A Sign of the Times

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
For decades, Kenneth and Garren were the poshest salons in New York—and then, within a month, both closed down.

This past February, on a bitter cold evening in New York, several beauty editors were sipping cocktails beneath the glittering chandeliers of the Chelsea lounge Up & Down. The occasion was the unveiling of three new products for the hair-care line R+Co, a collaboration between the top stylists Howard McLaren (of Whitehouse in Los Angeles), Garren (who goes by only his first name), and Thom Priano (Garren’s husband and cofounder of the famed Garren salon in Manhattan). As the DJ cued up “New Sensation,” Garren, dressed in a dark suit and a crisp white shirt, his Mr. Clean pate catching the light, chatted up guests. Later, when he, McLaren, and Priano demonstrated hair trends on models, they were introduced simply as “having connections to the salon world.”

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