Wolfcut: This haircut will not make it past the borders of Berlin | EUROtoday

Hairstyles as an ideological assertion appear to be the most recent accent. That’s why you are now seeing extra younger folks with mullets in Berlin. Especially on the Mehringdamm subway platform, the place you watch for twelve minutes within the morning for the U6, along with all of the folks from Kreuzberg and Neukölln who go to the HU to review gender research between the anti-Semitic Hamas triangles on the partitions and pro-Palestine flags .

Her hair is closely layered as much as about her shoulders, quick on the entrance and lengthy on the again. But the younger ladies and men do not prefer it as unkempt as you’d count on from the 80s mullet. Hair masks and conditioners guarantee shine, precision chopping requires common hairdresser appointments. What tries to promote itself as “undone” is definitely calculated and bourgeoisly correct.

Anyone who will get misplaced in a TikTok rabbit gap will shortly come throughout directions for this haircut, which, it appears, prices one other piece of attractiveness with every step. There the mullet additionally received a brand new identify: #wolfcut. This is the code that leftists name on the hairdresser in Friedrichshain, in order that they will then go away the salon with nothing apart from a mullet, then publish a selfie of themselves and tag it #wolfcut, which implies that the reduce has now unfold epidemically. For males, he was christened Mullet, which seems to be as disagreeable because it sounds.

A number of celebrities additionally come dangerously near the #wolfcut with their coiffure, together with “I can buy myself flowers” ​​“feminist” Miley Cyrus and the Spanish indie actress Jenny Ortega. Recently even Heidi Klum at a present by the style label Vetements (aesthetically one thing just like the Berlin model of Balenciaga) throughout Paris Fashion Week, apparently a little bit too impressed by her twin brother-in-law Bill Kaulitz. Shortly thereafter, she returned to the Hollywood mane. And but: simply the concept this reduce will now turn into socially acceptable outdoors of Berlin is horrible sufficient.

But as at all times, when Berlin sells one thing as a development, it typically stays precisely that: a neighborhood phenomenon. No matter how loudly town howls, the Wolfcut stays largely unheard out on this planet. While in Berlin the ideological perspective expresses itself in dangerous style (inside and outside), the streets of Paris, Milan and Hamburg are spared. Style cultures are inherently resistant to aesthetic decline. And so, luckily, a non-representative area research in Paris has simply confirmed: not a single wolfcut, not a mullet wherever.

Maria-Antonia Gerstmeyer writes about fashion at WELT. She was born and grew up in Berlin.