I don’t like the idea of romanticizing a social class.
That change of cultural perspective was experienced by Berrocal when she returned from her stay in Rome: “I realized that here the mullet had that connotation. But in countries like Spain, she says, it is often associated with marginalized social groups. Fashion has reappropriated it as a form of mockery and reduction of power,” the sociologist, gender and diversity consultant and social researcher Marina López Baena told this newspaper. In the United States the return of the mullet in recent years has been associated “ with Trumpism and the vindication of the redneck lifestyle. It’s funny because I’ve always thought it was an ugly cut, but you get used to it until you eventually come to like it.” René Zamudio, designer, stylist and creative thesis director at the European Institute of Design (IED) in Barcelona, agrees: “I myself wore it at the end of the 1970s when, with Bowie, it was extrapolated to the world of fashion. But if there is one thing about this haircut, as stylist Guido Palau, creator of the hairstyles that dominated Alexander McQueen’s spring 2022 fashion show, pointed out to The New York Times, it is that it has always “provoked such strong reactions because it refuses to be just one thing, it is somewhere between long and short, masculine and feminine, tasteful and tacky.” Now they do it with scissors but I still wear it.” Scarlett Johansson in 2003.įor Berrocal, the mullet is glam and 1980s, an element of her image, in which her big aviator glasses and vintage shirts also evoke that era. “There they used to cut it very well, with a razor, which made it more uneven. “I had never had much sensitivity for aesthetics, but living with fashion people and being in Rome, which breathes aesthetics everywhere, I sought a change.” She asked for advice from a fellow designer, whose taste is “very Italian and sophisticated,” and she suggested doing something “Bowie-like” with her hair. She’s had this cut for three years, and the first time she had it done, in 2019, was in Rome while doing her artistic internship at the Academy of Spain. “I hadn’t thought about why I wear it until you asked me the question,” the illustrator and comic book artist Carla Berrocal admits over the phone. Searches for inspirational images about mullets on the platform increased 190% over the previous year. In its 2022 predictions report, Pinterest filed it under “rebel cuts” as one of the most buzzed-about hairstyles among Generation Z. In 2022, social media apps like TikTok are a cause in themselves: the challenge #oneminutemullet, in which users cut their own hair with kitchen scissors, has accumulated 92.8 million views.ĭating back to Egypt and Greece, where it was worn by warriors taking advantage of the visibility of short bangs and the protection from the sun of the longer shag, and immortalized by the Beastie Boys in the 1994 song Mullethead, there is no single cause behind the new trend. Sometimes it is just an aesthetic decision, other times it’s political or about music.
But in recent decades it has been mutating. Throughout history, the “business in the front, party in the back” look has been popularized by groups as opposed as American rednecks and queers in the 1970s and 1980s.
What this motley list of names has in common is a haircut: the mullet. The rapper Lil Nas X and the singer of Amyl and the Sniffers. The young Spanish singer-songwriter Natalia Lacunza. Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter of Kamala Harris, parading for Proenza Schouler.
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