Orrazkerak, Haircuts, Friseur
Ainara Garcia

Presentation at Marcial Muñoz Hairdresser's
10th June 2002

The designer and artist Ainara García is presenting the fanzine Orrazkerak, Haircuts, Friseur, a compilation of haircuts sported by young Basques during the last few decades. Youth styles and subcultures: from the Radical Basque Rock movement and its various crosscurrents and hybrids (punk, reggae, skinhead, "borroka", etcetera) to the aesthetic evolution of these styles in the current punk fashion revival.

Ainara García goes back to the explosion of Punk in what was known as the Radical Basque Rock phenomenon at the beginning of the eighties. This was when the aesthetic approach of revolutionary youth began to acquire a style of its own that has constantly evolved and been readapted right up to the present day.
Conceived as a catalogue of haircuts for hairdresser's and youth clubs, the magazine mixes contemporary images with loaned period photos and enlarged details from other fanzines.

Ainara García's work revolves around the relations between fashion, styles and identity-based subcultures, and constantly shifts from fashion to art and vice-versa. Her best-known work is as a designer of t-shirts, skirts and belts with the names of villages in the Basque provinces printed in silk screen ink.
At the moment she is working on recycling iconography based on Basque folklore.

She chose to present this fanzine in San Sebastián at the Marcial Muñoz hairdressing salon who improvised a haircut inspired by the pictures in the fanzine.

pict1.jpg Hairstyle 21K pict2.jpg Haircut Fanzine 13K pict3.jpg At the hairdresser’s * 17K pict4.jpg At the hairdresser’s * 17K pict5.jpg At the hairdresser’s * 17K

* Foto Pernan Goñi