The Bergdorf Goodman Salon Employees Are Headed to Julien Farel – WWD

Julien Farel’s Pristine York flagship salon has absorbed 40 staff from Salon Yoshiko, which engaged the penthouse 9th stage of Bergdorf Goodman and closed July 3.

Some of the 10,000-square-foot salon’s fresh recruits are Kenji Ishimoto, Luis Perez, Stefanie Francois, William Simon and Farel’s newly appointed colour director, Parvin Klein.

“When I found out [Salon Yoshiko] was closing, my first thought was to reach out and see if they were OK — it was a shock,” stated Farel, who labored at Bergdorf’s beauty salon himself in 1993 when it was once a Fekkai Salon, the place he met Klein.

The group of workers merger took impact Wednesday.

To house the growth, fresh sinks and styling stations were added to Farel’s Loews Regency Lodge flagship, totaling 17 and 38, respectively.

Farel stated industry of past due has exceeded pre-pandemic ranges, with 2022 being the salon’s largest life to hour.

“We bounce back slowly by building — not trying to run too fast,” stated Farel, who opened a salon in Palm Beach, Florida, utmost September, and is having a look to develop distribution of his namesake hair aid layout.

Salon Yoshiko opened at Bergdorf’s in 2019, and counted 52 staff on the date of its closure. Earlier than that, the 9th flooring salon was once run through John Barrett.

A remark supplied to WWD in June stated, “Yoshiko and Bergdorf Goodman mutually came to the decision to close the salon. There are no immediate plans for the salon space at Bergdorf Goodman.”

Julien Farel Repair & Spa counts Brooke Shields, Olivia Palermo and Uma Thurman amongst its clientele, and provides Martha Stewart and Hillary Clinton with this group of workers growth.

This August, Farel and his workforce will as soon as once more handover because the legit hairstylists of the U.S. Noticeable, running a pop-up for tennis gamers throughout the gardens for the fifteenth consecutive life.