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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rafael Behr

Hair by Observer, an occasional series

Only last Friday we brought you Jason Cowley's bad hair decade. What we failed to mention - because we didn't know it then - was that Phil Hogan would also be stalking the catwalk to memory lane in the Review section. We thought it a pity that readers online missed the photographic evidence of Phil's sartorial shame, and newspaper readers only saw it in black and white. So here are the pics in glorious technicolour.

The Observer, before you ask, has no plans to launch a fashion label. We did once brew up a perfume. Eau d'Observateur. Didn't take off. But if we get our hands on any more bad hair moments from Observer staff we'll let you know. Did Jay ever have a mullet? The readers have a right to be told.

Meanwhile, we are touched by the nice things that Pieman said about us and will do our best to bring you pictures in full of those newsroom food fights and spontaneous ceilidhs that break out from time to time.

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