For the love of hair

Over the course of thirty years, Dina was the star of hair stylists, the legendary coiffeuse of Consuelo Crespi, Anna Piaggi and Mina, and a magnet for artists, photographers and designers drawn to her original and inimitable imagination.

Born in the Emilian countryside, she starts working at the age of 10 as the piccinina (shop assistant) for the village hairdresser. As the 1950s draw to a close, she moves to Milan at the age of 17 to attend the Hairdresser Academy, and with her father’s he...