The Observer's[/Barneys'] Simon Doonan says the afro is the hot summer hairstyle. He also contemplates another Manhattan variant: "Re Jewfros: Imagine if all the Jewish girls in Manhattan ditched the pricey, follicle-shriveling blowouts to which they have submitted for a solid decade and grew a Jewfro this summer as per [hairstylist] Edris? Don't laugh! It s not as ludicrous as it sounds. The ass-kicking Cleopatra Jones tough chic of an Afro is certainly more assonant with, for example, Hamptons correspondent Lizzie Grubman s persona than her current, uber-Nordic, ultra-blond, little-girl-lost look."
Head trip! The afro is back: calling all curly girls [Observer]