Elvis Presley	Little Richard

The Pompadour hairstyle, which takes its name from Madame de Pompadour, a famous favourite of King Louis XV of France who pioneered the style, was a major fashion trend in the 1950s, particularly among male rockabilly artists, and actors like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Little Richard, Marlon Brando (The Wild One) and James Dean (Rebel Without a Cause).

A pompadour is often created by combing the sides of the hair back, while fanning the top of the hair forward and curling over itself. There are numerous ways to sculpt a pompadour. Some only curl the front few inches of their hair up, while others comb their hair back and use their hands to "push" it into its desired place. Occasionally hair is kept relatively short and cut into the desired look, and pompadours are created through standing the hair straight up, retaining a "spiked" quality. Variations on the style range from a straight front to a more rounded and organic look. The quiff also exists.

In the late twentieth century, rockabilly revival musicians such as The Stray Cats with Brian Setzer, The Pole Cats, The Rockats and other musicians in the punk scene such as Pretenders bassist Pete Farndon, members of the band The Clash and Social Distortion were known for wearing this style at times. There are also Latin variants of the hair style more associated with European and Argentine tango fashion trends and occasionally with late twentieth century musical genres such rockabilly and country.

In recent years the pompadour style has been adopted by those enamoured with vintage culture of the late 1950s that includes antique cars, hot rods, American folk music, rockabilly bands, and Elvis Presley. The style has also enjoyed a revival among Hollywood's younger female stars like Reese Witherspoon and Hilary Duff.

In modern Japanese popular culture, the pompadour is a stereotypical hairstyle often worn by gang members, thugs, members of the yakuza, and other similar groups such as the yankii (high-school hoodlums). In Japan the style is known as the "Regent" hairstyle, and is often caricatured in various forms of entertainment media such as anime, manga, television, and music videos. The musical group Kishidan is known for their large "Regent" hairstyles.

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