Thinking out-of-the-box with Ricky Walters and Stuart Whitelaw
Always pushing creative boundaries, never giving up when the going gets tough and the value of a strong and solid team… Watch this inspiring session with Ricky Walters and Stuart Whitelaw, as streamed live at Salon Smart LIVE 2021 and hand-picked exclusively for the HUB!
They’ve spent the best part of a year shopping, viewing, learning, meeting, working out and quizzing online, so getting clients out of their safe house bubbles and back to the high street could be a tough ask. But you can do it. And the way to do it is to tempt them with luxury and transformative experiences that they simply can’t get at home. It’s clear salons nowadays are offering so much more than ‘Just Hair’ – they are fast becoming spaces where you can come and work, play, chill with a cocktail or two – and you don’t even have to book a blow-dry. Ricky Walters, co-founder and creative director of Salon64 in London and Stuart Whitelaw, owner of Mesart in Glasgow, are two of those revolutionaries, reshaping the salon experience into something altogether more modern. So much so, they both went on to win two of those coveted Most Wanted & The It List awards – for The Entrepreneur and Best New Salon respectively. And now they’re here on screen, to share their out-of-the-box thinking with you…