On Tuesday, April 13th, Van Michael Salon will be hosting a viewing of Tapped- The Movieat Lefont Theaters in Sandy Springs immediately followed by a question and answer session with producer Sarah Olson and Director Stephanie Soechtig.
Please join us for the most integral part of this event at 7PM outside the theater next to the Tapped Truck where we will be collecting pledges for people to reduce their bottled water use and we will trade people their empty bottles of water for a Klean Kanteen!
We are requesting a minimum $10 cash donation at the door for the viewing of this award film winning and with all proceeds to directly protect the Chattahoochee through Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. To learn more about this local organization assuring safe drinking water for Atlanta please click here.
The first board meeting for the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) for the 2009/2010 year was last night and the museum has so much on its plate that it's quite amazing! I have never been this excited about being a member of an organization before. The biggest and most exciting thing for me that the Museum has right away is the opening of the Marcel Breuer exhibit! The word "inspiring" does not encapsulate what his work does for me. On Tuesday, Oct 27th at 6:30pm is the Patron Opening. The exhibit will run through January 2010, and I encourage anyone who is not only a fan of design, but anyone who has questioned where to place a piece of furniture, see this exhibit . For those of you who aren't familiar with Breuer, he was one of the most influential designers of the 20th century! If you are even the slightest fan of Bauhaus art, design and architecture, then you are a fan of Breuer.
I know that in my industry Bauhaus has been thought of as the influence for clean geometry in hair, so I personally want to take this one step further. My newest Avant Garde collection is going to be based solely on shapes, poses and angles design and created originally from Marcel Breuer and recreated by myself using hair and models as my media. Please look for this collection to be finished and released Spring of 2010!
Van Michael Salon was recently invited to lend its talents in collaboration with Versace for a very special evening commemorating the grand re-opening of the Phipps Plaza Versace boutique, and the Spring 2009 Versace collection. The evening played out like a gallery exhibit, which was fitting as the host for the event was none other than Mason Murer Fine Arts in Buckhead. In non-traditional fashion show style, the models stood on raised blocks instead of walking a runway, standing as though they were mannequins. It was true art.
The Versace collection was awe-inspiring. Of particular interest to me was a handbag that had such delicious hardware in matte gold finish, and a tiny mint green dress made of a fabric that looked like (for lack of a better description) fish scales. Backstage was not the chaos you usually see at a fashion show. Daniel Holzberger and his team of hair artists produced coifs straight from the runways of Milan, and my team of amazing make-up artists made me so proud, they swept metallic smokey eyes in minutes. We received amazing compliments from everyone at the show.
Very Special Thanks go to: Daniel Holzberger, Sevin Vee, Rod Lawson, Ginger Barton, Georgia Berry, Mequilla Lewis, Tiffany Cantrell, Tedrick Hargrove, and Gracie Zane
Let me acquaint you with my newest love. I recently had the distinct privilege to be the personal groomer for Tom Filicia, host of “Dress My Nest”, and one of the Fab Five from the Bravo hit “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”. Tom was in Atlanta promoting his new book “Style”, and to attend the Grand Opening Party for the Buckhead W Hotel of which he did the interior designs.
Tom and I hit it off right away because we both approach our interior spaces as we do fashion. For those of you who find yourselves stuck-in-a-rut when it comes to your home space, I implore you to pick up his book. Tom’s interior style is fresh and organic. He utilizes great deals of natural materials in his designs such as unfinished woods, nubby textures, and earthy colors that melt into each other.
The W party was grand indeed, and many of our Atlanta socialites stepped up to the plate with their fashions. The women were in real cocktail dresses, and the gentlemen wore sport coats that ranged from rich velvet to patchwork satin. The staff wore all black, as do all W employees, but it was the amazing interiors that stole the show. I of course, wore hot pink!
Over the course of the past few weeks I have focused my attention on nail polishes and what the current trends are in manicured nails. I personally do not paint my fingernails because brush cleaner will take it right off. I do, however, go crazy on my toes with fun colors.
What I have noticed are women in our salons gravitating towards the classic white-tipped French manicure. Do we really believe that the French wear their nails with white tips? This style of manicure has become such a common style, and I (as well as most of the really stylish ladies I know) truly do not comprehend it. If what you seek is the appearance of a bare and clean nail, wear blush tones, or depending on your nail bed color, tan or creams. I have learned to embrace darker nail polishes for the hands, and I think a vampy cherry-black on short nails looks amazing. Looking ahead towards the spring season, begin looking for your signature color. The brand OPI consistently and successfully puts collections together that mimic the fashions that are current for the season.
“And now, a little history lesson. Nail polish was invented 5,000 years ago by the Ming Dynasty. Chinese royalty wore colored nails as a reflection of the current dynasty (gold and silver during the Chou, red and black during the Ming, etc). Queen Nefertiti wore ruby red and Cleopatra wore rust red, but the women of the lower classes were permitted to use only very pale colors.” – taken from “The One Hundred” by Nina Garcia
So my queens… Let us get away from white tipped nails and really wear nail polish!
The first board meeting for the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) for the 2009/2010 year was last night and the museum has so much on its plate that it's quite amazing! I have never been this excited about being a member of an organization before. The biggest and most exciting thing for me that the Museum has right away is the opening of the Marcel Breuer exhibit! The word "inspiring" does not encapsulate what his work does for me. On Tuesday, Oct 27th at 6:30pm is the Patron Opening. The exhibit will run through January 2010, and I encourage anyone who is not only a fan of design, but anyone who has questioned where to place a piece of furniture, see this exhibit . For those of you who aren't familiar with Breuer, he was one of the most influential designers of the 20th century! If you are even the slightest fan of Bauhaus art, design and architecture, then you are a fan of Breuer.
I know that in my industry Bauhaus has been thought of as the influence for clean geometry in hair, so I personally want to take this one step further. My newest Avant Garde collection is going to be based solely on shapes, poses and angles design and created originally from Marcel Breuer and recreated by myself using hair and models as my media. Please look for this collection to be finished and released Spring of 2010!
Van Michael Salon was recently invited to lend its talents in collaboration with Versace for a very special evening commemorating the grand re-opening of the Phipps Plaza Versace boutique, and the Spring 2009 Versace collection. The evening played out like a gallery exhibit, which was fitting as the host for the event was none other than Mason Murer Fine Arts in Buckhead. In non-traditional fashion show style, the models stood on raised blocks instead of walking a runway, standing as though they were mannequins. It was true art. 
The Versace collection was awe-inspiring. Of particular interest to me was a handbag that had such delicious hardware in matte gold finish, and a tiny mint green dress made of a fabric that looked like (for lack of a better description) fish scales. Backstage was not the chaos you usually see at a fashion show. Daniel Holzberger and his team of hair artists produced coifs straight from the runways of Milan, and my team of amazing make-up artists made me so proud, they swept metallic smokey eyes in minutes. We received amazing compliments from everyone at the show. 
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