Oribe
Encyclopedia
Oribe Cuban-American born, Oribe Canales, is a "celebrity hairstylist". Oribe's combination of session, celebrity and salon work spans over three decades, and he has defined the notion of fashion over the course of a career of unprecedented longevity and scope.
His collaborators include photographers, like Bill King, who introduced him to the fashion editor Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele. There was Irving Penn
, Helmut Newton
, who shot Cindy Crawford
for American Vogue
with hair that Oribe did; and others like Richard Avedon
, Patrick Demarchelier
, Annie Leibovitz
, Herb Ritts
, Francesco Scavullo
, Horst
, Craig McDean
and Steven Klein
. Oribe has worked with creative directors like Fabien Baron and Keesha Keeble; make-up artists like François Nars
, Pat McGrath
, Kevyn Aucoin
and Stephane Marais; and fashion designers like Gianni Versace
, a mentor who inspired Oribe’s tattoos, and Karl Lagerfeld
, who took the rock and roll hairstylist under his wing. And then there are the models, celebrities and icon
s - from Beverly Johnson
, to Christy Turlington
who Oribe appears with in a Vogue
spread, to Heidi Klum
and Naomi Campbell
.
In the last year alone his editorial and campaign work has been seen on the covers and pages of Vogue
, Elle
, Allure
, W
, V
and Pop.
That first credit started a long editorial career including a five-year collaboration with the photographer Steven Meisel
.
Oribe and Meisel, along with the make-up artist François Nars, were for all intents inventing the supermodel. The rise of Meisel’s team and models like Christy, Linda and Naomi was well documented. When Christy Turlington
and Naomi Campbell
soaked in a Los Angeles
hot tub smoking cigarettes for Meisel and Vogue Italia
, Oribe was the one who did their barnets.
1987. Oribe established his first salon, Oribe at Parachute. It was also during this time that Oribe became well known for his eponymous talent agency——that represented future beauty industry heavyweights like Laura Mercier
, François Nars, Kevin Mancuso, Danilo and Jimmy Paul.
in New York City (he was introduced to the cosmetics company by the model Vendela (who was its new face).
Rita Hazan, hair colour stylist spent the first ten years of her career at the Oribe Manhattan salon.
Oribe created imagery with Gianni Versace
, like the advertising portfolios by the photographer Richard Avedon
of the models Kristen McMenamy
and Nadja Auermann
or the model Stephanie Seymour
, posing with Marcus Schenkenberg
.
1992. He was asked by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
to design hair from raffia for the reopening of the Costume Institute galleries. The results, which Oribe spent months completing, decorated Ralph Pucci mannequins created specially for the occasion with Christy Turlington
’s likeness.
1995. When John F. Kennedy Jr. cast Cindy Crawford
as a midriff-baring George Washington
for the inaugural cover of his celebrity-stoked political magazine George
, Oribe styled the Revolutionary lace-front silver wig.
1997. Jennifer Lopez
called for Oribe. He was ready for a challenge outside of the fashion world and so he accompanied her to Miami to shoot the cover of her first album, On the 6
. He lightened her hair and pulled it tightly over a wig into a long ponytail. Oribe worked with her during her rise and at the heights of her millennial celebrity.
campaign, Oribe met the photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott
. Together Mert and Marcus and Oribe captured Kate Moss
as Marilyn Monroe
for W
. Then, after a Giorgio Armani
campaign shoot with the model Agyness Deyn
, they shot the rave-inspired cover story for Katie Grand’s style magazine Pop with Oribe giving Deyn’s signature pixie cut a sparkling metallic makeover brushed into shapes usually reserved for video game characters.
He enjoyed the London
creative boom with British Vogue
covers shot with Craig McDean
and pages and pages of Beth Ditto
from the band The Gossip
—an icon in the making—interpreted by Steven Klein
for Pop.
2003 Walked away from his salon in Elizabeth Arden on Fifth Avenue and moved to Florida.
2005 Opened a $1 million signature salon in Miami Beach.
2008 Partners with hair care industry veterans Daniel Kaner and Tevya Finger to launch a high-performance luxury product line under the name Oribe Hair Care.
His collaborators include photographers, like Bill King, who introduced him to the fashion editor Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele. There was Irving Penn
Irving Penn
Irving Penn was an American photographer known for his portraiture and fashion photography.-Early career:Irving Penn studied under Alexey Brodovitch at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art from which he was graduated in 1938. Penn's drawings were published by Harper's Bazaar and he...
, Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter was a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."-Early life:Newton was born in Berlin, the son of Klara...
, who shot Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford
Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Crawford is an American model. Known for her trademark mole just above her lip, Crawford has adorned hundreds of magazine covers throughout her career. She was named #3 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s...
for American Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
with hair that Oribe did; and others like Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...
, Patrick Demarchelier
Patrick Demarchelier
Patrick Demarchelier is a French fashion photographer.-Life:Born near Paris in 1943 to a modest family, he spent his childhood in Le Havre with his mother and four brothers. For his seventeenth birthday, his stepfather bought him his first Eastman Kodak camera...
, Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz
Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer.-Early life and education:Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Leibovitz is the third of six children. She is a third-generation American whose great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants, from Central and Eastern Europe. Her father's...
, Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts
Herbert "Herb" Ritts was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture.-Early life and career:...
, Francesco Scavullo
Francesco Scavullo
Francesco Scavullo was an American fashion photographer best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan and his celebrity portraits.-Biography:...
, Horst
Horst P. Horst
Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann who chose to be known as Horst P. Horst was a German-American fashion photographer.-Early life:...
, Craig McDean
Craig McDean
Craig McDean is a British fashion photographer originally from Middlewich near Manchester, but now based in New York City....
and Steven Klein
Steven Klein
Steven Klein is an American photographer based in New York.-History:After studying painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, he moved into the field of photography...
. Oribe has worked with creative directors like Fabien Baron and Keesha Keeble; make-up artists like François Nars
Nars
NARS Cosmetics is a Shiseido-owned cosmetics and skin care company founded by François Nars, make-up artist and photographer.The cosmetics line began with twelve lipsticks sold at Barneys New York. Since then, NARS have created various multi-use beauty products...
, Pat McGrath
Pat McGrath
Pat McGrath is a British make-up artist. She has been called the most influential make-up artist in the world by Vogue magazine and other commentators.-Biography:...
, Kevyn Aucoin
Kevyn Aucoin
Kevyn Aucoin was an American make-up artist and photographer.-Early life:Aucoin was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana, to parents Isidore Adrian Aucoin and Thelma Suzanne Melancon, who adopted him as an infant through Catholic Charities of Alexandria, Louisiana He...
and Stephane Marais; and fashion designers like Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Gianni Versace S.p.A., an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, makeup and home furnishings as well as clothes. He also designed costumes for the theatre and films, and was a friend of Madonna, Elton John,...
, a mentor who inspired Oribe’s tattoos, and Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel...
, who took the rock and roll hairstylist under his wing. And then there are the models, celebrities and icon
Icon
An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and in certain Eastern Catholic churches...
s - from Beverly Johnson
Beverly Johnson
Beverly Johnson is an American model, actress, and businesswoman. She made history when she rose to fame as the first black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in 1974...
, to Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington Burns is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007. She has worked on dozens of modeling contracts with companies including Maybelline Cosmetics and Versace. Turlington starred in her fashion documentary Catwalk and Isaac Mizrahi's Unzipped...
who Oribe appears with in a Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
spread, to Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum
Heidi Samuel , better known by her birth name Heidi Klum, is a German model, actress, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and occasional singer. In 2008 she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship...
and Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell is a British model. Scouted at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion world...
.
In the last year alone his editorial and campaign work has been seen on the covers and pages of Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
, Elle
Elle (magazine)
Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...
, Allure
Allure (magazine)
Allure is the leading U.S. women’s beauty magazine, published monthly by Condé Nast in New York City. It was founded in 1991 by editor in chief Linda Wells, who has been at the helm of the magazine ever since. From its inception, the magazine has been widely recognized for its intelligent,...
, W
W (magazine)
W is a monthly American fashion magazine published by Condé Nast Publications, who purchased original owner Fairchild Publications in 1999. It was created in 1971 by the publisher of sister magazine Woman's Wear Daily, James Brady. The magazine is an oversize format – ten inches wide and...
, V
V (American magazine)
V magazine is an American fashion magazine published since 1999. The magazine is printed seasonally and highlights trends in fashion, film music and art. A men's fashion quarterly entitled VMAN started as an offshoot in 2003.-History:...
and Pop.
1970s - 1980s
1976. Oribe moved to New York where he was hired to assist Garren, a celebrity hair stylist who operated one of the salons in the city. It was while working at Garren that Oribe received his first editorial credit from GQ which subsequently changed the course of his career.That first credit started a long editorial career including a five-year collaboration with the photographer Steven Meisel
Steven Meisel
Steven Meisel is an American photographer, who obtained popular acclaim with his work in US and Italian Vogue and his photographs of friend Madonna in her 1992 book Sex...
.
Oribe and Meisel, along with the make-up artist François Nars, were for all intents inventing the supermodel. The rise of Meisel’s team and models like Christy, Linda and Naomi was well documented. When Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington Burns is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007. She has worked on dozens of modeling contracts with companies including Maybelline Cosmetics and Versace. Turlington starred in her fashion documentary Catwalk and Isaac Mizrahi's Unzipped...
and Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell is a British model. Scouted at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion world...
soaked in a Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
hot tub smoking cigarettes for Meisel and Vogue Italia
Vogue Italia
Vogue Italia is the Italian edition of Vogue magazine. Owned by Condé Nast International, it is the least commercial of all editions of Vogue magazine and has been called the top fashion magazine in the world....
, Oribe was the one who did their barnets.
1987. Oribe established his first salon, Oribe at Parachute. It was also during this time that Oribe became well known for his eponymous talent agency——that represented future beauty industry heavyweights like Laura Mercier
Laura Mercier
Laura Mercier is a French make-up artist who has lent her name to a line of cosmetics.-External links:*...
, François Nars, Kevin Mancuso, Danilo and Jimmy Paul.
1990s
1991. Oribe opened his Fifth Avenue salon at Elizabeth ArdenElizabeth Arden
Florence Nightingale Graham , who went by the business name Elizabeth Arden, was a Canadian-American businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States. At the peak of her career, she was one of the wealthiest women in the world.-Biography:Arden was born in 1884 at Woodbridge, Ontario,...
in New York City (he was introduced to the cosmetics company by the model Vendela (who was its new face).
Rita Hazan, hair colour stylist spent the first ten years of her career at the Oribe Manhattan salon.
Oribe created imagery with Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Gianni Versace S.p.A., an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, makeup and home furnishings as well as clothes. He also designed costumes for the theatre and films, and was a friend of Madonna, Elton John,...
, like the advertising portfolios by the photographer Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...
of the models Kristen McMenamy
Kristen McMenamy
Kristen McMenamy is an American model. She is known for her unconventional, androgynous appearance.-Career:Born in Easton, Pennsylvania, McMenamy's modeling career mainly spanned the years 1985 to 1998, when she worked for many of the world's top designers and international fashion houses...
and Nadja Auermann
Nadja Auermann
Nadja Auermann is a German model and actress. Fashion designer Valentino once commented on her physical resemblance to Marlene Dietrich. A New York Times fashion columnist, Guy Trebay, wrote of her "ice maiden visage and pole vaulter's legs".-Biography:Auermann arrived in Paris in 1990, signing...
or the model Stephanie Seymour
Stephanie Seymour
Stephanie Michelle Seymour is an American model and actress. Seymour has modeled for many notable fashion magazines and designers, and has been photographed by several well-known photographers including Herb Ritts, Richard Avedon, Gilles Bensimon, and Mario Testino.-Career:Born in San Diego,...
, posing with Marcus Schenkenberg
Marcus Schenkenberg
Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop better known as Marcus Schenkenberg, , is a Swedish model of Dutch and Indonesian descent. He was born in Solna and has dual citizenship of both Sweden and the Netherlands...
.
1992. He was asked by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
to design hair from raffia for the reopening of the Costume Institute galleries. The results, which Oribe spent months completing, decorated Ralph Pucci mannequins created specially for the occasion with Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington Burns is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007. She has worked on dozens of modeling contracts with companies including Maybelline Cosmetics and Versace. Turlington starred in her fashion documentary Catwalk and Isaac Mizrahi's Unzipped...
’s likeness.
1995. When John F. Kennedy Jr. cast Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford
Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Crawford is an American model. Known for her trademark mole just above her lip, Crawford has adorned hundreds of magazine covers throughout her career. She was named #3 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s...
as a midriff-baring George Washington
George Washington
George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...
for the inaugural cover of his celebrity-stoked political magazine George
George (magazine)
George was a glossy monthly magazine centered on the theme of politics-as-lifestyle co-founded by John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Michael J. Berman with publisher Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. in New York City in September 1995...
, Oribe styled the Revolutionary lace-front silver wig.
1997. Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...
called for Oribe. He was ready for a challenge outside of the fashion world and so he accompanied her to Miami to shoot the cover of her first album, On the 6
On the 6
On the 6 is the debut studio album by American recording artist Jennifer Lopez, released on June 1, 1999 by Work Records. It debuted at number eight on the U.S. Billboard 200 the week of June 19, 1999, with first-week sales of 112,000 copies, remaining in the top 20 for 11 weeks and on the chart...
. He lightened her hair and pulled it tightly over a wig into a long ponytail. Oribe worked with her during her rise and at the heights of her millennial celebrity.
2000s
2003. While working on the Winter Louis VuittonLouis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Malletier – commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton , or shortened to LV – is a French fashion house founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton. The label is well known for its LV monogram, which is featured on most products, ranging from luxury trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes,...
campaign, Oribe met the photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott
Mert and Marcus
Mert and Marcus are Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, fashion photographers. Their work and style is heavily influenced and shaped by the photography of Guy Bourdin and also the use of digital manipulation of which they have pioneered the use...
. Together Mert and Marcus and Oribe captured Kate Moss
Kate Moss
Kate Moss is an English model. Moss is known for her waifish figure and popularising the heroin chic look in the 1990s. She is also known for her controversial private life, high profile relationships, party lifestyle, and drug use. Moss changed the look of modelling and started a global debate on...
as Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
for W
W (magazine)
W is a monthly American fashion magazine published by Condé Nast Publications, who purchased original owner Fairchild Publications in 1999. It was created in 1971 by the publisher of sister magazine Woman's Wear Daily, James Brady. The magazine is an oversize format – ten inches wide and...
. Then, after a Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He is known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy, with an annual turnover of $1.6 billion and a...
campaign shoot with the model Agyness Deyn
Agyness Deyn
Agyness Deyn is an English fashion model, actress and singer.-Early life:Deyn is from Failsworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester...
, they shot the rave-inspired cover story for Katie Grand’s style magazine Pop with Oribe giving Deyn’s signature pixie cut a sparkling metallic makeover brushed into shapes usually reserved for video game characters.
He enjoyed the London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
creative boom with British Vogue
Vogue (British magazine)
The British edition of Vogue is a fashion magazine that has been published since 1916.When British Vogue was launched, it was the first overseas edition of an existing fashion magazine. Under the magazine's first editor, Elspeth Champcommunal, the magazine was essentially the same as the American...
covers shot with Craig McDean
Craig McDean
Craig McDean is a British fashion photographer originally from Middlewich near Manchester, but now based in New York City....
and pages and pages of Beth Ditto
Beth Ditto
Mary Beth Patterson, known by her stage name Beth Ditto , is an American singer-songwriter, most famous for her work with the indie rock band Gossip.-Personal life:...
from the band The Gossip
Gossip (band)
Gossip is a three-piece American indie rock band formed in 1999. The band consists of singer Beth Ditto, guitarist Brace Paine and drummer Hannah Blilie. After releasing several recordings, the band broke through with their 2006 studio album, Standing in the Way of Control . A follow-up, Music for...
—an icon in the making—interpreted by Steven Klein
Steven Klein
Steven Klein is an American photographer based in New York.-History:After studying painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, he moved into the field of photography...
for Pop.
2003 Walked away from his salon in Elizabeth Arden on Fifth Avenue and moved to Florida.
2005 Opened a $1 million signature salon in Miami Beach.
2008 Partners with hair care industry veterans Daniel Kaner and Tevya Finger to launch a high-performance luxury product line under the name Oribe Hair Care.