We have three salons, one in Port Street, Belgravia, one at the Bulgari Hotel and one
in St. Barthes.
We are quite privileged to be working in fashion weeks in London, Singapore, New York.
We also do quite a lot of editorial.
We are very privileged to be able to work with a fantastic artist, I would call them,
because they are really, really at the best in their sectors.
We do have a very strong colour department, same time downstairs, which is referring to
our basement department, where is the colour department.
There is also a group of people that are incredibly talented and incredibly experimental
for new techniques that only like the best and like to achieve the best results.
The collaboration between stylist and hairdressers, it's paramount that the look has to be as
artistic and as commercial as possible.
I believe that now between hairstylists and designers becoming more a collaboration in
how to create a hair look, because at the end of the day is the things that finish the
complete, the dream design when they walk down the catwalk.
And for this we have a fabulous guy called Stephen Lloyd that is heading all this for
us, for Neville.
I mean the hair helps to create character of the girl, the boy, whatever you're doing.
So it's not only just the, you know, with the clothes, the hair actually helps finish
off the look, if the hair is not right then you don't get the sense of who that person
is and you know what you're trying to portray.
We are the only salon and the hairdressing salon in London that has been able to participate
to a full fashion week.
The difference between us and other session stylists is that we are providing the full
team.
We give the power back to the salon, which I believe is very important.
People that see clients and see the needs of commercial needs every day are able to
work into something artistic and manageable and more modern than others that only do sessions,
I believe.
So if you think that our team will do something like a client's every half an hour, the ability
of being fast backstage was supposed to be one of the main points why we wanted to try.
I think the difference between salon and session is, I tell you, there's sometimes a lot to
do with product knowledge, different products creating different looks, different types
of texture, salon work, you're constantly trying to just make someone look beautiful.
So it's about creating, bringing out the best in that person, whereas in the fashion side
you're creating an image of something to inspire people.
Steven has the quality of listening and understanding very well what the designer wants.
He asks, he wants to know what the collection is all about, he wants to know the feel of
it.
It's about how the inspiration came across to be able to deliver the best hairdo that
they want.
Most of the time the designer has an idea of what the look is going to be, but sometimes
it doesn't really work when you're doing it on a model or sometimes the neck is too
high for the hair and the result is different kind of thing.
So the collaboration between the two, the stylist and the designer, has to be a kind
of a union of ideas.
I think it's knowledge, knowledge of like knowledge of eras, knowledge of hairstyles
through the eras, knowledge of your product of how to create something different, how
to create something new.
It's just basic, just knowledge in every way, you need to know your knowledge in fashion
as well as what was fashionable in hair at that time.
When in Singapore we had the chance of being part of the men's collection, women's collection
and contour collection.
We managed to do the 11 days, 4 shows a day, 25 modeling shows.
We loved every minute of it.
We all lost a lot of weight by the time the end of it, but it was an incredible experience.
We met some fantastic people.
In Singapore, an amazing experience, slightly different to other fashion weeks we've done
because different in the way because we had, you know, if we'd done three or four shows
in a day, if we would be in Paris or somewhere, we would do the show in a different location.
So you'd go from one location to another, so you'd finish one show and then start another
show.
In Singapore, where we had three or four shows in a day, it was all in the same location
and all in a way happening at the same time.
So you had to think about three or four shows all at once, so you'd start on one, but before
you'd finish on one, you'd already be starting on the next, so you'd have so many looks that
you're actually preparing in your head in advance and it all sort of happening at the
same time.
So there's a lot more to think about, but it was a great experience.
I think I'm going to still grow pay as the best show for me because the hair is incredible
for us.
I think it was part of a hair show, really, and the clothes were incredible and we got
to do some stuff and showcase what we can do as a hair salon as a team, as a small team
that went out there to actually achieve this and this sort of show, which is usually done
by a team of maybe 30 hairdressers, and we had 20 models between five of us in an hour
and a half, two hours.
It was a great achievement and I think we were proud of ourselves and incredible.
Each designer had an amazing look for their collection, so each one stood out for a different
reason.
Through my experience in fashion weeks, you get used to working with lots of different
hair types and I think that's the theme.
You have to know how to deal with each different hair type, you know, you've mainly to use
a different product on a different type of hair to what you was actually prepared to
use beforehand, so you just have to really know your stuff and be really experienced
at what you're doing so you know how to create the look you want to work on.
Lee Sambon, I believe he's a Korean designer and we had quite a bit of fun because before
this whole process, before this whole show season started, I was quite, Stephen and I
were quite excited about doing folds and we were just talking, when we were doing our
prep days and our practice days with the team, we were just talking about, oh, it would be
nice to be doing folds and it just so happens that when we got there, one of the designers
did actually want folds in the hair and we had to use loads and loads and loads of mousse
to get the hair to almost like a real silky, almost like kind of snake skin texture, so
it really moulds in 20 shape that you want.
We'd flatten that into the head and then we'd create these little delicate folds at
the back of the head, just at the back behind the fold of the head and yeah, it took a little
bit to do but it was really fun and really challenging and it was, yeah, and it was well
executed in the end, I believe, it was fun.
First of all, we met at the Singapore Fashion Week.
We met in a new city where new energy was born.
We became partners and decided to work together in New York.
That's how we met.
I think that's how we met in Singapore.
We met in Singapore to create a world where we can move together.
We needed to create a fashion world together.
Let's get started.
My team is absolutely superb.
They did everything easy.
There was not a prima donna or nobody that made any fuss.
I had to say I'm one of the luckiest girls in town to have such a great team.
You have time limits on clients.
It's about bringing everyone together and sharing the knowledge between people.
Everyone producing the best work they can.
It's always been the same from salon to session.
It's bringing that out in people.
I think since fashion I've changed a lot.
My hair is taking a predominant part into a fashion shoot and into a fashion show.
It's a finished look.
It's something that is the only fashion statement that you cannot get rid of
even when you go to bed or in the shower.
It's something that is becoming part of a woman's life 200%.
So it's something that has given you confidence, has to be the right colour,
has to be the right shape, has to be the right things to fit into your life.
Haircuts become the new facelift.
A good set of, you know, a good mane of hair makes all the difference.
Makes you look younger, makes you look funkier.
That's where you want to be. You can be just with a blow dry or a hairdo.
I ain't gonna stop until it's over there.
