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International celebrity hairstylist
wendy
iles
Attention: Editor News
release 30th January,
2008 iles 1
Wendy
celebrates her career in style
Millions of people around the world have been admiring the glamorous
hair creations of Wendy Iles for more than a decade, usually without
knowing she created them.
Her hair creations have been viewed in magazines, television
commercials and advertising billboards in Australia, United Kingdom,
Europe, Japan, United States and other countries.
Now they can be viewed in a new coffee-table book of fine-art photography
dedicated to her.
The book presents a selection of photographs from her archive of fashion
and beauty hairstyles created in Europe during the last 15 years.
Wendy, a
veteran hairstylist of international renown, is celebrating her 25-year
career with
the publication of the book. It features many of her most outstanding
hairstyles created for such prestige clients asVogue, Harpers Bazaar,
Chanel, Louis Vuiton, Alexander McOueen, Gucci, Prada, Penelope Cruz,
Monica Bellucci and Dita von Tesse.
Featured on the cover of Archive is international top
model Nathalia Vodianova.
Archive,
the 228-page book on Wendy Iles, is edited by Joachim Baldauf
and Claudia Siedel and published by Printkultur in Germany.
Publishers are releasing the book for sale in Australia on the first of
February. They have already released it in the USA, England, Germany and
France. It will be available from selected bookstores in these
countries and worldwide on the internet from the publisher’s web site
at www.printkultur.de .
The price of Archive bought from the web site is 49.95
euros (about $A83) plus shipping. The ISBN code of the book is
978-3-00-023631-0.
Wendy says, “I’m so delighted that publisher Joachim Baldauf has
chosen to publish a book on my hairstyles.
“I hope it will inspire a lot of hairstylists, fashion designers and
art directors around the world.”
Wendy decided at the age of six, when she was cutting her doll’s hair
and growing up in Thirstane,
Tasmania, that she wanted to become a hairdresser.
She
opened her own salon in nearby Devonport at the age of 16 with the help
of her parents. Too young and inexperienced to manage the salon, she
travelled to London in the late ‘70s for advanced training under
grand master of hairstyling Vidal Sassoon.
When she returned to Tasmania with her new training skills, the
salon became an overnight success. Her business grew from two to 16
staff within six months, with a six-week waiting list for clients.
She retrained all her senior staff in the new Sassoon cutting and
styling technique.
Soon Wendy was approached by Australian Vogue, in Sydney, and after
several assignments with them decided to become a full-time freelance
hairdresser.
After several years freelancing in Sydney, she left Australia 20
years ago and worked in New York then went to Paris 15 years ago.
She has
been working ever since as a freelance hairstylist based in Paris and
working between Paris, London and New York. She has had so many
prestigious and famous clients over the years that she has become a
celebrity in her own right.
Wendy’s clients have included:
Magazines Vogue,
Elle, L‘Officiel, Mixte, i-D, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Harpers Bazaar,
Amica, CitizenK, Ten and V;
Advertisers
Christian Dior, Chanel, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Swarovski, Boucheron,
Cacharel, Sonia Rykiel, Nina Ricci, Geurlain, Lancôme, H&M, Guess,
Astor Cosmetics, Nivea, Palmolive, Clairol, Schwarzkopf, Herbal Essence,
Wella, L‘Oréal and Pantene;
Celebrities
Monica Bellucci, Dianne Kruger, Penelope Cruz, Chloe Sevigny, Dita Von
Tesse, Cat Deeley, Juliette Lewis, Amira Casar, Marion Cotillard,
Lambert Wilson, Charlotte Gainsbourg; Charlotte Rampling; and
World
acclaimed photographers
Jean Paul Goude, Karl Lagerfeld, Ruven Afandor, Koto Bolofo, Rankin,
Tyen, Ellen von Unwerth, Ralph Mecke,, Christophe Kutner, Felix
Lammers, Manuela Pavesi, Louis Decamps, Zanna, Simon Emmett, Daniele
Duella and Iango Henzi, Indlekofer and Knoepfel, Vincent Peters, Eric
Traoré, Boris and Sol, Jean Baptist Mondino, Phil Poynter.
Born in
Latrobe, Tasmania, Wendy still thinks of herself as Australian although
she is now resident in France. “I am and always will be Australian,
“ she says.
“I love my country and miss my family very much,” she says.
Wendy schedules her work so that she and her husband, Jacques Masi, and
12-year-old daughter, Beatrice, can visit her family once a year in
Tasmania.
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To illustrate this story, download images here: www.wb-pr.com/wi/wi.htm
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Media contacts: Wendy Iles, email wendy.iles@gmail.com
, phone 0011 33 6990 03027; or Wal Baker, email wal@wb-pr.com
, phone 612 9416 7111.
Wendy Iles
Landline: 0011 33 1643 80808
Mobile: 0011 33 699003027
Fax: 0011 33 164380021 Email:
wendy.iles@gmail.com
Web: www.wendyiles.com .
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