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A Fashionable Partnership – Celebrating Ten Years
Faye From our Northwestern Halls salon was one of the top team of hairdressers asked to style the hair at this years Centrals St Martins Graduate Fashion show.
Being asked to be part of the team for such a prestigious event is a real compliment to Faye and the great work she's beeen doing in the salon and at London fashion week earlier this year
Here's what L'Oreal have to say about Central St Martins College and the partnership they have together:
In 2001 L'Oréal Professionnel and the world famous Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design forged an exciting partnership to nurture cutting edge talent. The aim was to recognise and promote the way hair and fashion have been historically linked and to combine up-and-coming creative fashion talent with the hairdressing stars of tomorrow. Over the years the list of talented designers graduating at the BA show has included Gareth Pugh, Molly Grad, Peter Jansson, Aimee McWilliams, Marcus Wilmont, Aleksander Stanic, Savannah Miller, Jaspar Garvida, Christopher Kane, Steve Jung, Francesca Versace, Mark Fast, Oden Wilson and David Koma among others.
Due to the overwhelming success of the project, this unique relationship is now celebrating 10 years! A team of talented young hairdressers from L’Oréal Professionnel Portfolio have styled the hair for the BA Show:
Chris Appleton – Georges Hairdressing
Sophie Beattie – Royston Blythe
Alison Dace – Saks Hair & Beauty
Kathryn Dartnell – Haringtons
Emma Donohue – Level One
Faye Downey – Barbara Daley
Stacey Egan – Guy Kremer
Vanessa Essack – Paul Edmonds
Danielle Langley – Richard Ward Hair & Metrospa
Andy Simmonds – John Jenkins
Helen Timofti – Paul Edmonds
Lucy Welling – Charles Worthington
Jason Wyatt - RMUK
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Make-up by Lan Nguyen, supported by the Academy of Freelance Make-Up Team
using Maybelline New York
Vincent Mercier, Managing Director of L'Oréal Professional Products Division sums up the collaboration. “Hairstyles and hair colour say as much about you as the clothes you wear, therefore it is not only tremendously exciting, but absolutely vital for L'Oréal Professionnel to forge a relationship with one of the most important fashion schools in the world. This ongoing partnership merges the very latest in fashion talent with the creativity of young hairdressers – it is a unique and inspired collaboration”. This view is echoed by Willie Walters, Course Director of BA Fashion at Central Saint Martins. “The free flow of ideas and creative energy is central to both industries. This collaboration is groundbreaking.”
This year’s panel of judges were Hilary Alexander (Fashion Director, Telegraph), Camilla Morton (Journalist), Marios Schwab (designer), Christopher Rawstron (Director Homme Kenzo) Christian Juul Nielson (Christian Dior), Adam Reed (Percy & Reed), Kathryn Ferguson (Fashion Film Director) and Willie Walters (Course Director BA Fashion).
Fashion Historian, Colum McDowell hosted the prize-giving presentations and congratulated L’Oréal Professionnel on the ten year partnership, supporting education and young design talent. Designer David Koma presented 3rd prize to Alex Mullins (Menswear), Drusilla Befus presented 2nd prize to Tahari Roque (Knitwear), and Catherine McMahon, L’Oréal Professionnel Portfolio Manager presented the L’Oréal Professionnel Young Designer of the Year Award 2010, to Yi Fang Wan (Womenswear).
L’Oréal Professionnel is delighted to enable talent from the hairdressing industry to work alongside their fashion contemporaries, and has also worked with numerous Central Saint Martin’s graduates both at London Fashion Week, and on the L’Oréal Professionnel Colour Trophy events.
Notes: The team created 3 hair looks for the show:
Hans Belmer “Dolls”: Low side parting with the hair scraped back into a tight chignon at the nap with a clean, glossy, finish.
Rebel: Height and curl at the roots with the hair swept back with fingers into loose plaits, which are pinned up at the back and messed up.
Tippi Hedren: Hair swept up into a woven French pleat. Diagonal sections from each side from the bottom up are criss crossed and pinned in shape, keeping the lengths forward. These are wrapped around and pinned into place to finish
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