Elysian Magazine Fall Issue Launch – 2023

Photos: Helen Oppenheim. Collage helenoppenheim.com
The Fall issue of Elysian Magazine, a handsome, beautifully produced women’s lifestyle magazine published quarterly about Women Inspiring Women, fashion, art, culture and more, was launched last night at the National Arts Club. Publisher, Karen Floyd (business woman, former Prosecutor and Judge, CEO of Paladium Group) hosted the elegant event where everyone was asked to wear black and gold, not that everyone took note. (I did!! Right down to my gold eyeshadow, jewelry, watch – and I’m a silver woman!) Never mind, everyone looked elegant! The cover featured Dr. Christina Rahm, who provides solutions to the world that help people, animals and the environment. Here are just a few photos. Larger and more to come on social media.
Top Row, L-R : Dr. Christina Rahm, cover women … Karen Floyd, Publisher Elysian Magazine with Brigitte Segura (fashiondailymag) … Me (Photo Fred J. DeVito)
2nd Row : Luciana Pampalone in gold crown … Carolyn Schoepf
Bottom Row : Bright Young Things … Influencer David Perry with blue beard and brows … Dawson, who gilded his jacket himself … an elegant jumpsuit.
Hiroko Koshino @ RakutenFWT SS2024

Photos: Zigen courtesy Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo. Collage:helenoppenheim.com
The designs Hiroko Koshino showed at Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo for Spring/Summer 2024 were surreal, shapes with artistic curves, straight lines waved softly, gracefully.
The hair designs by Shiseido were surreal, shapes with artistic curves, layered bobs with hair color contrast and unbalanced cuts, avant-garde, interesting. To see more of the collection and the hair, this video is worth seeing – CLICK HERE
Hair: Tadashi Harada, Shiseido … Makeup: Setsuko Suzuki … Photos: Zigen, courtesy Rakkuten Fashion Week Tokyo
CommentDover Street Market Fashions Wow – 2023

Photos: Helen Oppenheim. Collage by helenoppenheim.com
I love The Dover Street Market. It is a department store and exhibition space like no other, as inspiring as any museum, created by Rei Kawakubo of the Japanese label Commes des Garcons and her husband Adrian Joffe. The store sells high fashion and streetwear brands, most unorthodox, very different to fashion stores fashions. Kawakubo has described Dover Street Market as ‘beautiful chaos.”
Top L-R : On Friday, August 5th, we were greeted by a tray with champagne and wine at the door, and on some floors … Gucci dress … Gucci shoes … Melitta Baumeister shoes.
Center : Bizzotto Gioielli W Jewelry had just arrived. The jewelry is all exquisite and beautiful.
Bottom L-R : Claire wearing Commes des Garcons … Black and white exhibition dresses by Commes des Garcons … Dress by Chopova Lowena … Christopher in Modluxeyewear Glasses.
Originally located on Dover Street in Mayfair, London, now in New York City (160 Lexington, entrance on 30th Street) as well as Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing and Los Angeles
CommentCillian Murphy, Hair Icon, SuperStar – 2023

Photos: BBC, Netflix, Universal Pictures, Gentleman’s Journal, Getty, Google
I saw Ciliian Murphy in the hit movie “Oppenheimer.” J. Robert Oppenheimer was the Father of the Atomic bomb . And the movie is brilliant. I predict Cillian Murphy as a new SuperStar. He is very strong in the Universal movie which will get many Oscars for sure, probably at least one for Murphy, and one for Christopher Nolan, writer, director, the man who made it all happen and is running a blockbuster marketing campaign (accolades for that alone.) “I did insist on scheduling around Cillian’s haircut,” Nolan has said “because I’m very allergic to wigs in movies.” To see the official trailer of the movie, CLICK HERE The hair won’t set any trends in this movie but it does vary as the years go by. But maybe men will wear more hats, as Oppenheimer does in this movie, probably often because the hair was at the wrong length for the scene!!!
After being bowled over by the “Oppenheimer” movie, I was motivated to go back and see Murphy in the BBC’s “Peaky Blinders” with 6 seasons on Netflix, which started in 2013 and ended in 2022, but is still available. Cillian Murphy is so charismatic, he almost jumps out of the tv set of this British period drama which takes place from 1919 to 1933, created by Steven Knight. Murphy stars as crime boss Tommy Shelby and became a hair icon because of his undercut/fade with length on top. Which many cast members also wear. To see the “Gentleman’s Journal” article with more details on the hair, CLICK
To see a trailer of “Peaky Blinders” Season 1, CLICK HERE
Barbie Bubble Pink Hair Trending – 2023

Photos: Helen Oppenheim
Expect to see more bubble pink hair colors inspired by the hit Barbie Movie based on that famous Mattel doll. In fact, expect to see more bubble pink everything.
Left: New Zealand Blogger Anthea Hayley photographed at New York Fashion Week for Spring 2014 with her Evo pinked hair shaded by Carlos Elias (Helmut, Aukland) who re-did her roots 4 weeks after the original pinking which she said “were now fading so the newly-colored roots made for something more interesting than all-over fresh color.” This photo was archived in the Seen on Scene album on my website. It is a particularly interesting album, for more inspo from then still relevant today, CLICK HERE
The back view bubble pink hair with pretty flowers to the right was by Martino Cartier, NewJersey/Hotheads Extensions, photographed on the Main Stage at the International Beauity Show(IBS) in 2015.
Photos: Helen Oppennheim
CommentNAHA 2024 Entry Now Open to 9.21.2023

NAHA 2024 Entry Now Open to 9.21.2023
NAHA 2024, The North American Hairstyling Awards, have announced Entry is open for the 35th Annual Professional Beauty Association event, to take place on the East Coast for the first time, in Orlando, in conjunction with Premiere Orlando, on June 2, 2024. For information, how to enter and rules for the Professional Beauty Event of the Year, NAHA 2024 CLICK HERE. Time to be inspired. There are 14 categories and plenty of opportunities to shine.
The images here show two photos by the 2023 NAHA. Avant Garde Winner, Casey Carey of My Darling Ivy Salon, NYC., who had won Hairstylist of the Year in 2022.
Hair: Cassie Carey, My Darling Ivy Salon, NYC … Makeup: Deney Adam … Wardrobe Stylist: Altorrin Mcintyize … Models, Left: Amadiah Yehudah, and Right: Janine Tondu … Location: Blonde and Co NYC … Photos: Richard Monsieurs (Courtesy Pro Beauty Association)
CommentEntry is Open for NAHA 2024 – 2023

Photo: Gary Barragan (Courtesy Pro Beauty Association)
Time to rev up those creative juices. Entry is open for NAHA 2024, now through September 21, 2023. The annual event will take place on the East Coast for the first time, in Orlando, in conjunction with Premiere Orlando, on June 2, 2024.
“A woman’s face is not something to be patched and spot-touched, but rather it is a unique canvas on which to create a one of a kind piece of art,” according to Isidro Valencia, who was nominated in the Makeup Artist of the Year category for NAHA 2023.
To win a NAHA award, artists submit their collections in 14 creative categories of hair, makeup, and education excellence.
Makeup: Isidro Valencia, Matthew Tyldesley Hair Artist, New Albany, Indiana … Wardrobe Stylist: Shirin Ghorbanian … Photo: Gary Barragan (Courtesy Pro Beauty Association)
CommentThe New Chic Warren Tricomi Salon – 2023

Collage Helen Oppenheim. Photographers: Unknown

Photo: Jillian Heft
Get ready, set, roll. Go Glam,. At the new chic exquisite Warren Tricomi Salon on Upper East Side on Madison Avenue which just opened. It’s where socialites, celebs, influencers and all those who want the smartest hair go for cuts, color, style or treatments offering the best in hair artistry and the science of hair transformation.
Edward Tricomi, the driving force behind the Warren Tricomi Salons, Hair Tastemaker, Trend Setter, Lead Stylist, and Roxana Pintilie, Business Magnate, co-founded and co-own 3 U.S and 9 international upscale salons where every stylist has to work to Edward’s very high expectations, all of whom serve apprenticeships before they put scissors to the hair. He is celebrated for his high-precision haircuts, always on trend, and he still does the best bobs in the biz!
The new salon, located at 969 Madison Avenue (at 76th Street, above Zitomers) is collaborating with world famous chef, Jean Georges. A custom menu will be offered, which clients can order within an app with the help of Luna, an A1 Assistant Robot. Not sure how that works but it sounds interesting. For more info and to book an appointment at any of the US Salons, go to https://warrentricomi.com/
Salon Architect: http://atelierny.com/ … Collage by helenoppenheim.com, Photographers Unknown … Salon Photographer: Jillian Heft
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