Nicholas French
NAHA 19 Avant Garde Winner – We congratulate Nick for his award-winning looks. Click to visit his photo gallery.
Nicholas has been invited to appear seven times at the Alternative Hair Show; the last five in Chicago 2001, 2002, and 2003 and 2004 and 2005.
He has also received many best main stage and educational awards.
Nicholas has traveled extensively producing over 1,500 high energy educational shows for professional hairdressers worldwide in the USA and glamorous destinations around the world including Japan, Australia, Italy, France, Spain, Hong Kong, Holland, Switzerland and Croatia. His presentations range from small hands on to large shows for over 2,000 people.
History:
NICHOLAS FRENCH hails from a world famous British hairdressing family
(Freddy French, French of London). His own story is very unique having owned several salons in the UK. He has expanded his interests to working in print, video and even motion pictures. Additionally, he has traveled the world as a well known guest artist for many years.
He now resides in the USA working exclusively for Matrix. His exploits have extended to designing the runway hair for such designers as Emanuel Ungaro, Eres, Luca Luca, Alpana Bawa, Guess Jeans, Levi, Dollhouse, Mavi, and Betsy Johnson. He has recently appeared on Fashion TV, E Channel and Channel 7 in Chicago, Good Day New York Channel 5, The Today Show Channel 4 and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Nicholas French has recently been chosen to create and lead the Vavoom Team for the Instyle Runway Show 2005. Additionally, he will be creating the hair for the 40th Anniversary Cosmopolitan Runway Show.
Show Mission:
Nicholas French for the new Millennium recognizes the development of hair design, which has finally taken its important place in the fashion world. His shows and presentations are carefully positioned into the market place to a far more discerning audience than ever before so Nicholas uses a well-sourced international fashion
Consultant to research the way forward in fashion. With this intelligence Nicholas has the advantage to seeing the future fashion trends in advance. Every country, every state, every city has its own signature of demographic identity. The Nicholas French criteria is to educate through forward planning so that once an audience has gained the reality of a new trend, may it be a combination of color, wave or haircut geared to new fashion directions. The audience (our clients) will have that edge over their competitors wherever they come from. Nicholas French shows will always have a cross section to cater for the many different standards of salons, may it be redefining the basics, the classics, the avant-garde with a special section of the presentation dedicated to a specific new upcoming commercial trend.
He is instrumental in the development of Trends and Collections for Matrix.
Skill set:
Cutting, Finishing, Dresswork, Long Hair, Runway Shows, Trade Shows, Seminars, Motivational Speaker, Inventor
Notable Awards & Achievements:
3 nominations for Southern British Hairdresser of the Year
Matrix Avant Garde hairdresser of the year 1997 and 2001
Matrix Platform Artist of the Year 1998
Additionally Nicholas was voted in the top 75 Educators of the century by Modern Salon.
Nominated for Platform Artist of the Year 2003 by Behindthechair.com
ABBIES Winner – Best product marketing – Nicholas French Pin-Ups 2004
Finalist 2005 – North American Hairstyling Awards for Masters
Winner 2006 - North American Hairstyling Awards for Avant Garde
Finalist 2007 - North American Hairstyling Awards for Texture
Finalist 2007 – Behindthechair.com, Stylist Chair Awards, Platform Artist of the Year
He has recently been inducted into a British Hairdressing Icons book that has just been published called ”FROM SALON TO CELEBRITY”
His work has been as diverse as producing and developing trends to film and print work. He has also been involved in the runway shows of London and New York.
Please look at the Nicholas French web site for information on Nicholas French Pin-Ups (a patented magnetic wrist band organizer invented by Nicholas French). www.nicholasfrench.com
The Nicholas French Signature Hair Brush Collection is soon to be launched.
FILM DIRECTORS WORKED WITH
RIDLEY SCOTT |
JOHN ST CLAIRE |
JOHN S CLARK |
PAUL WEILAND |
DAVID BAILEY |
ALAN ORPIN |
IAN MACMILLAN |
DEREK COUTTS |
STUART MACLEOD |
CHRIS HARTWELL |
JOHN O’DRISCOLL |
NICK LEWIN |
ADRIEN LYNE |
STEVE LOWE |
KEN LOACH |
IAN MACDONALD |
GRAHAM ROSE |
HOWARD GUARD |
MICHAEL SERESIN |
BOB BROOKS |
ROSS CRAMER |
JIM LEE |
BRIAN LOFTUS |
LEN FULFORD |
NICHOLAS ROEG |
RICHARD SLOGETT |
TONY MAGEE |
JOHN MARLES |
MIKE BERKOFSKY |
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TERRY BEDFORD |
JOHN THORNTON |
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PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKED WITH
DAVID BAILEY |
MIKE BERKOFSKY |
DAR LAN |
LORD LITCHFIELD |
ALEX CHATELAIN |
ROGER EATON |
CECIL BEATON |
TONY MAGEE |
ANGUS ROSS |
STUART MACLEOD |
GILLES BENSIMON |
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CELEBRITIES WORKED WITH
ELIZABETH HURLEY |
DAME JUDI DENCH |
SUSANNAH YORK |
CLAUDIA CARDINALE |
TWIGGY |
PATSY KENSIT |
ALEXIS SMITH |
JULIE WALTERS |
DAWN FRENCH |
JERRY HALL |
KELLY LE BROCK |
BOB HOSKINS |
PAUL HOGAN |
MICHAEL DENNISON |
HUGH LAURIE |
SHIRLEY BASSEY |
ELAINE PAGE |
ELKIE BROOKS |
TOMMY TUNE |
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ROYALTY
SELECTION OF VIDEOS
Pink Floyd
The Pasadenas
Village People
Miami Sound Machine
SELECTION OF FILMS
The French Lieutenants Woman
Feast in July – Merchant Ivory Productions
PRINT
Vogue – UK & Australia
Harpers
Cosmopolitan
Elle
Culture Magazine Australia
Marie Claire
Glamour
Good Housekeeping
Harpers Bazaar
Redbook
OK
Oprah |
