Julien Farel’s Latest York flagship Restore Salon and Spa has absorbed 40 employees from Salon Yoshiko, which occupied the penthouse ninth level of Bergdorf Goodman and closed July 3.

Among the many 10,000-square-foot salon’s latest recruits are Kenji Ishimoto, Luis Perez, Stefanie Francois, William Simon and Farel’s newly appointed color director, Parvin Klein.

“After I discovered [Salon Yoshiko] was closing, my first thought was to achieve out and see in the event that they were OK — it was a shock,” said Farel, who worked at Bergdorf’s beauty salon himself in 1993 when it was a Fekkai Salon, where he met Klein.

The staff merger took effect Wednesday.

To accommodate the expansion, latest sinks and styling stations have been added to Farel’s Loews Regency Hotel flagship, totaling 17 and 38, respectively.

Farel said business of late has exceeded pre-pandemic levels, with 2022 being the salon’s biggest yr so far.

“We bounce back slowly by constructing — not attempting to run too fast,” said Farel, who opened a salon in Palm Beach, Florida, last September, and is seeking to grow distribution of his namesake hair care line.

Salon Yoshiko opened at Bergdorf’s in 2019, and counted 52 employees on the time of its closure. Before that, the ninth floor salon was run by John Barrett.

A press release provided to WWD in June said, “Yoshiko and Bergdorf Goodman mutually got here to the choice to shut the salon. There aren’t any immediate plans for the salon space at Bergdorf Goodman.”

Julien Farel Restore & Spa counts Brooke Shields, Olivia Palermo and Uma Thurman amongst its clientele, and adds Martha Stewart and Hillary Clinton with this staff expansion.

This August, Farel and his team will once more serve because the official hairstylists of the U.S. Open, operating a pop-up for tennis players throughout the grounds for the fifteenth consecutive yr.