Vivienne Mackinder
Who is Vivienne Mackinder? The Hairdressers’ hairdresser.
Vivienne Mackinder is the current Fashion Director for Intercoiffure America-Canada, and one of the most highly respected international leaders in the hairdressing profession today. In her work as Artistic Director for industry grand masters Vidal Sassoon and Trevor Sorbie, Vivienne developed an expertise for precision cutting and an eye for original hair design, from the classic and the commercial to the avant-garde.
Based in New York, she grew up in London and subsequently spread her wings to New York. She has been honored with numerous awards, including the much coveted North American Hairstyling Awards (five times plus 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award), as well as the prestigious IBS Editors’ Choice Awards (three times).
As a session stylist, Vivienne has collaborated and designed hair collections for runway fashion collections in New York, Paris and London. She is also an in-demand featured guest artist and educator for premier international events and her work is consistently published in press world-wide. She is the founder of the ‘Roots and Wings’ educational program in New York as well as ‘HairDesignerTV.com’.
When you enter the brilliant world of Vivienne Mackinder called ‘HairDesignerTV.com’, you open up amazing new opportunities, approaches, and resources to cutting hair with a razor a la Mackinder. Vivienne is passionate about everything she believes in – and her penchant for razor cutting is no exception.
“The scissor is the architect of design…and the razor the sculptor’s tool. I am able to create texture and shape simultaneously with great control and efficiency.”
Vivienne and her young, dynamic Art Team are always sharing and showing their insider secrets to phenomenal hair cutting with razors, whether they’re touring the country doing classes or teach online via ‘HairDesignerTV.com’. Jatai highly recommends that you ‘catch a class’, or ‘watch VivTV’ to catch up on techniques you could be doing tomorrow on your clients! For more complete details of Mackinder razor cutting educational videos and events, drop by HairDesignerTV.com
Awards and Accolades
• Fashion Director for Inter Coiffure North America, 2010
• 5 time winner of the North American Hair Styling Awards
• NAHA honoree "Life Time Achievement Award", 2009
• Producer and Director of Documentary film series, “I'm Not just a Hairdresser”
• Founder of HairDesignerTV.com - presenter on Web TV show
• Editor in Chief, MOD magazine
• Editorial stylist, Platform artist, Keynote speaker
Video: Vivianne discusses using a Hair Razor (around 3:20):
