European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Kenneth at work in his Salon in new primping Beauty Salon supplicants sorcerers with scissors by Georgia Dullea new York times on her first visit to Monsieur marcs Beauty Salon in Betsy Blooming Dale stared into the smiled and said today we have just the next time we will get maybe someday we will be patting her new she hurried off to catch a plane Home to los leaving Marc de Coster to wonder How his style would survive the the next Day Bloomingdale telephoned the Man who would later become first Hairdresser to her Good Friend Nancy never mind the she told were in the strange and enchanted world of the Beauty the Hairdresser May be Many things to Many to the Rich and the he May be a father a an a dear to the beauties whose faces appear in fashion magazines or on television he is More of a technical to Ordinary women who Lead Ordinary he is a Friendly sorcerer with a wave of the makes them feel a Little a Little a Little More then there area Small number of women who profess to have problems with hairdressers in new York cites top although for reasons perhaps Best known to they continue to patronize seen through their the Salon is a source of instant intimidation All those Wavy Walls and mirrors and Art Deco other customers inspire envy Ery where you look theres a thin blonde with Cheek the hairdressers themselves seem arrogant and Remote i dont dare Tell him How i want my hair he gets so and these Are not incompetent says mar Lene Ive seen executives who would never be intimidated in a business situation almost reduced to supplicants in a Beauty and these women Are paying and Fedin is a sales executive for a fabric company and the Winner in a recent Power struggle with a Hairdresser she wanted to make me into a Punk a similar Battle was won by Anne she is a press agent for not a Stuffy she did not fancy a Pink Streak in her hair and told her Hairdresser i stood up to but i Felt she admitted with a to its a but to its an Art he wanted to try something new i i Felt new York times Bill Cunningham 3 coif Feur Monsieur Marc kissing a clients Xavier stylists sometimes if you like your you want his approx Why is it that otherwise competent women experience twinges of insecurity when they Don those Little Salon smocks the masters new York stylists such As Monsieur Marc or Kenneth or Chalk it up to bad feelings about themselves or bad experiences in lesser sometimes we have to be the victims for what has happened to them in the Xavier Zeitounian said with a we have to understand and make them More relaxed about to have a sense of humor about but other those who teach women to get what they want through assertive training consider the problem deeper and far More in Many women Lack the Basic skills required to communicate their needs to the they in other they fail to use the skills because of vague and admittedly irrational fears that the Hairdresser will Reta Liate by ruining their Perla Knie finds that women in her assertiveness train ing workshops View hairdressers As they do doctors or lawyers As authority of some hairdressers play into this by using negative Knie pointed they will be Curt or unresponsive to any request a woman makes so she wont dare bring it up Why Doest the woman leave Knie laughed and con ceded that she once put up with a haughty Hairdresser because he kept telling if it want for youd still look like she said like Many Wom she chose to believe that her Hairdresser possessed some magical knowledge that would make me look right and that the known misery is better than the other women say they hesitate to switch hairdressers or even salons for fear of being labelled a promiscuous a who once left Eric for Pamela and then returned to recalls being terrified that her infidelity would be i invented this elaborate Story about being she not hairdressers deny that they Are such temperamental or dictatorial although they do not deny that a handful of customers might have this the they is that no Hairdresser of any reputation can afford to ignore a clients preferences and that the worst client May be the one who expresses no prefer ence at every race in while a new client will appear in Kenneths chair and say youre the do whatever you experience has taught Kenneth Battelle to be wary of such i dont think i should Cut your hair he tells her go Home and think about it or look through these magazines and Tell me what you think is pretty noting that hair is a woman Security Marc i put myself in the clients he and always i when the hair is too she is very and you you Are the worst hair Dresser in the february 1981 the stars and stripes Page 11