Eponymous hairstyle

[1] Eighty years later, the term was still part of fashion's lexicon: "With her trademark Louise Brooks bob ... Jean Muir built a career as one of Britain's greatest designers.

However, although never strictly eponymous, Hepburn's hairstyles - especially those in the films Sabrina (1954) (short with a fringe, or "bangs", across the forehead) and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (pulled back and gently piled up around the crown) have been widely copied.

The social historian Dominic Sandbrook wrote of "black-jersied gamines with Audrey Hepburn hairdos" presiding over British coffee bars in the mid-1950s.

Fonda's style, which was also captured in photographs following her arrest for allegedly assaulting a police officer at Cleveland airport in 1970, was sometimes - even 30 years later - referred to as the "Klute shag".

A famous example of this phenomenon was the feathered hairstyle of Farrah Fawcett,[8] as seen in the American television series Charlie's Angels and her popular red swimsuit pin-up poster in the 1970s.

Imitation of such styles can sometimes be attributed to what became known in the 1980s as the "wannabe" effect, a term used particularly with reference to young women who wished to emulate (i.e. "wanna be" like) the American singer Madonna.

A 2010 study of British women found that half took a copy of a celebrity's photograph to their salons to obtain a similar hairstyle.

[10] In 2009, the most requested hairstyle for women was the "Textured and Tousled, or Curled and Swirled" long, blonde "Gossip Girl Look" done by actress Blake Lively.

The 9th-century Islamic trend-setter Ziryab is said to have popularized a shorter male hairstyle in Cordoba, with bangs down to the eyebrows and straight across the forehead, and leaving the neck and ears uncovered.

[16] Examples included the large muttonchop sideburns popularised by Ambrose Burnside, and variants of the full beard named after Verdi and Garibaldi.

The style worked equally well for both young and older men alike, and Clooney's distinguished salt and pepper color became very popular.