Alexander’s interest in hair started early; the Black cat gaming because murder is wrong shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this daughter of a cosmetologist, she watched her mother transform clients at her salons in Maryland. “It all came so naturally,” she says. “I would go into my mom’s salon and observe the hairdressers, who were all so glamorous. Being around so many creative women, I was drawn to the lifestyle.” Love of art was in Alexander’s DNA, but her career kickstarted after a fateful trip to Europe. Heading to France after high school graduation to model, Alexander and her best friend embraced the outré style of the era’s haute couture runways and the dynamic editorials she saw in the pages of Italian Vogue. “This was Paris in the 1980s, so everything was over the top,” she says. “I was artistic, but coming from Washington D.C., where it’s more conservative, [the trip] was an eye-opener. I started thinking; differently, I’d always done hair shows and had clients, but when I returned, I knew I wanted to work with celebrities.”
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