Background
Anthony Mascolo was born in London in 1957, the son of Italian immigrants, Francesco and Maria Mascolo. His first job was in the family’s Toni&Guy salon in South London, where his father and brother Bruno, also worked.
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Anthony Mascolo
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Education
Anthony believes training is important to team development, and that sharing new ideas with others drives his own work forwards. This strong philosophy of sharing ideas has been important in the development of TIGI educational and training programmes for the International Creative Team.
Career
He has led a Creative Team for over 30 years and demonstrated his ideas and techniques to hairdressers around the globe. The youngest of five brothers, four of which were to become hairdressers, Anthony cannot remember ever thinking of doing anything else except joining the family hairdressing business. By the time he left school he was a competent and fully qualified hairdresser.
By the time the Mascolo brothers opened their first central London salon in 1974, Anthony was already a highly creative hairdresser working on photographic shoots with top photographers.
During the 1970s several companies were exploring the new concept of hair shows and the Mascolo brothers were invited to present their work. Their talent for stage presentation work was soon spotted and by the time Anthony had turned twenty, he was regularly travelling with his team, to Europe, Japan, United States of America, Canada and Australia.
By the early 1980s Anthony had begun experimenting with photography. During his 35-year career Anthony has created many memorable photographic collections, as well as creating step-by-step educational books linking his photo collections with supportive Digital Video Disc training programmes.
At the same time he founded the TIGI International Creative Team and was joined by Nick Irwin and Akos Bodi, as European Creative Director and European Education Director respectively.
Within three years the established international team opened the TIGI Creative Academy, also in London. In April 2009 TIGI’s global operation was acquired by Unilever. Anthony Mascolo has been retained as a creative consultant to work closely with Unilever on the global company and brand expansion, and to advise on the professional hairdressing marketplace.
Anthony takes influence from many areas – film, art, fashion, music and the street.
He claims that one of his greatest inspirations comes from the raw ideas of young people. Crucially though, it is those closest to him – his family and his team, who draw out his ever-expanding ideas and push his work forward.
Anthony has been married to Pat Mascolo for 24 years and they have 3 children: Georgina, 25, Alexandra, 19 and Joshua 15. Anthony is a huge supporter of Chelsea football team
He loves sports, his favourite being skiing.
