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13 Jul

The Bergdorf Goodman Salon Staff Are Headed to Julien

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...
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4 Jul

Joanna Vargas Opens Recent L.A. Salon – WWD

Joanna Vargas opens a recent, stand-alone salon on Tuesday in Los Angeles. “In search of an area took probably a few 12 months, and construction has been eight months,” said the celebrity facialist, who’s closed the doors of her spa contained in the Sunset Tower Hotel after five years. “In Los Angeles, as you recognize, you've got to be obsessive about, ‘OK, where’s everybody going to park?’ And ‘What’s the neighborhood like?’” Vargas continued. She landed on central and buzzy West Hollywood; at roughly 5,000 square feet, the brand new salon is at 1107 North Kings Road. With high-vaulted ceilings, it occupies a constructing that was once a theater. It’s larger than her old space, which attracted about 50 customers a day. “Business has...
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14 May

My Salon Suite to Award $30,000 In Scholarships to

My Salon Suite is seeking to support the following generation of beauty professionals. The coworking-style salon space has partnered with The Skilled Beauty Association to award five $1,000 scholarships to students all in favour of obtaining licenses in cosmetology, barbering, aesthetics, nail technology or massage therapy.  The corporate can be inaugurating 25 quarterly scholarships of $250 each to current My Salon Suite members seeking to proceed their education. “As we grow, we wish to search out ways to offer back to not only our community, but to the wonder industry usually,” said Kelly McCarthy-Westbrook, vp of supply chain and training at My Salon Suite. Founded in 2010, My Salon Suite counts greater than 7,000 members across 270 locations in North America. Each rented...
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12 Apr

Gucci’s Ultra-Luxe Private ‘Salon’ Store Concept Debuts in L.A.

MICHAEL BUCKNER/WWD Gucci has launched its first ultra-luxe Salon store concept in L.A., complete with fresh-off-the-red-carpet gowns. The 4,380-square-foot space is on the prime corner of Melrose Place and Melrose Avenue in an ivy-covered constructing that for years was occupied by Marc Jacobs. He first put the sleepy, leafy street of antique dealers on the luxurious fashion map when he opened his store there in 2005, resulting in the arrival of Bottega Veneta, Balmain, Chloé, Oscar de la Renta, Marni, Golden Goose and plenty of more on what’s develop into certainly one of L.A.’s toniest industrial thoroughfares. There’s even a Caviar Kaspia now. The large Gucci billboard on top lends visibility to the brand for anyone driving by. However the Gucci Salon will...
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