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Sarah Jessica Parkerpaid tributeto legendary celebrity hairstylistOribe Canales’ after his passingdevastated the fashion and beauty world.
“Your kindness, joy for life and extraordinary talent will be missed. I will treasure forever my memories of working and playing with you and feel privileged that they are many. You leave a lasting legacy. RIP. X, SJ,” Parker said.
Oribe’s hair career began in Manhattan, when he moved to the city after high school to pursue acting.
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In 1991, Oribe opened his Fifth Avenue salon at Elizabeth Arden in New York City. And in 1992, he designed hairpieces for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute galleries, which featured wigs styled on mannequins that all looked like supermodel Christy Turlington.
He crafted the looks on the biggest supermodels of the late ’80s and ’90s, including Turlington, Evangelista andNaomi Campbell, who opened up toPEOPLE about the loss of her “chosen family member.”
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“It’s devastating for everyone that loves him,” Campbell, 48, told us.
Her tight-knit relationship with Oribe has spanned more than three decades, after they instantly hit it off for the first time on set of an AmericanVogueshoot in 1986. “I walked into another world with [photographer] Steven [Meisel], Oribe, [makeup artist] François [Nars] and [then-Voguefashion director and stylist] Carlyne [Cerf de Dudzeele]. I came off the concord at 16, went straight to the studio and it was like I walked into another world,” she said.
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source: people.com
