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Mayfair history
A square mile of hairdressing, and where it all came from.
Mayfair history posts
- Leonard of Mayfair: The Forgotten King of Upper Grosvenor StreetAsk anyone to name a famous hairdresser and you'll hear "Vidal Sassoon." Ask who cut Twiggy's crop, gave the Beatles their moptops, styled a US President, and trained half the famous names that came…
- One Square Mile: Why Mayfair Became the Hairdressing Capital of the WorldMayfair is roughly one square mile. It runs from Oxford Street in the north to Piccadilly in the south, Park Lane in the west and Regent Street in the east. Inside that boundary, more has happened to…
- Perming, Setting, Straightening: What Mayfair Salons Actually Did to Hair, 1906–TodayStraightening is a big part of my work today, so I have a professional interest in how we got here — and the honest history is that for most of the last century, London salons made their money…
- The History of Yuko Hair Straightening SystemI left Molton Brown Hairdressing for a new challenge in 1998, before Yuko System — the pioneers of chemical straightening — first opened their Academy outside Japan in Mayfair, London. It was a big…
- The Mayfair Family Tree: Why Almost Every Famous British Hairdresser Comes From Two SalonsIf you trace the careers of almost any well-known British hairdresser working since the 1970s, you end up at the same two or three addresses in Mayfair. Not as a coincidence — as a system. Vidal…
- The Salon That Changed Everything: Vidal Sassoon on Bond StreetI cut hair a few minutes' walk from where modern hairdressing was invented. That is not marketing talk. It is a street address: 108 New Bond Street, third floor. In 1954 a twenty-six-year-old from…
- The history of digital permingHere I intend to give you a brief information on Digital perming, which is a new technologie originates from Japan in the beginning of 2000’s. Well that’s what most hairdressers would say, but it’s…
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