Richard
Director & Co-founder
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Award-winning Royal and celebrity hairdresser Richard Ward is one of the industry’s leading lights, and one of the media’s most wanted hairdressers. Pioneer of the super salon concept, his eponymous, uber-cool award-winning Sloane Square salon plays host to a team of over 90 experts, looking after the hair and beauty needs of over 1,200 clients per week including a glittering celebrity clientele.
Richard briefly trained at Daniel Galvin before joining Neville Daniel in 1985 and meeting and working with many of the people that remain his colleagues today, such as Julie, Gavin, Fiona and Robert. After completing his apprenticeship, Richard left to work at Hari’s salon in SW7 before returning to Neville Daniel in the early 90′s to resume his career at a more senior level.
Following a change of ownership, Richard met his wife Hellen when she was brought in to assess the ailing business. Months later, Richard and Hellen conducted a management buy-out and started the lengthy process of re-building the salon. In 1997, after the expiry of their lease, they moved to their Sloane Street premises, re-branding as Richard Ward. A further move to their current location in 2005 led to them developing one of the first super size salons in the capital and cultivating the business to its current position as one of the largest independently owned salons in the UK.
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Richard is globally renowned for his on-going and long-standing role as hairdresser to HRH The Princess of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh. With his resulting trademark style, his ethos is to ensure women leave the salon both looking and feeling beautiful. His vast and loyal clientele and globally renowned career highlights are testament to his core salon role as one of the most exceptional hairdressers of his generation.
Richard’s philosophy is simple; he wants women to love their look and this principal echoes through both his salon and his luxury ranges of hair care and styling products, which have become an integral part of his unsurpassed success. As a result, he enjoys a global reputation as one of the country’s most influential hairdressers.
Renowned for his world famous trademark Chelsea Blow Dry, Richard’s philosophy is about making sure their hair makes people look and feel fantastic. His ethos is that modern hair should be natural, free-flowing, touchable and wearable, and he believes that the right products should complement the cut to deliver healthy, shiny glamorous hair, making the couture hair look accessible to everyone and guaranteeing a good hair day, every day.
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Richard has an unrivalled media presence and has worked exclusively on several cult shows such delivering his trademark makeovers as well as appearing extensively on radio, TV and media news as a commentator on industry trends and innovations, keeping him firmly at the forefront of British hairdressing.
With his royal connections and his media and television persona, as well as looking after a devoted and loyal celebrity clientele in his exclusive Chelsea salon, Richard’s huge consumer awareness both in the UK and internationally make him one of the country’s ultimate high profile hairdressers; he is recognised all over the world as one of the leading British style and hair trends authorities.
Endorsing his position as one of the industry’s most influential commentators in both trade and consumer press, Richard regularly appears on ITV’s This Morning, showcasing his expert hair makeovers and trend-led features.
His soundbites and comments on all things hair appear regularly in a host of newspapers and glossy magazines, regularly featuring in The Daily Mail, making him the quintessential voice on innovations and trends in the hairdressing industry.
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Further cementing his international reputation, Richard remains the global face of the brand he co-created, Tangle Angel. Following its launch in 2011, his hugely successful range of wet products, Richard Ward Salon Professional, is available online or in-salon.
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