We were SO excited to see that Orlando Pita - a top stylist our hair team trained with last year - is being featured on Bravo's Shear Genius!! This year Orlando serves as mentor to the team of stylists competing for the Shear Genius title. Think Top Chef...for hair! The contestants find themselves in crazy situations week after week designing some amazing hair styles.
Last year the stylists learned the latest in upstyle trends for special events and weddings at a training with Orlando Pita. They are very excited to bring these new ideas and trends to their clients at the Wingate. According to his official biography - For the last two decades, Orlando Pita has been a master of hair styles and fashions, the theatrical as well as the more realistic. Chances are that everyone who is reading this has seen numerous examples of his work. Pita styles hair for celebrities from Madonna and Janet Jackson to Gwyneth Paltrow and Julianne Moore. His work has graced magazine covers such as the Italian, French, British, and American editions of Vogue, W, Harper's Bazaar, and Allure, and he has worked with such noted fashion photographers as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Mario Testino.
Many of his most extreme and fabulous hair designs were created for the fashion runway. Pita has created looks for Michael Kors, Versace, Prada, Miu Miu, Christian Dior, Valentino, Gucci, Narcisco Rodriguez, Tommy Hilfiger, and Dolce & Gabbana, and has also designed hair for rising designers such as Proenza Schouler and Derek Lam. Pita has worked with John Galliano for over six years; and it took him three days to create the incredible, flat, square hairstyle worn by models for the 2004 Egyptianthemed Dior Couture show. Declaring that he missed actually cutting hair, Orlando Pita opened his own salon in January 2005, in New York's meatpacking district.
You can catch Shear Genius every week on the Bravo channel!
For the second year in a row, the Wingate Salon and Spa has been recognized as one of the top 200 spas in the country by Salon Today magazine, a top business publication for the professional beauty industry. Each year, Salon Today dedicates two issues to innovative, successful salons and their forward-thinking owners. Salon Today 200 focuses on the growth of your salon and spa. Salon Today rewards 200 spas from across the country for achievements in annual service and revenue sales, growth in revenue since the last year, projected growth for 2005, and superior services for hair, nail, skin and body care. The magazine's seventh annual Salon Today 200 profiled the selected salons in its January 2004 issue.
The 200 salons were selected from applications submitted by Salon Today readers, who represent the 25,000 top-producing salons in the country. "We created the Salon Today as a forum of inspiration for the industry, to celebrate the success of salons of all sizes," said Laurel Smoke, editor of Salon Today. "This issue not only honors the hard work and dedication of the salon owners and their staffs, but by sharing the facts and figures behind their salon success stories, it helps other readers grow and improve their businesses. These salons-big and small-used creative marketing, tight budgeting and savvy business skills to stay on top and improve their businesses."
Congrats to our staff for their hard work and dedication - it shows every day in the great work they do!
