Northern Ireland / Scotland / Southern

Steve Rowbottom is one of the hairdressing industry's hottest talents. In addition to West Row Hairdressing - his seven Yorkshire salons run in conjunction with business partner Marc Westerman - Steve masterminded the hair looks for GHD as the brand flourished under his artistic leadership, becoming a regular session stylist backstage at London Fashion Week Shows for the likes of Frost French and Matthew Williamson. Steve left GHD last year to take up a position as European Creative Director for Hempz haircare, and to become a key L'Oreal Artist in their prestigious Portfolio of Hairdressers.

As part of this role, Steve has been teaching for L'Oreal, as well as producing the imagery for their latest advertorial campaigns in Vogue and Elle. A brilliant session stylist, he heads up West Row's own Art Team producing shows both nationally and locally, including the likes of Leeds' Graduate Fashion Show. Under his tutelage, a number of star talents have appeared from the West Row stable, most notably Nicola Hulatt who has reached the finals of the hugely competetive Wella Trend Vision and L'Oreal Colour Trophy competitions, and seen her work everywhere from the cover of magazines to the catwalks of Battersea's Graduate Fashion Week, where she worked in her capacity as L'Oreal I.D. Artist, and Anne-Marie Atkinson,
now a hair extensions specialist and member of Racoon's 'Rat Pack' of artistic session stylists. Steve will be appearing on series 3 of The Clothes Show in 2007 - please see below for an overview of his work.

Profile

Steve has been nominated 3 times in the British Hairdressing Awards, and enjoyed various finalist spots for the British Hairdressing Business
Awards and HAIR Magazine Consumer Awards.

Recent West Row Awards Include

• 2007 - Finalist (winner tba) - Best Local Salon - HAIR Magazine Awards
• 2007 - Finalist (winner tba) - Salon of the Year- BHBA
• 2007 - Winner of Northern Region Category (Nicola Hulett) - L'Oreal Colour Trophy (UK Finalist)
• 2006 - Winner of Hair Extensions Length Award (Anne-Marie Atkinson) in the HJ Creative Competition
• 2006 - Winner of Northern Region Category (Nicola Hulett) - Wella Trend Vision Award (UK Finalist)
• 2004 - Winner - Director Of the Year (BHBA) - Marc Westerman
• 2002 - Winners in British Hairdressing Business Awards: West Row Harrogate wins Salon of the Year and Danielle Robinson (Leeds) wins Junior of the Year.

Recent Shows and Seminars Work Include

• 2003 - 2006 Creative Ambassador for GHD
• Responsible for all editorial/advertising campaigns for the UK, US & Africa.
• Numerous photoshoots including L'Oreal imagery for Vogue
• London Fashion week shows for 3 years (Matthew Williamson, Frost French)
• Pink Campaign with Jodie Kidd
• 3 years of Salon International stage work, plus Movement Tour & Expert Tour (2 month stage tours around UK)
• European shows in Spain and Hungry
• Forming of the GHD Directive (a group of creative individuals brought together by Steve by way of auditions to include hair stylists, make up artists, clothes stylists etc.)
• Overall responsibility to take GHD from the consumer arena into the hair industry
• Numerous shows for Fashion Focus and Salon International for
  the Fellowship for British Hairdressing.
• Held various courses in conjunction with Wella including Classic Cutting, Presentation Courses, Advanced Techniques amongst
  others.
• Full Seminar/Platform work at Salon International
• Heroes Courses (part of the Heroes Team)
• Trend Vision
• Platform presentations at Salon International 2006, fronting Hempz' whole presence.