh, bold approach, with a visual intensity rarely achieved through hairdressing.
Drawing inspiration from a series of photographic portraits of Basquiat taken by Taylor, the stylists have
extracted the character of expressive intensity, giving life to an exceptional sequence of images in balance
between abstract minimalism and clear artistic vision. The sense of fragmentariness and depth of
matter is recognized in the complex inner geometries of the cut, in structures which permit the hair to
achieve a precise texture. The image fully reflects the same dynamic tension, in contrast with the softness
of the subjects. However, it is primarily through the use of color that the Collection fully expresses its experimental
character, setting off the purity and sharpness of the forms with touches of transparency and
shininess. In fact, all is entirely based on the use of blondes (in a palette obtained with the new Davines
Mask CPS Extra Lifts series 11 and 12) to obtain luminous ageless effects, almost sidereal.
