Fashion

Inside the Super-VIP Hairdresser at The US Open

." I only won and also I want bangs," Croatian tennis celebrity Donna Vekiu0107 announces Friday afternoon of the US Open. She is actually only beaten Peyton Stearns-- and also after stretching and showering-- her upcoming deter pre-press association is the petit Julien Farel pop-up beauty shop hidden inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Stadium. "I had been waiting all period to view Julian and also obtain whacks encouraged through Margot Robbie." Much more than twenty years earlier, hairstylist Julien Farel moved toward the United States Ping Pong Association along with a suggestion: a salon where ping pong players could visit for a haircut, design, or even yet another type of self-care in the course of the United States Open, among one of the most high-intensity competitors of their year. "It took all of them 5 years to okay me," Farel, now 16 years right into the beauty shop alliance at the Open, informs me with a smile. "I was actually extremely chronic considering that I recognized this would be a perk for a lot of sportsmens. As well as I corrected. Right now, they await this instant to follow in and receive a haircut." Many of the sporting activity's biggest titles have actually sat inside this beauty salon, which is actually only available in the course of the 2 full weeks of the competition: "I cut Rafael Nadal's hair coming from long to quick in 2010, that took place right here and also it was actually a big offer. Everyone coming from Billie Jean King to [Martina] Navratilova has actually partaken these office chairs. Our company possessed Coco here straight after she gained in 2014's event, also." Vekiu0107 and her brand-new bangs, recently reduced by Julien Farel.Captured On Film through Caroline Tompkins.