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State Library of New South Wales

Milena Kesic, The Leopard Lounge , 9/80 Wilson Street, 21 February 2013

a8817 Online No. 36

"My mother was a chef who always wanted to be a beautician and my father was a rocker."

This hairdresser's clients have included Geri Halliwell from the Spice Girls, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, roller derby girls and burlesque performers.

In August the Leopard Lounge gets busy setting victory curls for clients who attend the annual Fifties Fair held at Rose Seidler House, Sydney.

The 'victory roll' hairstyle, popular in the 1940s, was named after a fighter plane manoeuvre.