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Oribe (pronounced OR-bay) is a distinguished and renowned celebrity hairstylist and has been lauded as one of the top hairdressers in the US and perhaps the world, by key fashion designers and editors.^[1] Oribe's combination of session, celebrity and salon work spans over three decades, and he has defined the notion of fashion over the course of a career of unprecedented longevity and scope.

His collaborators include countless photographers, like Bill King, who introduced him to the fashion editor Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele. There was the meticulous Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, who shot Cindy Crawford for American Vogue with hair that Oribe teased to infinity; and others like Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier, Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts, Francesco Scavullo, Horst, Craig McDean and Steven Klein. Oribe has worked with creative directors like Fabien Baron and Keesha Keeble; make-up artists like François Nars, Pat McGrath, Kevyn Aucoin and Stephane Marais; and fashion designers like Gianni Versace, a mentor who inspired Oribe’s tattoos, and Karl Lagerfeld, who took the rock and roll hairstylist under his wing. And then there are the models, celebrities and icons - from Beverly Johnson, the original supermodel, to Christy Turlington who Oribe appears with in an iconic Vogue spread, to the always radiant Heidi Klum and Naomi Campbell. In fact, it was Diana Ross who showed Oribe how to really secure a wig. And, of course, one can’t leave out Jennifer Lopez, who Oribe has worked with since her first album cover.

All told, Oribe has contributed to just about every major magazine and worked on just about every major fashion show. In the last year alone his editorial and campaign work has been seen on the covers and pages of Vogue, Elle, Allure, W, V and Pop. When he is not on set, Oribe is working out of his South Beach salon.

Contents 1 1970s - 1980s 2 1990s 3 2000s 4 References 5 External links

[edit] 1970s - 1980s

1976. Oribe moved to New York where he was hired to assist Garren, a celebrity hair stylist who operated one of the most exclusive salons in the city.^[2] It was while working at Garren that Oribe received his first editorial credit from GQ which subsequently changed the course of his career.^[3]

That first credit started a long editorial career including an era-defining five-year collaboration with the photographer Steven Meisel. Their collaboration demanded notice almost immediately, beginning with an image of Christy Turlington, as a wide-eyed fawn for a Commes des Garçons ad campaign. Oribe had teased and spun Turlington's naturally curly hair and flecked it with stems of metallic leaves which she also held between her teeth. It was wild, clean and unexpected.

Oribe and Meisel, along with the make-up artist François Nars, were for all intents inventing the supermodel, that ambassador of the booming fashion industry.^[4] The rise of Meisel’s team and models like Christy, Linda and Naomi was well documented. When Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell soaked in a Los Angeles hot tub smoking cigarettes for Meisel and Vogue Italia, Oribe was the one who plopped the 60’s bobs onto their heads.

Oribe even got roped into some of the shots - It was also Oribe who laughed alongside Turlington on a gondola in Venice in American Vogue and it was Oribe's tattooed forearm pulling on Turlington’s long blond hairpieces in an Allure spread.

1987. Oribe established his first salon, Oribe at Parachute.^[5][6] It was also during this time that Oribe became well known for his eponymous talent agency——that represented future beauty industry heavyweights like Laura Mercier, François Nars, Kevin Mancuso, Danilo and Jimmy Paul.

[edit] 1990s

1991. Oribe made news when he opened his palatial Fifth Avenue salon at Elizabeth Arden in New York City^[7] (he was introduced to the cosmetics company by the model Vendela^[8] (who was its new face). The 6,000-square-foot (560 m²) Venetian palazzo was the perfect expression of Oribe’s larger than life approach to hair.

Rita Hazan, hair colour stylist spent the first ten years of her career at the Oribe Manhattan salon.

For Oribe, there can never be enough volume which is why his work with Gianni Versace during the early-90’s was so extraordinary. Oribe created powerful imagery with Versace, like the advertising portfolios by the photographer Richard Avedon of the models Kristen McMenamy and Nadja Auermann or the model Stephanie Seymour, posing with Marcus Schenkenberg.

1992. He received the honor of being asked by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to design hair from raffia for the reopening of the Costume Institute galleries, a sculptural mission well-suited to his artistic hand. The results, which Oribe spent months completing, decorated Ralph Pucci mannequins created specially for the occasion with Christy Turlington’s likeness.

1993. Fashion was exhausted and the popular aesthetic was on the brink of a radical shift from the overblown to the understated. Oribe loved constructing large glamorous hairstyles, but he was also the one backstage at the historic, tide-turning 1993 Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis grunge show, masterminding the new sloppy, lank hair. It was heartbreaking work for a maximalist, but it had an impact that was no less seismic.

1995. When John F. Kennedy Jr. cast Cindy Crawford as a midriff-baring George Washington for the inaugural cover of his celebrity-stoked political magazine George, Oribe styled the Revolutionary lace-front silver wig.

1997. Jennifer Lopez called for Oribe. He was ready for a challenge outside of the fashion world and so he accompanied her to Miami to shoot the cover of her first album, On the 6. He lightened her hair and pulled it tightly over a wig into a long ponytail. Oribe worked with her during her rise and at the heights of her millennial celebrity.

[edit] 2000s

2003. While working on the Winter Louis Vuitton campaign, Oribe met the photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Together Mert and Marcus and Oribe captured Kate Moss as Marilyn Monroe for W. Then, after a Giorgio Armani campaign shoot with the model Agyness Deyn, they shot the rave-inspired cover story for Katie Grand’s style magazine Pop with Oribe giving Deyn’s signature pixie cut a sparkling metallic makeover brushed into shapes usually reserved for video game characters.

He enjoyed the London creative boom with British Vogue covers shot with Craig McDean and pages and pages of Beth Ditto from the band The Gossip—an icon in the making—interpreted by Steven Klein for Pop.

2003 Walked away from his salon in Elizabeth Arden on Fifth Avenue and moved to Florida.

2005 Opened a $1 million signature salon in Miami Beach.

2008. Oribe continues to set new standards in his craft, most recently with one of the most iconic ad campaigns of 2008. The Richard Prince shot Vuitton ads, feature glamorous beauties, luscious hair, American muscle cars and black lacquer backgrounds – an Oribe signature scene if there ever was one.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• "IMDB Oribe"
• "V Magazine 5 Questions for Oribe"
• "Make Up Talk: How to Get Cover Girl Sexy Hair"