![]() Then he takes his place in the first chair on the left, where Diego is waiting.Ī touch of TIGI gel. He always talks to the other customers, dispensing business advice here and there. Sometimes, if Diego is finishing another client, Haft has to wait a few minutes. ![]() Back to the sinks, where Tony and Guy's TIGI shampoo is applied and rinsed. Then he walks past the mirrors, where a hundred heads of Haft hair bounce across the salon. Off comes the jacket and on goes the gray salon wrap. The driver waits while Haft begins the ritual. "I always definitely make room for him," says Diego. Haft calls from his car phone about a half-hour before he comes in. He just styled a photo shoot for Club Zei and a video for MTV. He cuts tennis player Aaron Krickstein's and Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason's hair. He does hair for models and rich college girls from New York. His hair has the deliberately unkempt look of the aggressively hip. No one looks more than 30 years old.ĭiego is wearing a black T-shirt and olive pants. Blow-dryers, progressive music and giggling attendants all compete for attention. Across from the Super Crown books, which he owns, and near the Trak Auto, which he owns, sits the Echo Hair Salon, which Diego owns.Įverything in the mirror-lined salon is black and white, including the clothes on the hairdressers. Once a week, Haft's limo glides up Rockville Pike and turns right into White Flint Plaza, which he owns. "He really does."Īh, but isn't some of the credit yours, Diego? "He has brilliant hair," says Diego, carefully preserving barber-client privilege. Which brings us to Diego Paez: Herbert Haft's hairdresser. You wonder if he's reincarnated from 18th-century France, where social status was determined by the height of the perfect, powdered wigs - hence the word "bigwig." If his dreams are filled with images of snowcapped Mount Fuji or the foam atop a $5 cappuccino in Piazza Navona. You wonder if, as with Samson, it's the secret to Haft's success. You should be thinking about money and morality and a family splitting apart, but you're hypnotized by that mile-high white crown of hair. ![]() You watch Herbert Haft sitting in District of Columbia Superior Court.
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