7 things you need to know about celebrity hairstylist Oribe

Date June 12, 2015

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Unless you’ve been living off the grid, you know that Caitlyn Jenner more than broke the Internet. The Kim Kardashian-approved beauty trio behind her Vanity Fair cover included manicurist Deborah Lippmann and makeup artist Mark Carrasquillo. And the man behind her Cindy Crawford-inspired coiff? That was Oribe.

The news got us thinking about the Cuban-born hairstylist’s insane career trajectory. To beauty editors, he’s a household name—a hair god if you will. Maybe you already burn through bottles of his Dry Texturizing Spray, but it wouldn’t surprise us if he wasn’t on most people’s radar. Which is why we felt it our civic duty to pull together a little primer on the man behind some major pop culture moments—from Rihanna’s first Vogue Cover to doing the hair for Marc Jacobs’ infamous grunge collection.

See the seven things you need to know about Oribe below.

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1. If you’re name dropping, make sure you pronounce his solo moniker correctly. It’s Or-bay.

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2. He was one of the architects behind Jennifer Lopez’s metamorphosis from Fly Girl (back in her In Living Color days) to the bronzed beauty we see today.

“She was starting her music career and wanted to define her look,” he told Intothegloss.com. They still work together now. In fact, Oribe created her retro waves for the Tony awards.

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3. His celeb clientele includes everyone from Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus to Scarlett Johansson and Sophia Loren. He’s also tight with Cher, and did her hair for her Vanity Fair cover in 2010.

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4. He was there with Christy, Naomi and Linda through the 80s and 90s creating iconic shoots for major glossies like Vogue Italia with photographer Steven Meisel and makeup artist Francois Nars. He’s still working with top models like Kate Moss, who he turned into Marilyn Monroe for this W Magazine shoot.

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5. He turned RiRi into a mermaid for her first Vogue cover.

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6. John F. Kennedy Jr. tapped him to turn Cindy Crawford into George Washington on the inaugural cover of George Magazine. He used a white powdered wig, on loan from the Metropolitan Opera.

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7. He’s done runway and ad campaign hair for Chanel, Versace and Dolce and Gabbana. And though glamorous high volume hair is his thing, he begrudgingly created the flat, Nirvana-era hair worn by models in the Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis grunge show in 1993.