April 17th, 2011
Out this week, w/e magazine. Working my haute mullet mission.
April 8th, 2011
My friend, actress Efi Gousi, stopped by my studio the other day. She’s always snapping away.
March 31st, 2011
Out in this month’s Schön! magazine, is the editorial I did for Filep Motwary and Maria Mastori’s latest collections.
Photographs by Thanassis Krikis
Styling by Nicholas Georghiou
Make up by Stellar
Hair by Thanos Samaras
Model Quinta Witzel
Quinta is a disciplined and inspiring collaborator. A huge pleasure working with her.
March 25th, 2011
From my line of limited edition, luxury mohair wig and wiglet sets, meet “Joyeux” #YLW007. Made in soft, butter blond baby mohair, with a realistic hand tied part, giving the appearance of rooted hair. Available now, at the store.
March 24th, 2011
To Paris, to see shows and enjoy the food.
This ancient little old lady was walking incredibly fast, yet slowly.
March 24th, 2011
New York for a few days, Armory Show, food, friends, shows, exhibitions, explore.
Did an episode of The Brini Maxwell Show, coming out soon. Took Brini from a shorter platinum blond to a softer, longer, ash ‘do.
March 24th, 2011
This month’s Votre Beauté. I gave Quinta Witzel a black bob.
[backstage peek]
Photographs by Thanassis Krikis
Fashion editor Nicholas Georghiou
Make up by Stellar
Hair by Thanos Samaras
March 18th, 2011
Did a story for Votre Beauté the other day, working with an older model, Vanessa, a top model in her prime. I had been longing to work with a body that’s not 18 years old. It triggered an unfamiliar empathy and tenderness in me, as I handled her.
..and a mohawk kind of thing, for another story and cover try.
February 24th, 2011
A few weeks ago, I designed the hairstyles for Celia Kritharioti’s runway show for the Madwalk Fashion Rocks event. It was a last moment assignment so I spent a week without hardly any sleep, to prepare. The combination of lack of sleep/food with inhaling massive clouds of hairspray, was hallucinations-inducing.
Initial sketches and tests.
Back at the studio, preparing enough hair for 18 girls. The lineup of models kept changing and thus, the hair colors that were required.
6am call, I fell into an assembly line trance, models sitting down, getting done, next.
I don’t remember much from that day, most of it I later saw in photos online.
18 girls in 13 hours, in a hairstyle that required 1 hour and 20 minutes, getting it down to 45 mins for each model, with the help of the assistants that my agents got for me. When it was over, I felt exactly as if I was drunk. Loved it. Fell inside a taxi and slept the way home.
[Big thanks to Giorgio Constantine and Haris Farsarakis for their awesome backstage photos, scattered in this post.]
February 21st, 2011
One of those lightweight, spring-y “trends” shoots, that require nothing more than a ponytail..
For Vogue, coming out this month.
February 21st, 2011
Fascinating, the level of fine craftsmanship that went into the making of these exquisite shop window mannequins. Pierre Imans in Paris and Irwin Culver in New York, early 20s. Due to the fact that they were made of vulnerable organic materials such as glass, wax, paper and human hair, so few of them survive today in good condition but I’m hell bent on acquiring one to study.
February 20th, 2011
Been researching the Petitcollin dolls, made in Paris in the 50s. Strung celluloid bodies, hand painted features and mohair wigs, very light weight and with a delicious satin skin finish. More often than not, they look like children dressed up and padded up to portray adults. I like what I found under the rather exquisite [for their dime store status] outfit.
February 20th, 2011
I have an extensive vintage combs collection, this type is my favorite and quite rare. You kill three birds with one stone; comb, tease and section, all in one tool. And if they’re made of lucite, I’m in lust. Ah, they don’t make them like they used to.
