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Dancer Vivienne Mackinder champions and educates an industry much more than she would ever have imagined
by Kim Hughes
Mackinder’s current obsession, meanwhile, is fostering peer education, chiefly through her new interactive instructional website, www.hairdesignertv.com.
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F VIVIENNE MACKINDER’S BUSINESS CARD listed all her credentials, it would be a Flintstones-sized tablet. Her biography in point form covers seven full pages, while her name sparks industry-wide recognition on both sides of the Atlantic and in most English-speaking pockets of the Pacific. And can her resumé name-drop? Oh, honey… how about Sassoon and Sorbie (she served as artistic director to both), Boy George and Katie Couric (onetime clients), and Betsey Johnson and Jean Paul Gaultier (fashion show patrons). That’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Then there’s the session work, editorial and TV gigs, awards, films, keynote speeches. Yup, the London-reared, New Yorkbased Mackinder has done it all. Yet in reviewing that gargantuan resumé, some illuminating key words emerge: artist, mentor, industry cheerleader, breakneck globe-trotting professional. Oh yes, and really amazing, mega-award-winning hairdresser devoted to ongoing professional development. So how does one—ahem—tease the minutiae out of Mackinder’s momentous curriculum vitae? Answer: one doesn’t. That’s what websites are for (www.mackinder.com). What one can do is spotlight her essence, then focus on current passions. With Mackinder, both tasks are surprisingly simple. What propels her is devotion to her craft: the well-executed cut and the happy client, her personal artistic development and her continued experiences as competitive stylist and consultant.
