It’s not very often that someone gets to live out one of their lifelong dreams. Studio Booth was lucky to be able to help one of our own achieve their dreams. Because of high growth with Phyto Hair Care sales, Studio Booth was able to choose one of our stylists to fly to New York Fashion Week and work alongside renowned Phyto stylist Orlando Pita at the Derek Lam runway show. Because of her top sales at the salon and true dedication to the Phyto line, owner Ron Booth chose stylist Lyndsay Clark to represent Studio Booth at New York Fashion Week. Lyndsay took time out of her already busy day to sit down and give us all of the insider details of the backstage madness at NYFW.

After arriving at the Pace Gallery in Chelsea, she was immediately thrown into the hectic world of backstage at fashion week. All 15 stylists were shown the look for the show by Orlando Pita and then went to grab their models. Lyndsay recalls the moment she grabbed her first model and was stolen from her while walking her back to her station. “It was surprisingly competitive.” she says, “My first model was stolen by another stylist as I was walking her back to my work station.” Lyndsay didn’t let that phase her one bit. She went back to the door and grabbed the very next model that walked in and got to work.

On her second model, there was only 20 minutes until show time. Lyndsay described a hectic scene of a model having her hair, nails and makeup done all at once. “I was working on her hair, while another was working on her makeup and someone else was on the floor prepping the models nails.” Not only were there a ton of artists there to work on all 36 models, but there were also countless amounts of fashion bloggers and media crowding the room as well. There was little to no space, but things seemed to move along seamlessly. She had been following Orlando Pita’s career for 19 years and was so excited and honored to be able to work alongside of him and to be a part of something so big. Lyndsay says she would’ve never had dreamed that she would get an opportunity like that in a million years.

Studio Booth continues to strive for opportunities like this that allows our staff to grown in the hair industry. Collaborating with Phyto is something Studio Booth prides itself on, and will continue to do in the future.