Vartali Hair Salon Celebrates 46th Year of Cutting Edge Chic
January 23, 2024
Originally written by: Daniel Quintanilla
Republished by Alarina Project for Vartali Salon
VARTAN VARTALI
In a world where fashion moves in cycles, for hair salons, longevity is the secret to mastering old-school cool. With sixty years of experience and 45 years keeping his salon in business, Vartan Vartali, founder of Vartali Salon, has mastered numerous trends, and invented others. “Carolina Herrera comes in weekly,” he says. His long list of celebrity clientele also includes soprano Renée Fleming, actress Laura Linney, and singer Gwen Stefani. Popular recognition of Vartali’s ability to innovate fresh looks for his clients dates back decades: his short, striking Gamine cut was featured in late eighties issues of Vogue and the New York Times’s fashion section.
PIET SINTHUCHAI OF VARTALI SALON
Mr. Vartali’s French upbringing and English training background unite to lend him the versatility needed to reinterpret retro looks making a comeback into fresh, modern innovations for his clients. Vartali Salon’s creative director, Piet Sinthuchai, cites the French Bob as an example. “It’s one of my favorites because it’s such a classic,” he says, “I very much enjoy coming up with novel ways to reconceptualize it.”
Piet Sinthuchai - Creative Director
Currently, Vartali Salon is located on 57th Street and Park Avenue, a boutique reinterpretation of its previous facilities in similarly prestigious luxury venues like The Galleria and the Four Seasons Building. The key to staying in business, Mr. Vartali states, is to be fully dedicated to the client rather than to charge exorbitant prices. Indeed, most of his clients are referred through word of mouth, and the salon has outlived many of its contemporaries that opened at around the same time.
On February 29th, Vartali Salon will host a VIP party to celebrate 46 years in business, as well as its one year anniversary in its current location. The event will feature Vartali’s reimaging of ‘70s and ‘80s hairstyles on models wearing vintage performance gowns on loan from singer Jane Morgan’s “In My Style” collection. Mr. Vartali hopes to continue cutting hair for as long as possible, giving current and potential clients some time yet to experience his combination of practiced artistry and the vision required to stay, as long as he has, at the crest of the fashion wave.
