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MAYA MEIRAV

MAYA MEIRAV

MAYA MEIRAV GREW UP IN ISRAEL AND WAS CONSTANTLY SURROUNDED BY ART AND DESIGN. THE DAUGHTER OF CHILEAN IMMIGRANTS, HER GRANDFATHER WAS A PATTERN-MAKER AND CLOTHING MANUFACTURER WHO OWNED A BOUTIQUE WHERE, AS A YOUNG GIRL, MAYA SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS SCOUTING GLITTERY TRIMS AND SHINY BUTTONS. IN LATER YEARS, EXPLORING FLEA MARKETS AND STUDYING THE HISTORY OF ART FURTHER ENRICHED BOTH HER FORMAL EDUCATION AND THE PROPENSITY TO LEAD A CREATIVE LIFE.

IT WAS THAT CONTINUOUS EXPOSURE TO VARIOUS FORMS OF DESIGN AS AN INDISPENSABLE PART OF LIFE, THE QUEST TO SURROUNDING HERSELF WITH BEAUTY AND THE PURSUIT OF INDIVIDUALISM, THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE REALIZATION OF MAYA’S FASHION PHILOSOPHY IN ONE-OF-A-KIND COUTURE GARMENTS.

FOLLOWING HER LIFE-LONG INTEREST IN THE WORKINGS OF THE HUMAN MIND, MAYA STUDIED PSYCHOLOGY AND WAS PREPARING TO TRAIN AS A THERAPIST. BUT THEN CAME A TURNING POINT.

WHILE A STUDENT, SHE TOOK A PART-TIME JOB WITH HER AUNT, A DESIGNER EXTRAORDINAIRE, THE LATE RUTH MOLCHO. WORKING SIDE BY SIDE WITH HER GREATEST MENTOR, SHE LEARNED THE MEANING OF LIVING PASSIONATELY, LISTENING TO ONE’S OWN VIOCE AND SUMMING THE COURAGE TO BRING ONE’S AESTHETIC VISION TO LIFE. ACCOMPANIED BY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, BRENDA LEE, INTI-ILLIMANI AND MERCEDES SOSA. THEY SPENT LONG DAYS MAKING JEWELRY, SCULPTURES AND OTHER OBJECTS D’ARTS, WORKING WITH METALS, GEMS, TEXTILES, PAPER MACHE AND A VARIETY OF PAINTS AND WOOD TYPES.

DURING THAT TIME, MAYA REDISCOVERED HER LOVE OF HAND CRAFT AND BEGAN DESIGNING AND MAKING CLOTHES, EXPLORING THE JUXTAPOSITION OF RAW AND PROCESSED MATERIALS, AND SIGNING HER CLOTHES WITH HAND-PAINTED LABELS.

EARLY ON SHE RECOGNIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF MASTERING THE TECHNIQUES OF FINE-TAILORING AND DRESSMAKING, IN ORDER TO ALLOW HER DESIGNS TO SOAR. SHE APPRENTICED WITH BRIAN GLICK, A GIFTED BRITISH PATTERN-MAKER WHO GENEROUSLY MENTORED HER AND TAUGHT HER THE EXACTING SKILLS OF SAVILE ROW MASTER TAILORS. MAYA SPENT THE NEXT FEW YEARS REFINING HER CONSTRUCTION SKILLS AND DEVELOPING INDIVIDUAL PATTERNS FOR HER CLIENTS.

SINCE MOVING TO BOSTON, USA MORE THAN TEN YEARS AGO, MAYA HAS ATTRACTED AN EXCLUSIVE CIRCLE OF PRIVATE CLIENTS, CREATING ONE-OF-A-KIND PIECES, FROM ECCENTRIC WEDDING GOWNS TO SIMPLE – YET FABULOUSLY LUXURIOUS – COUTURE DAYWEAR.

TODAY MAYA IS ONE OF THE VERY FEW DEDICATED TO NOT ONLY PRESERVING BUT REVIVING THE OLD-WORLD ART THAT IS HAUTE COUTURE. HER WORK EXHIBITS IMPECCABLE CONSTRUCTION, HAND-STITCHED SILK LININGS, UNIQUE EMBROIDERY OF SEM-PRECIOUS GEMS AND ANTIQUE ORNAMENTS, ALL PUT TOGETHER WITH AN EASE AND SIMPLICITY THAT CELEBRATE THE FREE-SPIRITED INDIVIDUAL.

MAYA’S CLOTHES ART INTENDED TO “SPEAK TO THE WEARER”; TO EXPRESS ONE’S INNER QUALITIES IN THE FORM OF A WORN CANVAS. HENCE, THEY ARE TRULY ONE-OF-A-KIND. HER DESIGNS LAY BARE THE SUBTLE SIGNATURE OF LUXURY-BEAUTIFULLY FINISHED INSIDE, HAND-ADE OF THE BEST FABRICS WITH PAINSTAKING ATTENTION TO DETAILS.

MAYA DRAWS HER INSPIRATION FROM THE SOUNDS AND IMAGES OF THE MULTIPLE CULTURES SHE EMBRACES AND THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN HER LIFE. “HAUTE COUTURE IS ABOUT ONE SIZE FITS ONE. PERFECTLY.”

 

 http://www.mayameirav.com/

Tiffany Dowd and Adriana Sassoon at “The Fashionably late” at Liberty Hotel, Boston.

 

For the full Article click below:http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2010/10/30/better_late/

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SOJOURN THREE GENERATIONS

Hair Heir Elan Sassoon: I Want to Continue Dad Vidal’s Legacy

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The son of Vidal Sassoon, heir to his famous father’s hairdressing empire, told Niteside he wants to continue the legacy begun by his business-minded dad.

“I want to finish what he started,” Elan Sassoon, American University grad, told Niteside. “I have decided to continue where my father left off. I have made it my mission to deliver the best cutting education in the world and bring it to the cities that we have launched [product line] Sojourn in.”

The elder Sassoon, 82, is currently touring Scotland on a book tour. Elan is launching his product line, Sojourn, in March in the D.C. area.  After a stint in the film business, Sassoon began following in his father’s footsteps.

Elan has big shoes to fill: “He used to tell me how difficult his childhood was growing up in the orphanage in London and during World War II,” he said.

“My father is incredibly honest and always has been. He has helped many people in his life.” Elan Sassoon

CNBC Washington: For the full article click bellow:

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SOJOURN IN GREENWICH

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 Scene … Elan Sassoon, son of legendary hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, was seen at Carlo & Co. hair salon in the Whole Foods shopping center in Greenwich recently with his wife and two children. Sassoon was demonstrating his new hair care line “Sojourn” that is sold at the salon.

Carlo & Co Salon

70 E Putnam Av
Greenwich, CT, 06830 – Phone: (203) 869-2300

THE DISH: For the full article click below:
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/THE-DISH-Meeting-of-the-Mets-in-Stamford-685117.php

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sojourn beauty  SOJOURN CANADA

Sojourn: The perfect protein and pH balance for your hair!

 by Carole Lemire

Every single aspect of Soho had hours and hours of thought and planning put into it and choosing our retail product line was not any different.   From the day that we decided to open Soho, I new we had to find the best hair care products in the world for our clients.  My sister and I literally spent weeks searching and sent hundreds of emails to product companies around the globe.  We were fortunate to stumble upon Sojourn, a brand new product line that at the time was not yet even available in Canada.  After reading about the product line and speaking with the Sojourn chemist, I knew we had to have it.

The qualification process to carry the product was not easy, but I’m so proud to say that we are the very first salon in Canada (and to our knowledge still the only) to carry Sojourn!

After 14 years in the hair industry, I have the opportunity to use and educate clients on just about every single kind of hair care product under the moon. I have NEVER used anything like Sojourn. Our clients are raving about it and we’ve had a difficult time keeping it on the shelves. There is not a day that goes by that a client does not jump out of their seat with excitement from the way that their hair feels after using Sojourn.

Elan Sassoon is the man behind Sojourn, his father, Vidal Sassoon, is the best-known hair stylist in the world. With years of knowledge, experience and influence in the hair industry, Soho clients now get to experience the ultimate in fine hair care.  The 15 products, which clearly list the pH range of 4.5 to 5.5 on the front of the bottle, are made with Keratin protein, the exact same protein found in human hair. This is what makes Sojourn so special.  The only way to fix dry and damaged hair is to replace the lost Keratin. The majority of hair care products are not infused with Keratin because of the protein’s cost.  It is common to hear product manufacturers talk about soy protein, a cheap alternative to Keratin and truly just another marketing ploy. Every single one of the Sojourn products has Keratin cashmere protein that rebuilds, moisturizes, conditions and protects.

Sojourn contains cystine amino acid (which is what your hair cuticle is made of), which is one of the main building blocks of the Keratin complex. The combination of Keratin cashmere and cystine amino acid prevents hair breakage and split ends.  The products are 100 percent biodegradable with a net-zero environmental impact, and contain no sulfates (which are drying, harsh for the hair, cause eye irritation, allergic reactions, and hair loss) formaldehyde (which is a toxic chemical), denatured alcohol (which causes the hair cuticle to become rough and end up drying out the hair), parabens, (preservatives added to beauty products to keep them from growing bacteria and to increase their shelf life), salt (which has the effect of thickening the mixture, and is added to each batch in the amount needed to raise the viscosity to a specified level) or artificial colors or dyes.

Please check your shampoo, conditioner and styling products. Check to see if the products have a pH level of 4.5 to 5.5, that’s the natural pH of your hair and that’s what all products should be at. If the pH is not 4.5-5.5 on the bottle, saying the product is pH balanced means nothing; it could be balanced at a 9 or even a 10.

So why should you care?

After a colour or highlights, the hair’s pH can be a 9, 10, or 11, to open the cuticle, the color molecule is added into your hair, and then the colourist brings the pH back down to a 4.5 to 5.5 range to close the cuticle. You spend $130+ on colour and the next day you wash your color out because your products don’t fall in the pH range of 4.5-5.5, which keeps your cuticle closed.

These are just a few reasons to use Sojourn. If you are a client of Soho and are using Sojourn, we’d love to hear your comments below!  If you would like to learn more visit the website at www.SojournBeauty.com.  To watch a great interview with Elan Sassoon click here. 
Thank you for reading!

Carole Lemire
Sohohair.ca
Soho Facebook Page

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VIDAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Product Description

Vidal Sassoon’s extraordinary life has taken him from an impoverished East End childhood to global fame. The father of modern hairdressing, his slick sharp cutting took the fashion world by storm and reinvented the hairdressers’ art. Before Vidal Sassoon, a trip to the hairdressers meant a shampoo and set or a stiffly lacquered up-do that would last a week – or more. After Vidal Sassoon, hair was sleek, smooth and very, very stylish. Along with his lifelong friend and partner in style, Mary Quant, who he first met in 1957 and who to this day sports a Sassoon-style geometric bob, he styled the 1960s. As memorable as the mini – be it car or skirt – he is one of the few people who can genuinely be described as iconic. His memoirs are as rich in anecdote as one might hope and full of surprising and often moving stories of his early life – his time at the Spanish & Portuguese Jewish Orphanage in Maida Vale, fighting Fascists in London’s East End and fighting in the army of the fledgling state of Israel in the late Forties. And then there’s the extraordinary career, during which he cut the hair of everyone who was anyone, launched salons all over the world, founded the hairdressing school that still bears his name and became a global brand, with Vidal Sassoon products on all our bathroom shelves.

About the Author

Vidal Sassoon was born in London in 1928. He began his hairdressing career as an apprentice during the Second World War. Today, his name is still associated with the salons and the hairdressing schools he founded in the 1960s. He lives in London and Beverley Hills and in 2009 he was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Description
  • Hardcover: 456 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan (September 3, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0230746896
  • ISBN-13: 978-0230746893
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds

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    MODERN LIVING

     This Modern home in Greenwich, Connecticut. Architect is Ulrich Franzen. Some architects carry their mark into every home. Several of Franzen’s homes look like giant oceanliners steaming over the landscape. This 1992 home is on seven acres overlooking a lake.  The interior is spare and modern with concrete, granite and marble. The five-bedroom home also an elevator, an indoor pool, media, exercise and billiard rooms. Outside a granite terrace surrounds a Shoreline pool with cabana and faces an illuminated tennis court. There is also a two-bedroom guest cottage and ample garage. It is listed at $13 million.

    http://www.sellmodern.com/

    http://philipjohnsonglasshouse.org/

    http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/northeast-region/new-canaan-ct/

    http://www.preservationnation.org/

    Contact me for more informations:

    http://www.adrianasassoon.me

    adrisass@gmail.com

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    THE POWER OF YES

    Prefiro ser eternamente uma sonhadora, viver de sonhos. Ainda que me chamem de louca ou inconcequente. Jamais, vou me conformar com o negativo. A vida e cheia de flores basta abrir os olhos e procura-las porque elas ja estao a sua espera. by Adriana Sassoon

    Eckhart Tolle