AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A fixture of London’s high-fashion salon scene, his clients also included celebrities like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Raquel Welch and Gwyneth Paltrow in a career that lasted more than 50 years.John Frieda in 2012.

A hairdresser with an outsize public persona, he was celebrated for creating signature looks for a list of A-list celebrity clients.Credit...Leon Neal/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesNov. 4, 2026, 2:12 p.m.

ETJohn Frieda, the British hairstylist who created era-defining looks for royals and Hollywood stars before building a retail hair care empire, died on Tuesday. He was 75.The John Frieda Salon in London announced the death in a statement on Instagram.

No further details were provided.Mr. Frieda was a fixture of London’s high-fashion salon scene in the 1960s and ’70s.

In a career of more than five decades, his clients included Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Princess Diana, Raquel Welch, Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman. He opened his first salon in London in 1976 and later expanded to New York and Los Angeles, as well as seasonal and resort salons in destinations that included Ibiza, Spain, and Barbados.He was celebrated for creating signature looks, most notably the “Purdey” — the sleek, rounded bowl cut with bangs named for Joanna Lumley’s character in the television series “The New Avengers.” The style set off a craze in Britain after the show premiered in 1976; when Mr.

Frieda opened his salon on New Cavendish Street that year, it was booked solid for the next six months.Alan Howard Frieda was born in London on July 5, 1951. Hairdressing was in his lineage: his father, Isidore Frieda, owned a salon in West London, and his grandfather had been a barber on Fleet Street.

When Alan left school at 16, his father was furious, having hoped his son would become a doctor. Rather than hiring him, his father told him to seek an apprenticeship with Leonard Lewis, the hairstylist known professionally as Leonard of Mayfair, whose salon was then the epicenter of London hair fashion.Mr.

Frieda later credited the salon with providing an unrivaled education, putting him in the company of leading fashion photographers, makeup artists and stylists. It was also where he changed his first name.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

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