The Alternative Hair Show 2016 – Fighting Leukaemia

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In our world of hair, beauty and fashion there is  a continual evolving and enduring journey, stimulating creativity and inspiring our peers to push their artistry to new limits.

Alternative Hair has continued to showcase artistic hairdressers from across the globe, enticing them to take their creativity to ever more daring heights without limitations, exposing their work to an enthralled audience. This creative journey has brought hairdressing teams together for the mutual benefit of our charity, Fighting Leukaemia, but has also brought them together as a global artistic force.

The 34th Alternative Hair Show took place last night at London’s Royal Albert Hall, raising a fantastic  £190,319.50 for Fighting Leukaemia.

This year’s theme: Odyssey, proved highly inspirational for the 20 artistic hair teams from across the world participating in the Show.  Combining amazing hair styling, makeup and fashion styling with impressive choreography, each show enthralled, entertained and impressed the 5,000 audience.

The 2016 Teams were presented to the audience by Alternative Hair Founder, Tony Rizzo and Worldwide President, Anthony Mascolo. Each team received a handmade award created by Wil & El Esser.

SASSOON – UK

ALTAMODA – IRELAND

ANTEO GEMINIANI – ITALY

FELICITAS – SPAIN

ROBERT MASCIAVE – UK

LASZLO HAJAS – HUNGARY

MIKEL LUZEA – SPAIN

ANNE VECK – UK

CARLO BAY – ITALY

SANRIZZ – UK

KLAUS PETER OCHS – GERMANY

BUNDY BUNDY – AUSTRIA

KOHSUKE VISUAL NETWORK – JAPAN

GOGEN – ITALY

ROBERT CROMEANS – USA

FEHRINGER – AUSTRIA

MAHOGANY – UK

SACO – UK

DMITRY VINOKUROV – RUSSIA

TIGI CREATIVE TEAM – UK

The International Visionary Award has become an important part of the evening and each year the number of global applicants has increased. This year 35 finalists presented in 3 categories: Cut & Colour, Mens and Avante-Garde each showed 1 model. The intricacy and quality of the work shown was highly impressive and it was an almost impossible task for the panel of iconic judges to select.  Tony Rizzo and Anthony Mascolo presented the awards to:

CUT & COLOUR

1st –            Pino Troncone

Runner Up –  Marese Sweeney

MEN’S

1st   –             Lin Yi Siou

Runner-up – Joel McCauley

AVANT-GARDE

1st     –            Amanda Whittome

Runner-Up – Zhilinskiy Sergey

The Alternative Hair Show also hosts the International AIPP Awards. The highly prestigious AIPP Awards this year received a new impressive record: 679 collections from 32 countries General Secretary of the AIPP and General Manager of ESTETICA Magazine USA, Spain & Latin America, Sergi Bancells, Tony Rizzo and icon colourist Annie Humphries presented the International Legend Award to Klaus Peter Ochs.

Other awards were:

Commercial Award won by Raffel Pages

Avant-Garde Award won by Angelo Seminara

Photo Award won by Anne Veck

Men’s Award won by Uros Mikic

Video Award won by Hair & More

Alternative Hair is about promoting artistic hair talent but its heart is about raising money for Fighting Leukaemia. A short film to illustrate how the money raised is invested is shown to the audience before the Charity Appeal, which was presented by show host, Linda Evans and Leukaemia survivor, 7 year old, Blue Tobin. As well as putting money into the buckets shaken throughout the theatre by a team from Bloodwise, the audience was invited to text:

      AHSW16 £5 to 70070 

The spectacular evening closed with a presentation the cheque for ££190,319.50.

 

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