{"id":503,"date":"2013-11-05T13:07:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T13:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelbeautysalon.co.uk\/hair\/behind-the-quilt-holiday-vision-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-10-28T17:27:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T17:27:47","slug":"behind-the-quilt-holiday-vision-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelbeautysalon.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/11\/05\/behind-the-quilt-holiday-vision-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the quilt: Holiday Vision 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span><\/span> AT THE COVER<\/span><\/p>\n

Hair: Luis Alvarez for Aquage<\/p>\n

Photography: Luis Alvarez for Aquage<\/p>\n

Hair tech: Lauren Reminick<\/p>\n

Make-up: Wanda Alvarez<\/p>\n

Fashion styling: Patric Chauvez<\/p>\n

Location: Aquage Academy, aquage.com<\/p>\n

Luis Alvarez is a superstitious guy. \u201cI don\u2019t usually wish to go backwards,\u201d he explains. \u201cWhen all of the buzz in regards to the movie revival of The good Gatsby started, I resisted. I didn\u2019t desire to do a retro story. I always encourage my Aquage Artistic team and the complete stylists we educate and collaborate with to maintain looking and moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Alvaraz admits that he loved the 2013 movie and had \u201cknown Fitzgerald\u2019s story forever.\u201d What he really enjoyed, however, was how director Baz Luhrmann juxtaposed modern and futuristic elements\u2014like Jay-Z\u2019s rap music into the score\u2014 with the classic novel\u2019s tale of excess, fantasy, illusion.<\/p>\n\n
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To stay inspired
during your holiday
rush, remember
to take time to
stretch creative
boundaries.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

He started rethinking how he would interpret Gatsby style right into a photo shoot. When the chance arose to do a vacation collection for contemporary and partners CosmoProf and Armstrong McCall, he knew the timing was right. He would dedicate a session of the August 2013 Aquage Academy in Cleveland to crafting a vacation vision of Gatsby to inspire stylists working through their busiest time of year. He was committed, however, to looking firmly forward, even \u201cfuturistic.\u201d And he would balance the intense excess theme of Gatsby with the intense discipline of working with only two styling tools\u2014a flatiron and Aquage Working Spray. The result’s the \u201cGATSB 3000\u201d collection, featured at the cover and beginning on page 48.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, if we’re going to go way obtainable with the hair, let\u2019s use only 1 product. Working Spray is extremely utilitarian. We would have liked to expose what happens if you max out what you do with it day-to-day for your salon. It\u2019s great practice for any professional. Crucial thing is to provide yourself control.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the designs are beautifully avant garde, they’re all rooted in classic shapes tied to the Gatsby era and creative influences, and so they all represent the shopper hair trends and thermal styling techniques that Alvarez calls \u201ctextural transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cover look is a classic bob taken to a thermal extreme, with futuristic, flatironed edge. The gathering looks also channel the Art Deco combination of heterosexual and curved lines, diamond patterns and overlapping layers, in addition to Alvarez\u2019s interpretation of French\/Asian influences accented with heavy bangs and bobbed shapes.<\/p>\n

To maintain opulent, extreme and future themes, he used a silver fashion palette, marrying $6,000 Gucci couture gowns with $40 jewelry from Top Shop.<\/p>\n

One thing Alvarez isn\u2019t superstitious about is sharing his ideas and his influences.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m blessed with having always had a network of people that have helped me curate a definite aesthetic in art, fashion, music, design\u2014you name it. I\u2019ve always passed along what I\u2019ve discovered to my team members, to stylists who come to our education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alvarez is now using social media to expand that network much more (search and prefer \u201cLuis Alvarez, Aquage Co-Founder\u201d on Facebook.)<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who’re secure of their art form always share and reveal their sources. Per week, I\u2019ll be posting something that inspires artistry and ultimately our craft as hairdress\u00acers,\u201d he promises. \u201cWe\u2019ll keep looking forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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