He later designed The Doors' Jim Morrison's free-flowing style. At Kirk Douglas's request, Sebring did the hairstyling for the movie Spartacus. He flew to Las Vegas every three weeks to cut the hair of Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. His hairstyling clients included Warren Beatty and Steve McQueen. In 1967 he opened the company Sebring International to franchise his salons and sell hair care products.Īt a time when barbers charged $1 to $2 for a haircut, Sebring charged $50 and more. He taught his methods to others who then opened Jay Sebring Salon franchises his styling techniques were still being taught 40 years after his death. In Los Angeles, his modish salon and his style of cutting hair proved popular. Kummer would rename himself after the Sebring International Raceway, after seeing images of it in a magazine. In turn, he introduced Kummer to Peter Lawford and Frank Sinatra. She told Vic Damone, who liked him enough to fly him to Las Vegas for a trim.
His breakthrough happened after meeting actress Barbara Luna at a party. He used hairspray in an era when Brylcreem was the accepted hair product for men. His innovations including shampooing men's hair before styling it, cutting their hair with scissors instead of clippers, and using blow dryers, which were popular in Europe but not well known in the United States. He promptly "invented a whole new way of cutting men's hair". Kummer cut hair for 13 hours a day, sleeping in the back, but was challenged by mounting costs. In Los Angeles, he graduated from beauty school and opened a shop on Fairfax Avenue, designing and building it for less than $500. In Las Vegas, on October 10, 1960, Sebring married model Bonnie Lee Marple, nicknamed Cami – a union which ended unofficially in August 1963. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he adopted the name "Jay Sebring": Jay, after the first initial of his middle name, and Sebring after the famous Florida car race. He grew up with one brother and two sisters in a middle-class home in Detroit, Michigan.Īfter graduating from Detroit Catholic Central in 1951, Sebring served in the Navy for four years, and during this time he fought in the Korean War. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Sebring was the son of an accountant, Bernard Kummer, and his wife, Margarette Gibb.
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