Cut out for the beauty business - Boston Globe(Hair News)

After losing a bid to buy the beauty business started by his father, the legendary hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, Elan Sassoon is now building his own empire in Boston. The Academy for Hair and Skin by Elan Sassoon, a $22 million school near the Boston University campus, is expected to open next spring in a 90,000-square-foot facility with dormitories, the first of its kind in the country. The beauty school will debut just months after Sassoon and Lord's & Lady's Hair Salon founder Michael Barsamian open a 3,000-square-foot high-end salon, Mizu, next to L'Espalier restaurant at the new luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel and condominium complex on Boylston Street. Three decades later, the younger Sassoon, at 38, is looking to capitalize on the latest boom in beauty, which is fueled in part by a growing number of hotels and health clubs offering more hair and skin services, and an increase in skin care treatments. Sassoon is negotiating with Patrick McGinley, who has worked as creative director at Boston's Vidal Sassoon salon on Newbury Street, to run the academy. For Sassoon, the Boston beauty empire is a response to his failure several years ago to purchase the Vidal Sassoon brand, getting outbid by Regis Corp. read more

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