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Style icons are iconic for a reason—their images, hair, clothes and very existence seem to transcend the logic of time and the finality of their lifespans. 

And so they resurface, again and again, inspiring and re-inspiring, the looks modernized and tweaked but forever bringing to mind those who started it all. And so there is the rockabilly and the pompadour and the men who made the styles eternal: James Dean and Elvis Presley.

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