Salon Peachy: Joel Warren, Master Colorist & Edward Tricomi, Master Stylist Make Peachy Deegan the Blondest She Ever Was for September 2015: A Perfect Peachy Blonde for Fashion Week The Official Salon of Whom You Know & the Best in the World is Warren Tricomi Plus Their Ideas For Fashion Week and Edward's Stories with Yves Saint Laurent
Edward Tricomi above with Peachy
Joel Warren below with Peachy
It's Fashion Week, New York!
Is your hair ready?
"The blondest you ever were is the title!"says Joel Warren with innate passion for his vocation. "No red! But a warm blonde: a PEACHY BLONDE for highlights! Alternated with your natural color, a neutral shade of brown with a little bit of warmth."
Edward Tricomi and Joel Warren continue to be the best in the business, and recently Peachy Deegan visited them at The Plaza Hotel location for an update to her carefully crafted coiffure by Joel and Edward.
We've gone from not so peachy to PEACHY in terms of hair since last November Joel and Peachy decided when they consider the evolution.
Warren Tricomi was first featured in 2014:
in January 2015:
in March 2015:
in May 2015:
and most recently, in July 2015:
They have several locations, (see Peachy's Professionals or go to the conclusion of this review to see the list) and we always visit The Plaza Hotel.
On a technical basis, Peachy's Highlight is a #10 and the single process is #6 by L'Oreal Professional for haircolor. And the golden rule of Peachy's hair is always achieved: no red. We wanted to talk about fashion week. We could not be happier with our hair: just look at the results. Pictures speak louder than words. "As a colorist, I don't get invited to the shows because we don't do haircolor at the shows," Joel Warren tells us. "However, I have gone to a lot of shows over the years to see them. My favorite show is the bathing suit line Rocha. If you get a good looking girl in a bikini...!"
"Fashion week has changed over time and has become diluted since they ended it in the tents in Bryant Park. Lincoln Center was not great," Joel continues. "It's a shame Bryant Park is not there anymore because now it's spread all over and it's not centralized. They should have 4-5 designers show at one time so it's more interesting and it's more to see. It would have more entertainment value than it has right now. Fashion week was not designed to be entertainment. It was designed to sell clothes to buyers, and then celebrities wanted to go see it so it became more 'entertainment.' They should really just go with that whole concept and make it into entertainment and sell tickets at a bigger venue where it would be really amazing to see an incredible show with a lot of different designers doing a lot of different things. That would be more fun than the way it is now."
After color perfection was achieved, we worked with Edward Tricomi's new blowout person, Davey Partain who gave us straightness with some body while Edward Tricomi enlightened us with his thoughts on Fashion Week.
"We did a show yesterday that was really nice: Cristina Ruales (the video can be seen at Warren Tricomi's Instagram). The show was great because she had modern shapes. Asymmetrical cuts: I created all these wigs that evoke this modern look. Bobs, chignons and surf cuts! I am doing the Anne Bowen show next. Anne Bowen is a really great designer and I love working with her,"says Edward Tricomi.
"What's happening is there's really no one location. I think they need to build a place where these shows can all be housed in one place so young designers can show. We need to have a venue that's really built for fashion with a fashion museum mixed with a place where you have shows. Everyone would have a chance to be on a big stage, with maybe some kind of lottery system where everyone gets a choice to do a show. A lot of designers are young and talented but then there are a lot of mediocre designers. The cream always rises to the top. It would be nice for the talented people that deserve a shot in a bigger arena if this kind of venue could happen. The editors only have so much time and sell space, so writing online to get the word out on someone that is good is important."
"Right now it's so expensive for everybody to work. It's costing designers hundreds of thousands of dollars to do a simple show that shouldn't cost that. Between the hair and makeup people to help pay for the show is crazy. We used to get paid for the show...Big companies are coming in and buying the shows. Years ago you used to get the shows because you were good at it. Now you get it because they're paying you. It's not the same thing."
Is this a problem in Paris, Milan and London too asks Peachy.
"I don't know if they're doing the same thing as far as having things sponsored; I'm sure they are," continues Edward. "I think it's going on all over the world but it's not good for hair and makeup people because if you're not a huge company you can't afford to participate. They have teams sometimes that aren't even good because they got someone to sponsor it."
"I have some fun stories of Yves Saint Laurent," Edward Tricomi says when we tell him we just wrote on the Saint Laurent movie. "I worked with him doing fashion shows in Paris. I don't remember the exact year but it was sometime in the 70's maybe early 80's. There were big bows and he was fun. I loved Yves. We used to have a joke and we'd all go out to dinner after the show, and Yves would order me pigeon. He'd say 'Eddie, it's hamburger!' and I'd say 'No, Yves! It's not a hamburger, it's a !?!!?*** pigeon! That's a pigeon, man.'"
Peachy: Did you eat it?
"Of course not!" continues Edward. "I said nooooo~! And he'd get hysterical. He'd always order this pigeon for me as a joke. I once took him to Brooklyn to the spumoni gardens to eat pizza. We went in a limousine and got four pies, and he said it was the best pizza he'd ever had. Much better than his pigeon."
Peachy: Did anyone ever eat it or was it always a practical joke?
"People would eat it," says Edward. "But it wasn't my thing. He liked to do it as a test joke for me. It was funny! He was very gracious and a very nice person to work with. I worked with him a couple of times. I was fortunate enough to do a couple of shows with him.
"I've worked with Valentino; I've worked with everybody," Edward tells us when we ask what stands out. "Photography-wise, I loved Deborah Turbeville. She was my favorite photographer. I've worked with every big photographer that's ever come down the pike, and every major fashion designer."
Is there anything you want to do that you haven't, Edward?
"I think maybe some special effects movies would be fun," says Edward. "Bladerunner is really cool. I loved Fifth Element. I would have loved to have done that. Futuristic Star Trek movies could be interesting to do."
Just like any other column, Salon Peachy is better when it is more than only hair. Of course we love hair but we like when we can relate it to everything else too.
People that excel in their particular discipline we find are not one-dimensional people. They actually excel and are passionate about life itself, and happened to have picked their one profession. Did you know Edward is musically inclined? Did you know Joel Warren is a serious golfer? He golfs 2-3 times a week and we look forward to including him on Peachy on the Links. Joel's been playing for four years, and prior took a ten year break. Prior to that, Joel played for ten years. He favors Nike woods and Taylor made irons, and a Scotty Cameron putter. Jason Day is Joel's favorite golfer.
"I belong to Trump Westchester," Joel Warren tells us. "The next president: Trump. I absolutely support him. Honestly, it seems like what's going on in America has changed. I'd like to see change in a more capitalistic, more productive type of government instead of this socialist unionized government that doesn't support small business owners like myself. It makes it harder to be in business. Small business is what makes America great and also what makes America work. If you hurt small businesses the country's going to have a real problem."
Whom You Know loves small businesses that excel, and we love our hair!
Edward Tricomi and Joel Warren continue to earn our Highest Recommendation, and our experience at Warren Tricomi can't be beat.
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About the Warren Tricomi Salon Business from their website:
Master colorist Joel Warren and master stylist Edward Tricomi are authorities in the world of hair. Their unrivaled expertise sets trends and has defined beauty across the globe. Joel’s talent for customized hair color and Edward’s high precision dry cuts make the Warren-Tricomi Salons a one-stop beauty destination.
In 1990, the duo collaborated with business guru Roxana Pintilie, a third and equal partner and the driving force behind every facet of the business. Collectively they debuted the first Warren-Tricomi Salon in midtown Manhattan. In 2008, they opened the luxurious Plaza Hotel flagship location and today the thriving empire features eight U.S salons, each designed uniquely to fit its geographic location with a modern twist.
Beyond the salon business, Edward and Joel continue to cultivate their namesake product line, Warren-Tricomi Haircare, the first to be developed by both a colorist and a stylist. Together, the pair is a force to be reckoned with, constantly striving to reach new heights within the beauty industry.
Joel Warren is one of the world’s most recognized colorists, but he started out as an aspiring chef. Inspired by his girlfriend, a beautician, Joel decided to try his hand at beauty school. In his early twenties, he took a job at a Manhattan salon and was fascinated by the process of mixing formulas. He found that the rewarding feeling of creating beautiful hair color was similar to coming up with the perfect recipe.
Joel Warren, Master Colorist and Co-Founder at Warren-Tricomi Salons
As renowned colorist Louis Licari’s first male assistant, Joel learned from the best. He became widely known for his ability to perfectly customize every client’s color using advanced techniques. Modern in his methods, he is adamant about constantly expanding his horizons, keeping up with the latest hair trends and mastering the skills for creating them. What sets him apart is his masterful eye for contrast, shadow and depth.
Joel joined forces with master stylist Edward Tricomi and business guru Roxana Pintilie to open a salon in Midtown Manhattan in 1990. In 2008, they launched the luxurious Plaza Hotel flagship location and today the team leads a thriving business of eight salons in the U.S., each designed uniquely to fit its geographic location with a modern twist. Joel and Edward also own a product line, Warren-Tricomi Haircare, the first to be developed by both a colorist and a stylist.
Edward Tricomi, Master Stylist and Co-Founder at Warren-Tricomi Salons
Linda Fargo – “Edward is THE Rock Star of the hair biz. He plays his scissors with as much groove, intuition, precision, finesse and inspired excellence as the Hall of Famer that he is. He created my signature bob and I am his forever!”
Legendary Warren-Tricomi Salons co-founder Edward Tricomi is known for demanding excellence in everything he does. Be it hair, fashion, or music – when Tricomi is involved, perfection isn’t just expected: it’s inevitable.The roots (no pun intended) of his renowned career began after a suggestion from his sister that he try cutting hair to supplement his income as a musician. Growing up, Edward read Vogue religiously, devouring and absorbing the art within it. Moreover, as the grandson of a fashion designer, he was always surrounded and inspired by the world of fashion. Decades later, Edward is perhaps the most iconic and influential hair historian of our era.
Working his first New York City salon job in the 1970s (working with the likes of Bianca Jagger and Salvador Dali) inspired in him an ambition to create his own beauty empire. He began doing editorial hairstyling, landing his unique and innovative work on numerous prominent fashion magazine spreads and covers.
Edward achieved the position of Art Director at the Jaxavier Salon, widely considered to be the epicenter of style at the time. There, Edward was introduced to world famous stylist and Vogue editor Polly Mellen, whose profound influence helped propel his career to the next level. Through mutual respect and admiration for each other’s talent and work, Polly booked Edward to collaborate alongside iconic fashion photographers including Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier and Helmut Newton. Edward also met Deborah Turbeville, with whom he began a 40 yearlong professional relationship, each one inspiring and impacting the other’s illustrious career. The transformational artistic integrity, avant-garde travel and art exposure that Edward’s editorial career afforded him continue to inspire him decades later.
Glowing reviews from fashion photographers and a sparkling reputation prompted fashion designers to take note of Tricomi, who soon began styling the looks for fashion shows for brands including Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Emanuel Ungaro, Calvin Klein, Dior and many other top tier designers around the world. Edward’s innate understanding of hair and fashion coupled with his visionary ideas regarding their potential to intersect in order to enhance one another propelled him to the forefront of the industry.
Working at strong editorial-based salons helped Edward hone (and eventually perfect) his craft, leading to the development of his signature dry-hair precision technique and rapid-fire method of cutting, which is frequently compared to an artist sketching. It also serves as the inspiration for his loving nickname, “Edward Scissorhands.” This unusual style of cutting mimicks the hair’s natural state with ‘perfectly imperfect,’ abstract layers and allows him to see how the cut will look in the hair’s natural state. Edward is known and respected for this intellectualized approach to hair by elevating the process, he is also elevating the result and ability to understand how each haircut needs to be uniquely tailored and designed to suit the individual for whom it is for.
At the top of his game, Edward decided to leave the editorial world and focus on building his namesake salon business. In 1989, he joined forces with colorist Joel Warren to open the first Warren-Tricomi Salon on East 57th Street in New York City. In addition to fashion and music, Edward has a strong passion for architecture his keen artistic eye, understanding of structure, and dedicated passion have lead him to be integral in the design and layout of every single Warren-Tricomi Salon. The original location closed in 2009 when the salon moved to its current flagship local in the iconic and incomparable Plaza Hotel. Each Warren-Tricomi Salon is incredibly unique, with different décor to reflect the location and personality and essence of the city or neighborhood within which it resides. The brand has a rich history of designing and building some of the most unique salons in the world.
Warren-Tricomi prides itself on being more than just a hair and beauty salon. All stylists trained at Warren-Tricomi are required to study and become experts in not only styling, but also fashion history. It is fundamental to the Warren-Tricomi brand that this extensive knowledge and perspective is present in every single haircut given in their salons. Few other salons can also make this claim, in the same way that few other salons are perpetually and actively on the forefront of beauty and fashion in the way Warren-Tricomi has been for the last 25 years. This significance and influence is evident in many facets of Tricomi’s business, one of which is the fact that they do at least three fashion shows each season, all over the world.
Throughout his prolific career Edward has mentored many well-known stylists including Italo Gregorio, Patrick Melville and Ric Popino. He has worked with virtually every celebrity, including Barbara Streisand, Mick Jagger, Nicky and Paris Hilton, the Kardashians, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon. Edward is constantly garnering inspiration from the people he works with: models like Patti Hansen, makeup artists like Pat McGrath and photographers like Roxanne Lowit.
The legacy of Edward and the Warren-Tricomi Salons continue to be a driving force and influential cornerstone of both the beauty and fashion industries. Their cutting-edge techniques, coupled with their deep appreciation and understanding of history and those who have come before and inspired them, enables Edward’s business to be the embodiment of modern fashion and beauty; at once both trendsetting and classic. Yet despite his significant impact and illustrious, celebrated career one esteemed fashion photographer and devoted Warren-Tricomi customer calls Edward a “phenomenon and one of the most talented hair dressers in the world” passionate and devoted beauty pioneer and mogul Edward Tricomi will tell you he’s never worked a day in his life.
