Mainstage, Fashion Focus, Toronto

Long hair scene at BSG

It was a great week in Toronto! Redken Canada had me back to do a main stage presentation for the Beauty Systems Group Fashion Focus Show.I have always loved working in Canada and the team that I had on the show was AMAZING!

Anthony Watson was with me on stage and lead the team on all of the color for the models. His talent for color is only surpassed by his sense of humor and his ability to translate his techniques for the audience.

Taca Ozawa , Steve Racine, Jeff Jager, and Chris Nicholson were the team. As usual they did a great job with everything from color to finishing the models for the show. These guys know how to pay attention to detail! Everything was finished to perfection and not even the smallest detail was left unattended. Many thanks guys!

The wardrobe was done for me by Pascal and Jérémie. What can I say? These guys are incredible. Having worked with them in July at the STRUT magazine Cover Competition event, I knew there would be no worries about the wardrobe for the show.They pulled the clothes from Canada's best designers using inspiration tears that I sent them prior to the show. These two are major talents in Canada's fashion industry, having done work at Canadian fashion week events, Television production and film.

Pascal and Jérémie are currently working on a new magazine publication featuring the best that Canadian design has to offer, more details soon...

Extra special thanks go to-

Julie Adam for all the pre-event planning and also for calling the show from the soundboard, not one missed cue!

Terry Ritcey for striving to make Redken Canada events the best!

Renata Merton for keeping me on track and for the great job as model room coordinator, I can still hear "last chance for the bathroom!..."

Opening scene of the show.

Medulla models.

Big hair with lots of texture.

French and Italian twists.

With Anthony Watson on stage.

Close up of one of the models wearing the hairpiece I made for the Paper Magazine shoot.

Close up of one of the short cuts.

Close up of the long asymetric cut

Models from the Finale' scene.

Close up of one of the male models.

Close up of the make up

Giorgio Armani Spring 2005

We did the hair for Armani's spring show at Pier 59. There were at least 50 hairdressers and 50 make up artists behind the scenes getting over 160 models ready for the show!

Pier 59 New York City.

Pier 59 New York City.

Pier 59 New York City.

Pier 59 New York City.

Great Hats and Jewelry.

Placing hats on top of jelled wrapped hair...

Kim Cattrall and Patricia Field at the show.

Glen Close back stage.

Jai from Queer Eye backstage.

Martin Sscorsese

Ricky Martin before the show.

Ricky Martin in the show.

Tatum O'Neal back stage.

Vin Diesel back stage.

Björk for Paper Magazine

For the 20th Aniversary Issue of Paper Magazine we used the first hairpiece that I made while Shoplifter and I were working out the concept for the Medulla cover. Björk has beautiful eyes and the hairpiece is edgy and modern without taking anything away from her unusual beauty. Björk also wore this hairpiece out to Dellancey, a club on the lower east side, where she was DJ-ing a party. It was a great time.

Photo- Richard Phibbs
Make up- Andrea Helgadottir

Fahion Week , Carlos Mielle

September 12th, 2004
Bryant Park, The Plaza

Fahion Week, Lela Rose

September 12th 2004
Christie's

Fashion Week, As Four

Spring 2005-

Many editors called this collection one of As Four's best. We refferenced one of the major details of the collection by wrapping the model's hair around ping pong balls which made for the next "perfect pony-tail."

Fashion Week, As Four

The As Four show this season drew rave reviews some called it "their best collection yet!"
The hair was done using ping pong balls worked into the models pony tails, refferencing one of the major ellements of the collection.

Crash Magazine

The concept for this shoot was "Beasts of Burden" for a French magazine called CRASH. The shoot was done at photographer Erez Sabag's studio. The styling was done by Etta Gudmunsdóttir and Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir (AKA Shoplifter) who go by the name "Steel and Knife". The make up was done by Andrea Helgadóttir.

Redken/Strut Magazine, Toronto

July 13th 2004

Björk Medulla

I worked with my friend Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir AKA "Shoplifter "on the project for Björk's new album cover for "Medulla." "Shoppy" is an artist who works with hair in a lot of her installations and when Björk approached her to do the project she came to me to collaborate on the looks that we would do for the promo shoots and the album cover. It is great to have the opportunity to work with someone who really lets you go full on with a concept. Björk is such a beautiful and creative woman. Look for more posts in the archives of the various shoots to promote the album.

Photography- Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
Hair- Brent Borreson and Hrafhildur Arnardóttir (Shoplifter)
Make up- Andrea Helgadóttir

Artwork- M/M Paris