SHAUN MITHA and Yuri Lieu, with trophies, of Hatz Hair Design placed first and second In a
visual cutting competition sponsored by the Hairdressers’ Association of B.C. Mcdels Noaneh
Stephanian, left, and Shannon Brooker show off the winning looks.

Local stylists come out on top
in hairdressing competitions

“WHO SAYS Toronto is the
fashion capital of Canada?”
Since his salon took home two
prestigious awards from the
Canadian National Hairstyling
Awards in Toronto last month,
Jon Paul Holt of Avant Garde
wants to know.

By Layne Christensen
Fashion Reporter

The North Vancouver stylist is
just one of several North Shore resi-
dents who have come out on top in
recent hairdressing competitions.

Holt, whose salon is located in
Vancouver’s trendy Yaletown dis-
trict, was named British Columbia
Hairstylist of the Year, while fellow
Avant Garde stylist Francois Prieur
came home with the top prize,
Canadian Hairstylist of the Year.

The stylists were judged by a
panel of experts from the media,
hairdressing, fashion, and music
industries.

Consideration was given to a
portfolio of photographic work that
demonstrated the stylists’ expertise
in a variety of looks.

In the recently held Hair Fantasy
Competition, sponsored by JOICO

Photo submitted
AVANT GARDE... top prize at
the Canadian National
Hairstyling Awards.

of Canada, Shaun Mitha of North
Vancouver's Hatz Hair Design
came up a winner with his nature-
inspired creation.

Mitha found it hard to describe
his second-place look, titled
“Twilight.” which took him six
months to create. “{t's kind of free
flow — like a water wave, or like

the fountain at Lost Lagoon.”

His distinctive entry features
eight feet of monofibres braided
and wrapped around chicken wire
and wound into the model’s own
hair.

The composition swirls around
the model’s body and face, creating
a “vinetree effect,” and rises above
the head where the ends are capped
with red “flower buds” that light up
with the help of a battery-driven
power pack hidden at the back of
the head, in the model's own hair.

Mitha also placed first in the
“Ladies’ Visual Cut” category at
the Vancouver Regional “Preparing
for the Year 2000” show, sponsored

by the Hairdressers’ Association of . 5

B.C., and held at the Atrium Inn in
Vancouver on Nov. 28..Yuri Lieu,
also of Hatz, placed second in the
same competition.

Kathleen Koropecki and Karl
Robathan, both of Hair Mode in
North Vancouver, placed first and
third in the show's “Consumer
Daytime” category.

Koropecki and Robathan, along
with the second-place winner from
a Burnaby sulon, are to compete as
a team in the B.C. provincial cham-
pionships to be held at the Hotel
Vancouver next March.

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