Hair Legend Sam McKnight's New Book Spotlights a Career Alongside Kate Moss, Karl Lagerfeld, and Princess Diana

Once someone lands in the stratosphere of their career--in Sam McKnight's case, among the editorial hair legends in the fashion world today--it's easy to forget what it took to get there. "It seems strange that I actually fell into hairstyling by accident. I should have been teaching French to 10-year-olds," he writes in his new book, Hair by Sam McKnight. Uninspired by the hippie scene on his college campus in the 1970s, he found an escape by way of his friends' salon, Josef, where he got his s...