Photo: Courtesy of Christiane Mack1/14Christiane Mack, Head of Content Strategy and Operations at Condé Nast:"After a decade of Laura Ingalls Wilder-esque braids, this was my first real hair style, and thanks in part to the wonders of adolescent hair texture, I worked it for a full year. My mother's inspiration was part Vidal Sassoon pixie and part Dorothy Hamill wedge, but it was all grown up to my 12-year-old self. It didn't hurt that I had a crush on the suave and groovy Steve, my first real stylist, who looked like he walked straight off the set of Shampoo."
Photo: Courtesy of Alessandra Codinha2/14Alessandra Codinha, Vogue.com Culture Editor:"Most of my young life, it was a real mushroom cut, banged and brief. It was fluffier than Charlee Fraser's bob, but I think that was the intended look. When I needed it cut, my mother would take me to a very nice barber in Beacon Hill, where we lived. I haven't cut it north of my collarbone since. Maybe no time like the present?"
Photo: Courtesy of Alexandra Macon3/14Alexandra Macon, Vogue.com Contributing Editor:“I wouldn’t let my mom brush my hair, so this is what happened.”
Photo: Courtesy of Alexis Tiganila4/14Alexis Tiganila, Vogue.com Designer"My mom is from Eastern Europe, and I remember she used to send me to school in fashions that weren’t yet hot on the American children's market. I often had to explain myself to the kids in school."
Photo: Courtesy of Anny Choi5/14Anny Choi, Vogue.com Associate Market Editor:"Here I am, 3 years old with the perfect Wang bowl cut. No idea why my parents gave me this haircut, but I guess this is what was trending back then (even in Korea!) and what is trending again now!"
Photo: Courtesy of Arden Fanning6/14Arden Fanning, Vogue.com Contributing Editor:"Forever looking to my older brothers for style inspiration, I lurked to the living room with a pair of scissors and gave myself [left] this multi-tier boy cut in mere minutes. I then stuck my head, and the fallen hair evidence, between the couch cushions, hoping it would grow back before anyone found me."
Photo: Courtesy of Catherine Piercy7/14Catherine Piercy, Vogue.com Beauty Director:"Traumatized, as you can see in this photo, taken with my big sister. Until, you know, I went and intentionally got this exact same haircut in my 20s!"
Photo: Courtesy of Daise Bedolla8/14Daise Bedolla, Vogue.com Editorial Producer"My parents loved giving me short haircuts more than anything. One of my earliest memories is being dropped off at my kindergarten center the day after I got a bowl cut and crying hysterically as my mom left. To this day, I think I might still be scarred from the experience—maybe that explains my fear of hair stylists? Not sure even Alexander Wang could convince me otherwise."
Photo: Courtesy of Helena Suric9/14Helena Suric, Vogue Bookings Director:"I’m not sure I was old enough to know better, but per my mom my hair was an uncomb-able tangled mass and this bowl cut was the best we could make of it. We lived on the Adriatic Sea in Croatia, so we attributed the messy mane to sand, sea salt, and sun. Mom is now quite smug for being ahead of her time!"
Photo: Courtesy of Lucie Zhang10/14Lucie Zhang, Vogue.com Social Media Manager:"Nina Milner's cut in Look 3 on the Wang runway definitely looked familiar–if only I was cool enough to have bleached my hair as well. I'm pretty sure my dad gave me this cut when I was 2."
Photo: Courtesy of Mark Guiducci11/14Mark Guiducci, Vogue Arts Editor:"If I'm more Nina Milner or Catherine McNeil in this picture. I'm leaning toward McNeil."
Photo: Courtesy of Maya Singer12/14Maya Singer, Vogue.com Contributing Editor"Until I was seven, my hair was long. My mom got sick of brushing and braiding it daily, so one morning, before school, she put a bowl on my head and chopped. 'Like Dorothy Hamill,' she said. I ran into my room, locked the door, and refused to come out for, I don't know, it felt like a week? Many bitter tears shed over that haircut. Looking back, the getting sick of brushing/braiding must have coincided with the final month of her pregnancy with my little brother, Michael, because that haircut was still painfully new to me when he came home from the hospital, which was the day this photo was taken."
Photo: Courtesy of Laura Regensdorf13/14Laura Regensdorf, Vogue Beauty Editor:"This dreamscape Olan Mills portrait captures my older sister, Sarah, and me at peak matchy-matchy, bowl cuts and all. Looking back, she admits she might have had a, shall we say, advisory role in my short bangs. She took her job as my keeper and protector (and occasional hairstylist) very seriously, then as now."
Photo: Courtesy of Sophia Li14/14Sophia Li, Vogue.com Entertainment Media Editor:"Oh gosh—never thought this would see the light of day, but undeniably Wang. Baby fat and bowl cuts: I thought they went hand in hand."
