Anthony Powell. Glenn Close specified Huntley as her hair stylist in all her contracts. He also made the original wigs for the New York productions of Cats, Les Miserables and An Inspector Calls, in which he fashioned an Edwardian styling for Siân Phillips.
Huntley identified his celebrity clients by the circumference of their heads as much as their features: he reported that Glenn Close’s head measured 22 in, Mae West’s 20¼ and Barbra Streisand’s 21 (the average female head is 21½).
He also created beehive wigs “like, 20 inches high” for the singer Dusty Springfield. In 2002 his work on a Broadway revival of Hairspray, which called for more than 100 wigs made of human and synthetic hair, propelled techniques like “ratting” (to add volume.
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