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Creator of the Beehive Hairstyle Is Dead at 98

The woman behind the gravity-defying hairstyle that everyone -- including Debbie Harry, Barbra Streisand, Audrey Hepburn, Dolly Parton and Dusty Springfield -- once sported is no longer with us.

The Associated Press writes: 

Margaret Vinci Heldt, who became a hairstyling celebrity after she created the famous beehive hairdo in 1960, has died at age 98. Ahlgrim Funeral Home in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst said Monday that Heldt died Friday at a senior living community. The beehive — a tall, conical woman’s hairstyle — became a cultural phenomenon during the 1960s and evolved into a style worn for decades as Hollywood’s starlets walked red carpets. Heldt created it on the request of a hairstyling magazine that published images of it in February 1960 and called it “the beehive” because it resembles the shape of a traditional hive. “I have lived a charmed life,” Heldt said in a 2011 interview with The Associated Press. “The opportunities opened to me and I said, ‘Now it’s up to me. I have to make it work.'”

RIP. I wonder if they had to build a custom coffin for her?

Hat tip JMG..

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What died on this poor girl's head?