Model: Kim Norda
Stylist: Joelle Ray

January 2011 (Paris, France) – Joelle Ray, owner of Samuel Cole Salon /Salon Moxie , and Ashley Collins, Assistant Director of Education and Advanced Senior Designer, joined Oribe Canales’ exclusive design team for the Giorgio Armani  Prive couture show in Paris.  Celebrities attending the show included Sophia Loren, Jody Foster, Kate Moss, and Anna Wintour.  Collins said “It was absolutely inspiring and such an honor to be invited by the salon owners to be a part of something so amazing.  This event hosted some of the best hairstylist in the industry I have fallen in love with styling for the runway. The backstage energy so exhilarating and the opportunity to style hair at this elite level was a highlight of my career.”

Ashley Collins’ Bio

Runway: Giorgio Armani, Rebecca Minkoff, Michael Bastian, Staerk, Wayne, Bibhu Mohapatra, Karen Walker, Bill Blass, Davidelfin, Naeem Khan, New York. Bumble and bumble University, NYC: Design Workshop, Network Educator I, II, and III, Styling I and II, Director of Bb Network Education Team, Editorial Styling with Bumble and bumble runway stylist, Alejandro Jimenez. Redken 5^th Avenue: Redken Haircolor Certification, Master Class with Redken Platform Artist Dhaniel Dhoud, Redken Color Correction Master Class, Redken Creative Dimensional Color and Highlighting,   Oribe: In salon Master Class with Oribe Canales, Oribe Editorial Styling with Steven Schmidt , Oribe Cutting Event with Tom Gallagher. Graduate Immersion Core Curriculum, Graduate Advanced Curriculum, Facilitator for Immersion and Advanced education curriculums, Founders Advisory Board. Carpe Diem Award, USA Beauty Open 2006 in Chicago: 1^st Place in Technical Consumer Day, 1^st Place Technical Overall, 4^th Place Technical Hair by Night, Winner of Sally Cup, Certification in Great Lengths Hair Extensions, Brazilian Blowout, Member of 2006 USA Team Technical, Hairworld Competition 2006, Moscow, Russia