The famous and renowned stylist Lluís Llongueras died this Monday at his home in Barcelona after a long battle against cancer, according to Spanish media such as ABC and Vanitatis.
Born in Esparraguera, Barcelona, Lluís Llongueras also developed as a sculptor, painter, writer and photographer. However, it was his crazy haircuts that launched him to fame.
He was a close collaborator of the painter Salvador Dalí, with whom he created an enormous wig that is currently on display at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueras.
Lluís styled personalities as diverse as Raquel Welch and Queen Sofía. He founded his own company, Llongueras, which came to have dozens of styling shops in Spain and the rest of Europe.
He had six children. With his first wife, Lolita Poveda, he had Esther, Adam, and Cristina, who died in 1991. Later, with Jocelyne Novell, he had two sons and one more daughter.
For several years he had been battling laryngeal cancer, a disease that finally took his life this Monday at the age of 87.