Oribe

Oribe (pronounced OR-bay)^{[citation needed]}, Cuban-American born, Oribe Canales, is a "celebrity hairstylist".^[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.^{[citation needed]}

His collaborators include photographers, like Bill King, who introduced him to the fashion editor Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele. There was Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, who shot Cindy Crawford for American Vogue with hair that Oribe did; 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^[who?] under his wing. And then there are the models, celebrities and icons - from Beverly Johnson, to Christy Turlington who Oribe appears with in a Vogue spread, to Heidi Klum and Naomi Campbell.

In the last year^[when?] alone his editorial and campaign work has been seen on the covers and pages of Vogue, Elle, Allure, W, V and Pop.^{[citation needed]}

1970s - 1980s

1976. Oribe moved to New York where he was hired to assist Garren, a celebrity hair stylist who operated one of the 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 a five-year collaboration with the photographer Steven Meisel.

Oribe and Meisel, along with the make-up artist François Nars, were for all intents inventing the supermodel.^[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 did their barnets.

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.

1990s

1991. Oribe opened his 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).

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

Oribe created imagery with Gianni 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 was asked by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to design hair from raffia for the reopening of the Costume Institute galleries. The results, which Oribe spent months completing, decorated Ralph Pucci mannequins created specially for the occasion with Christy Turlington’s likeness.

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.

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.

References

1. ^ People Magazine, "Hair Force" Sept 16, 1991.
2. ^ Lucire Magazine, "Issue 14"
3. ^ People Magazine, "Hair Force" Sept 16, 1991.
4. ^ Lucire Magazine, "Issue 14"
5. ^ ShowStudio Contributor: "Oribe"
6. ^ New York Times, "Style Makers: Oribe" Mar 5, 1989
7. ^ New York Times"Rise. Fall. Repeat." Jun 16, 2005
8. ^ Lucire Magazine, "Issue 14"

External links

• "IMDB Oribe"