Photo: Oribe Canales/Instagram
Beauty industry titanOribe Canaleshas passed away at 62, PEOPLE confirms.
The Cuban-born hairdresser became known as one of the most influential pros in the fashion and beauty spheres, responsible for styling runway hair that rivaled the clothes.
He crafted the looks on the biggest supermodels of the late ’80s and ’90s, including Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista.
Oribe’s hair career began in Manhattan, when he moved to the city after high school to pursue acting.
“I started working at a hairdressing place that a friend owned in New York,” Canales toldPEOPLEin 1991. “I saw that hairdressers made a lot of money, and it didn’t seem that hard.”
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 Turlington.
The celeb-loved pro with supermodel Kate Moss.Oribe Canales/Instagram
“Here we are in the nineties, holding each other close. He always had his arms around someone or dancing on set. No one made me feel more loved, and no one made me laugh so much. I love you. I am so sad you are gone our beautiful Oribe. The world of fashion and beauty has lost a great soul, and we will mourn that you have left us all behind while you have gone straight to heaven. RIP ORIBE,” Greenwell added.
The late Gianni Versace regularly flew Oribe to Rome and Milan for his fashion shows.
“He’s very simpatico with them,” Versacetold PEOPLEat the time of Oribe’s work with the models.
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Over the span of his more than 30-year career, Canales worked on almost every major runway show (including Versace, Chanel and Calvin Klein) collaborated with high-profile photographers and created looks seen in the pages every fashion magazine fromVoguetoGlamour.
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By the late ’90s, Canales shifted his focus to working with celebrities, garnering a long list of A-list clients, most notably includingJennifer Lopez, Cher, Kate Moss, Barbara Streisand,Rihanna,Lady Gaga, Meghan Markle and countless others.
In 2008, Canales used his expertise to formulate and launch his namesake luxury product line,Oribe Hair Care, with brand co-founders Daniel Kaner and Tevya Finger, which since gained cult-status in the beauty market.
source: people.com
