US film director David Lynch poses during an interview at Rome's Parco Della Musica auditorium on January 13, 2006. Lynch had a very unique look, despite his dressing being bland. Photo: AFP
A conjurer of cinematic dreamscapes that bordered on nightmare, a creator of images that burned themselves onto the back of one’s eyelids, director (and actor, musician and artist) David Lynch cut an indelible figure himself.
Most notably there was his hair. Lavishly thick, swooping skyward in a cartoon volute, Lynch’s coiffure, a virile cockscomb, was like Alfred Hitchcock’s profile or John Ford’s eye patch – inherently caricatural and so distinctive that it all but merited a zip code.
