The hairdresser of the stars Jacques Dessange died at the age of 94, announced his lawyer. The death of the founder of the famous international hairdressing group was confirmed to AFP by a spokesperson for the Dessange International group.
Jacques Dessange learned the profession of hairdresser with his father, in the family salon in Souesmes in Sologne. With his study certificate, he went to Paris in 1945 as a hairdresser: he was fired twelve times in a year. At the famous post-war hairstylist Louis Gervais, he invented with the “hairdo-hair-dress”.
His professional activity started in 1949. From that year, he became the appointed hairdresser of the models of the house of Dior. Thereafter, it will be for Chanel, Carven, and the movie stars of the time. In 1954, he opened his first salon at 37, avenue Franklin-Roosevelt, a few steps from the Champs-Élysées roundabout. His second salon opened in Saint Tropez the following year.
In those years, he styled Jean Seberg, but also Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Sheila, Syvie Vartan. The world of cinema opened its doors to him from the early 1960s.
In 1984 he became “Official Partner” of the Cannes Festival. Followed by the Deauville International American Film Festival, as well as the Marrakech International Film Festival in the 2000s. He even appeared in his own role for the film How not to marry a billionaire? in 19603.
At the beginning of the 1980s, Catherine Ahnelle displayed herself throughout France for an advertising campaign which would definitively impose the “hairdo – disheveled” campaign orchestrated by her eldest son Cyril Dessange who became the CEO of the advertising agency Créa Media (price for the best Marie France advertising) behind all of the JACQUES DESSANGE group’s advertising campaigns until 1992. he returned in 1998 to create the group’s product division; the Solorian Laboratory (cosmetics, shampoos, makeup, located in Guidel (Brittany).
Jacques Dessange was married to Corinne Francoise André de Valeton de Boissière press secretary to Brigitte Bardot. They had two sons: the first Cyril born in 1961 and the second Benjamin born in 1967. (Wikipedia)
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