Boundless Inspiration! Alternative Hair Show 2016: Odyssey

Twenty artistic hair teams from across the world took part in the 34th Alternative Hair Show that took place on Sunday evening at London’s Royal Albert Hall, raising a fantastic £190,319.50 (+ US$ 230,000) for Fighting Leukaemia. Under the banner of the highly inspirational theme, Odyssey.

The teams combined amazing hair styling, makeup and fashion with impressive choreography, each show enthralled, entertained and impressed the 5,000 audience. Alternative Hair has continued to showcase artistic hairdressers from across the globe, enticing them to take their creativity to ever more daring heights without limitations, exposing their work to an enthralled audience. This creative journey has brought hairdressing teams together for the mutual benefit of our charity, Fighting Leukaemia, but has also brought them together as a global artistic force.

The 2016 Teams were presented to the audience by Alternative Hair Founder, Tony Rizzo and Worldwide President, Anthony Mascolo. Each team received a handmade award created by Wil & El Esser:

SASSOON – UK
ALTAMODA – IRELAND
ANTEO GEMINIANI – ITALY
FELICITAS – SPAIN
ROBERT MASCIAVE – UK
LASZLO HAJAS – HUNGARY
MIKEL LUZEA – SPAIN
ANNE VECK – UK
CARLO BAY – ITALY
SANRIZZ – UK
KLAUS PETER OCHS – GERMANY
BUNDY BUNDY – AUSTRIA
KOHSUKE VISUAL NETWORK – JAPAN
GOGEN – ITALY
ROBERT CROMEANS – USA
FEHRINGER – AUSTRIA
MAHOGANY – UK
SACO – UK
DMITRY VINOKUROV – RUSSIA
TIGI CREATIVE TEAM – UK

The International Visionary Award has become an important part of the evening and each year the number of global applicants has increased. This year 35 finalists presented in 3 categories: Cut & Colour, Mens and Avante-Garde each showed 1 model. The intricacy and quality of the work shown was highly impressive and it was an almost impossible task for the panel of iconic judges to select. Tony Rizzo and Anthony Mascolo presented the awards to:

CUT & COLOUR
1st – Pino Troncone
Runner Up – Marese Sweeney

MEN’S
1st – Lin Yi Siou
Runner-up – Joel McCauley

AVANT-GARDE
1st – Amanda Whittome
Runner-Up – Zhilinskiy Sergey

The Alternative Hair Show also hosts the International AIPP Awards. The highly prestigious AIPP Awards this year received a new impressive record: 679 collections from 32 countries General Secretary of the AIPP and General Manager of ESTETICA Magazine USA, Spain & Latin America, Sergi Bancells, Tony Rizzo and icon colourist Annie Humphreys presented the International Legend Award to Klaus Peter Ochs.

AIPP CATEGORY AWARD WINNERS:

Commercial Award won by Raffel Pages
Avant-Garde Award won by Angelo Seminara
Photo Award won by Anne Veck
Men’s Award won by Uros Mikic
Video Award won by Hair & More

Alternative Hair is about promoting artistic hair talent but its heart is about raising money for Fighting Leukaemia. A short film to illustrate how the money raised is invested is shown to the audience before the Charity Appeal, which was presented by show host, Linda Evans and Leukaemia survivor, 7 year old, Blue Tobin. As well as putting money into the buckets shaken throughout the theatre by a team from Bloodwise, the audience was invited to text AHSW16 £5 to 70070

Photos: Alex Barron-Hough