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How a Celebrity Hairstylist Spends His Sundays
Jerome Lordet made his way to New York from his native Paris as a teenager in 1983 after training with Frédéric Fekkai and other French hair luminaries. He became a fixture at the swanky Pierre Michel Salon on the Upper East Side for more than a …
Jerome Lordet made his way to New York from his native Paris as a teenager in 1983 after training with Frédéric Fekkai and other French hair luminaries. He became a fixture at the swanky Pierre Michel Salon on the Upper East Side for more than a quarter century.
This year, he opened a namesake salon in the same neighborhood, where he continues to cater to high-profile clients like Martin Short and the Broadway actress Orfeh. The salon is closed on Sundays, but Mr. Lordet, 58, sometimes makes exceptions for longtime clients. He will also occasionally do house calls; Christie Brinkley has summoned him to her place in the Hamptons.
Mr. Lordet lives in the East Village with his girlfriend, Ariel Lopez, a colorist at Rita Hazan Salon. Every other weekend, his 16-year-old daughter, Zoe, is with them. Rounding out the household is Ziggy, a hairless Sphynx cat.
“I know they look weird,” Mr. Lordet said, referring to his cat, “but I’m tired of having hair everywhere.”
SPECIAL TREAT I like to get up not too late, but also not too early, maybe around 8:30. If my daughter is home she really doesn’t want to get up, so I’ll go with my girlfriend to a little French bakery, Le Fournil, and get croissants and pain au chocolat. Little things like that. It’s special for me — usually everything is freshly baked and coming out of the oven still warm, a nice thing. We bring all that stuff home and make coffee and orange juice and sit at the table.
Mr. Lordet with his girlfriend, Ariel Lopez, center, and his daughter, Zoe, at their home in the East Village.Credit…Lanna Apisukh for The New York Times
