Creative HEAD February 2019

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THE NEWS AND KNOW-HOW FROM YOUR INDUSTRY
SCHOOLS FAIL TO
GIVE PUPILS ALL
THE OPTIONS
Daniel w. Fletcher
Charles Jeffrey
Images courtesy of Go24/7 and Revlon Professional
FEWER THAN TWO IN FIVE secondary
schools are allowing other education and
training providers access to their pupils
to inform them about technical and
vocational qualifications and prospects,
such as hairdressing.
That’s the damning finding from a briefing
by progressive think tank Institute for Public
Policy Research (IPPR), looking at the Baker
Clause a year after its introduction.
The legislation, which came into force in
January 2018, requires secondary schools to
allow access to other education and training
providers in an attempt to improve technical
education and overcome the financial
incentives that motivate schools to retain
pupils. IPPR stated that making a success of
the Baker Clause would be vital if vocational
options such as hairdressing were ever to be
seen as equally important career choices.
According to the study, just 37.6 per cent of
schools were abiding by the legislation. The
IPPR also revealed 70.1 per cent of technical
education providers thought that the Baker
Clause has failed to deliver on its aims,
although 31.3 per cent of providers felt the
situation had improved in the past year.
“A number of our salons have contacted
local schools in recent years to see if KH
Hair could get involved in their careers
evenings, only to be told ‘no’,” says Darren
Messias, managing director of 21-strong East
Midlands salon chain, KH Hair. “Some have
been receptive but, in our experience, a lot
depends on the school and how the head
teacher chooses to run it.
“We have also heard from our new
apprentices and their parents that, in a lot of
cases, if their child is interested in becoming a
hairdresser they have been told to send them
to a college – the apprenticeship route within a
salon is never mentioned.”
Pronounce
Christopher Raeburn
London Fashion
Week Men’s A/W19
THE LATEST London Fashion Week Men’s shows proved men’s fashion is fast
becoming a creative force to be reckoned with. Super-stylist John Vial created
geometric folds at Charles Jeffrey for Revlon Professional and at Iceberg –
where he used American Crew Fiber Grooming Foam – while Anna Cofone
mixed tight buzzcuts with boisterous afros for self-expressive styling at Bianca
Saunders. We saw plenty of sleek, James Bond-esque hair too, at Daniel
w. Fletcher (again by Anna Cofone styling for Fudge Professional) and at
London College of Fashion, where Rush Hair’s Andy Heasman and Tina Farey
styled casually pushed-back finishes for L’Oreal Professionnel. The pair reached
for TECNI.ART Beach Waves and Depolish to create a simple, natural look.
Colour played its part at C2H4, where Michael Harding used Pulp Riot and
R+Co for go racer neons, while Brendan O’Sullivan for Go24/7 at Christopher
Raeburn created slashes of sprayed-on colour and tight side braids on the
longer-haired models, using old parachute ribbons to tie in with the recycled
theme of the collection.
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