Salon Peachy: Mover and Shaker Edward Tricomi, Master Stylist, and Master Colorist Joel Warren Turn Up the Summer and Make Peachy Deegan Blonder with a Smashing Summer Style! Warren Tricomi Continues to Earn Our Highest Recommendation. Warren Tricomi is the Official Salon of Whom You Know!
Edward and Peachy
"Everyone is different and each body is a snowflake."
-Amy Poehler in her book "Yes Please" in explaining how people are created and beauty to her children
We really like that quote, and we loved Amy's book. If each body is like a snowflake and snowflakes in tandem make the world beautiful, Joel Warren and Edward Tricomi are the ultimate blizzard-creators at their multiple salons, which now stretch as far as Tokyo. Even in the dog days of summer, they figuratively make it snow and make each and every person look their absolute best. We see gorgeous heads galore coming and going and staying to chat at the Warren Tricomi Plaza Hotel Salon, and we are proud to be one of the creations. Peachy's hair keeps looking better and better as it evolves under their masterful talents, and we could not be happier with their work. That smile is for real above! (Joel was not present at the time of the picture but we love both Edward and Joel!)
Just as important as the phenomenal workmanship and creativity is the fact that Joel and Edward truly embody joy in their vocation: they are an excellent example of this every day and as we have been five times now, we are becoming more familiar with this. They have an innate ability to know what to do to your hair to make you look even better than you personally can envision, and can craft flattering shades and styles that you didn't know you wanted until you met them.
In practically everything we do, we know exactly what we want.
Peachy is usually the one with the vision for the article, the look, the plate, the topic in whatever we write about.
When we go see Joel and Edward, we want to know what they think we want because they set the beat of the fashion hair look. Always. And we like to be fashionable and look our best.
The magic began in Joel's chair! Another fabulous aspect of Warren Tricomi is that although this is a bastion of creativity, it is also a serious business and we've always been taken on time. Last time, Peachy was slightly blonder than the previous three times. "Want to make it even blonder today?" Joel asked. We asked him what he thought, and he thought so - so now Peachy is at her blondest in quite awhile and already she's having more fun. Fun is rampant at Warren Tricomi: it's an unspoken rule. It's summer and we can easily go darker in the fall because Joel Warren possesses more taste levels than any other colorist. We are convinced he has a unique dimmer switch in his mind that knows how to turn on the light in people's hair and how to tone it down expertly.
"If you can imagine it, I can arrange it!" states Joel with his signature confidence.
You have to be extraordinarily careful with who colors your hair in this world of ours, and we have total trust in Joel. Joel painted in the highlights with panache, and Maddy his assistant perfectly added the base color. Bien sur mes amies, no red is to be seen in Mademoiselle Peachy's coiffure (get excited for a tale of Marie-Antoinette's hairdresser coming soon by our friend author Will Bashor!) If this is your first time reading Salon Peachy, please know that she does not care for any red in her hair.
After Maddy washed Peachy's hair, Lisamarie, Edward's assistant, did an expert blowout. The picture above speaks for itself!
Edward thought our style looked already good, but he made it look even better just cleaning it up a bit with his extraordinary dry-cut process.
He just knows what to do. So we wanted to chat!
How is his salon in Tokyo doing? "It's going well, it's doing great," answered Edward with his upbeat positive nature. "I'm getting good reports!"
How's the summer here going? "We have such a good time working every day! It's not like work."
When you have the good fortune to sit in Edward's chair, you aren't going to necessarily talk about how many inches you want lopped off. He already knows by just looking at you. Instead, when you sit in Edward's chair he will ask you if you are ready to Rock and Roll!
Start the music.
Book your appointment.
More fabulous tips from Edward:
"Hot new hair cuts! The shag is back and in a new way! It's very hot. It's very interesting look for summer: free and easy."
Peachy was not here for the 1960's and maybe you weren't either. We asked him how he defines shag. "It's like we did it back in the 60's! I was here! It's short on top, long in the back, short on the sides, and very layered. It's not swelling up now because somebody famous is wearing it: it's because kids that have real style are wearing it - they're ahead of the real Hollywood crowd. In the streets, it's the hip haircut.
Short hair is also hot for the summertime. [The most important factor to consider is is how the] cut will look on the person: we cut to the person."
Another fantastic tip from Edward is the MAGIC SET.
Watch:
Essentially the Magic Set is putting your hair in a high ponytail and separating it into four sections going from front to back in sequence. If you looked at the profile, you'd see four circles next to each other if you used rollers, but it is quicker to use a curling iron for each curl. In five minutes you will have fabulous hair! Very quick and very easy to do.
Warren Tricomi was first featured in 2014:
in January 2015:
in March 2015:
and most recently in May 2015:
They have several locations, (see Peachy's Professionals or go to the conclusion of this review to see the list) and we always visit The Plaza Hotel.
Edward Tricomi and Joel Warren continue to earn our Highest Recommendation, and our experience at Warren Tricomi can't be beat.
The Best Salon in Manhattan and beyond
&
Official Salon of Whom You Know
One West 58th Street at The Plaza Hotel Floor 2, New York
1117 Madison Avenue, New York
125 Fifth Avenue, Floor Two, New York
1 East Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut
64 Park Place, East Hampton, New York
609 Route 35, Shrewsbury, New Jersey
2201 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida
Edward Tricomi is a Mover and Shaker:
About the Warren Tricomi Salon Business from their website:
Master colorist Joel Warren and master stylist Edward Tricomi are authorities in the world of hair. Their unrivaled expertise sets trends and has defined beauty across the globe. Joel’s talent for customized hair color and Edward’s high precision dry cuts make the Warren-Tricomi Salons a one-stop beauty destination.
In 1990, the duo collaborated with business guru Roxana Pintilie, a third and equal partner and the driving force behind every facet of the business. Collectively they debuted the first Warren-Tricomi Salon in midtown Manhattan. In 2008, they opened the luxurious Plaza Hotel flagship location and today the thriving empire features eight U.S salons, each designed uniquely to fit its geographic location with a modern twist.
Beyond the salon business, Edward and Joel continue to cultivate their namesake product line, Warren-Tricomi Haircare, the first to be developed by both a colorist and a stylist. Together, the pair is a force to be reckoned with, constantly striving to reach new heights within the beauty industry.
Joel Warren is one of the world’s most recognized colorists, but he started out as an aspiring chef. Inspired by his girlfriend, a beautician, Joel decided to try his hand at beauty school. In his early twenties, he took a job at a Manhattan salon and was fascinated by the process of mixing formulas. He found that the rewarding feeling of creating beautiful hair color was similar to coming up with the perfect recipe.
Joel Warren, Master Colorist and Co-Founder at Warren-Tricomi Salons
As renowned colorist Louis Licari’s first male assistant, Joel learned from the best. He became widely known for his ability to perfectly customize every client’s color using advanced techniques. Modern in his methods, he is adamant about constantly expanding his horizons, keeping up with the latest hair trends and mastering the skills for creating them. What sets him apart is his masterful eye for contrast, shadow and depth.
Joel joined forces with master stylist Edward Tricomi and business guru Roxana Pintilie to open a salon in Midtown Manhattan in 1990. In 2008, they launched the luxurious Plaza Hotel flagship location and today the team leads a thriving business of eight salons in the U.S., each designed uniquely to fit its geographic location with a modern twist. Joel and Edward also own a product line, Warren-Tricomi Haircare, the first to be developed by both a colorist and a stylist.
Edward Tricomi, Master Stylist and Co-Founder at Warren-Tricomi Salons
Linda Fargo – “Edward is THE Rock Star of the hair biz. He plays his scissors with as much groove, intuition, precision, finesse and inspired excellence as the Hall of Famer that he is. He created my signature bob and I am his forever!”
Legendary Warren-Tricomi Salons co-founder Edward Tricomi is known for demanding excellence in everything he does. Be it hair, fashion, or music – when Tricomi is involved, perfection isn’t just expected: it’s inevitable.The roots (no pun intended) of his renowned career began after a suggestion from his sister that he try cutting hair to supplement his income as a musician. Growing up, Edward read Vogue religiously, devouring and absorbing the art within it. Moreover, as the grandson of a fashion designer, he was always surrounded and inspired by the world of fashion. Decades later, Edward is perhaps the most iconic and influential hair historian of our era.
Working his first New York City salon job in the 1970s (working with the likes of Bianca Jagger and Salvador Dali) inspired in him an ambition to create his own beauty empire. He began doing editorial hairstyling, landing his unique and innovative work on numerous prominent fashion magazine spreads and covers.
Edward achieved the position of Art Director at the Jaxavier Salon, widely considered to be the epicenter of style at the time. There, Edward was introduced to world famous stylist and Vogue editor Polly Mellen, whose profound influence helped propel his career to the next level. Through mutual respect and admiration for each other’s talent and work, Polly booked Edward to collaborate alongside iconic fashion photographers including Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier and Helmut Newton. Edward also met Deborah Turbeville, with whom he began a 40 yearlong professional relationship, each one inspiring and impacting the other’s illustrious career. The transformational artistic integrity, avant-garde travel and art exposure that Edward’s editorial career afforded him continue to inspire him decades later.
Glowing reviews from fashion photographers and a sparkling reputation prompted fashion designers to take note of Tricomi, who soon began styling the looks for fashion shows for brands including Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Emanuel Ungaro, Calvin Klein, Dior and many other top tier designers around the world. Edward’s innate understanding of hair and fashion coupled with his visionary ideas regarding their potential to intersect in order to enhance one another propelled him to the forefront of the industry.
Working at strong editorial-based salons helped Edward hone (and eventually perfect) his craft, leading to the development of his signature dry-hair precision technique and rapid-fire method of cutting, which is frequently compared to an artist sketching. It also serves as the inspiration for his loving nickname, “Edward Scissorhands.” This unusual style of cutting mimicks the hair’s natural state with ‘perfectly imperfect,’ abstract layers and allows him to see how the cut will look in the hair’s natural state. Edward is known and respected for this intellectualized approach to hair by elevating the process, he is also elevating the result and ability to understand how each haircut needs to be uniquely tailored and designed to suit the individual for whom it is for.
At the top of his game, Edward decided to leave the editorial world and focus on building his namesake salon business. In 1989, he joined forces with colorist Joel Warren to open the first Warren-Tricomi Salon on East 57th Street in New York City. In addition to fashion and music, Edward has a strong passion for architecture his keen artistic eye, understanding of structure, and dedicated passion have lead him to be integral in the design and layout of every single Warren-Tricomi Salon. The original location closed in 2009 when the salon moved to its current flagship local in the iconic and incomparable Plaza Hotel. Each Warren-Tricomi Salon is incredibly unique, with different décor to reflect the location and personality and essence of the city or neighborhood within which it resides. The brand has a rich history of designing and building some of the most unique salons in the world.
Warren-Tricomi prides itself on being more than just a hair and beauty salon. All stylists trained at Warren-Tricomi are required to study and become experts in not only styling, but also fashion history. It is fundamental to the Warren-Tricomi brand that this extensive knowledge and perspective is present in every single haircut given in their salons. Few other salons can also make this claim, in the same way that few other salons are perpetually and actively on the forefront of beauty and fashion in the way Warren-Tricomi has been for the last 25 years. This significance and influence is evident in many facets of Tricomi’s business, one of which is the fact that they do at least three fashion shows each season, all over the world.
Throughout his prolific career Edward has mentored many well-known stylists including Italo Gregorio, Patrick Melville and Ric Popino. He has worked with virtually every celebrity, including Barbara Streisand, Mick Jagger, Nicky and Paris Hilton, the Kardashians, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon. Edward is constantly garnering inspiration from the people he works with: models like Patti Hansen, makeup artists like Pat McGrath and photographers like Roxanne Lowit.
The legacy of Edward and the Warren-Tricomi Salons continue to be a driving force and influential cornerstone of both the beauty and fashion industries. Their cutting-edge techniques, coupled with their deep appreciation and understanding of history and those who have come before and inspired them, enables Edward’s business to be the embodiment of modern fashion and beauty; at once both trendsetting and classic. Yet despite his significant impact and illustrious, celebrated career one esteemed fashion photographer and devoted Warren-Tricomi customer calls Edward a “phenomenon and one of the most talented hair dressers in the world” passionate and devoted beauty pioneer and mogul Edward Tricomi will tell you he’s never worked a day in his life.
