Alternative Hair Show 2017 Visionary - Utopia - London

ALTERNATIVE HAIR SHOW - 15th OCTOBER 2017 The 35th anniversary Alternative Hair Show, UTOPIA, was always going to be a poignant and emotional evening for founder Tony Rizzo, as indeed it is, every year he remembers his son, Valentino, and continues his personal mission to find a 100% cure for childhood Leukaemia and other blood cancers. It is also an enormous celebration of the artistry and dedication of hairdressers. Brought together on stage at the incredible Royal Albert Hall in London, UTOPIA pushed creative boundaries as each of the Alternative Hair Artistic Teams showed their interpretation of the theme. Premier sponsor Wella, was thanked for the enduring support the company has given since the beginning of Alternative Hair, and presented on stage the 10 winners of the International Trend Vision Awards. The Charity sponsors for the evening were: Denman, Infringe, Linda Beauty, Parlux, Revlon, Sebastian and TIGI The evening commenced with the International Visionary Award, sponsored by TIGI and presented by Anthony Mascolo, International President of Alternative Hair, together with Tony Rizzo. Each of the finalists in the categories: Cut & Colour, Men’s and Avant-Garde, presented one model in what was a colourful and impressive show. It had proven to be an incredibly difficult task to select the winners and all the finalists were congratulated on their entries. The runners-up were: Cut & Colour – Ryu Kyogoku Mens’ - Jonas Wixner Avant-Garde- Chrystofer Benson The winners were: Cut & Colour – Lucian Busuioc Mens’ – Chris O’Riordan Avant-Garde- Jose Garcia Benitez Over the next 3 hours the Artistic Teams from across the globe showed their fantastic work to a totally enthralled audience. The teams showing were: From the UK SEBASTIAN CREATIVE TEAM From Ireland HUGH CAMPBELL From France CYRILL BRUNE From the Czech Republic PETRA MECHUROVA From the UK SACO From Austria BUNDY BUNDY From the USA CHARLIE PRICE From the UK ANNE VECK From Italy GOGEN From the UK TIGI CREATIVE TEAM From the UK SASSOON From Japan KOHSUKE VISUAL NETWORK From Austria FEHRINGER From the UK HOB From the USA ROBERT CROMEANS From Austria KLAUS PETER OCHS From the UK ALAN EDWARDS From Russia DMITRY VINOKUROV From Italy CARLO BAY From the UK SANRIZZ The second half of the Show opened with the AIPP international awards. Roberto Pissimiglia, President of the AIPP and Publisher of Estetica Network announced the Alternative Hair & AIPP Legends Award that was presented to Patrick Cameron by Robert Lobetta. Patrick then presented the AIPP awards to: Sanrizz, Mark Leeson, Candice McKay, Amparo Carrantala and Jason Hall. Alternative Hair is of course also about raising much-needed funds for Fighting Leukaemia. A film of this year’s Children’s Party, opened the charity appeal. Alternative Hair Host, Linda Evans and Alternative Hair Trustee, Douglas Osborne, introduced the appeal and were joined on stage by Blue Tobin and his family. The appeal wasn’t just about asking people to give generously, but was also an appeal to register as a stem cell donor with www.dkms.org