Hair today, gone tomorrow.
Frederic Fekkai is suing six ex-employees who quit his world-famous salons last year only to set up shop less than two miles away from his Fifth Avenue flagship.
Reyad Fritas, a longtime colorist and artistic director of Fekkai on Fifth, in January opened what Vogue called the “impossibly chic” Suite Reyad on the fourth floor of the luxury Pierre hotel.
“With its whitewashed walls, herrington-bone wood floors, and a carved marble fireplace punctuating the main room, the pied-a-terre-like space is just what French colorist Reyad Fritas had in mind when he left his longtime post,” the Vogue piece gushed.
“I wanted it to feel intimate like a modern Parisian apartment, so people could feel at home,” Fritas told the magazine.
Fekkai’s Manhattan Supreme Court suit is not as warm and fuzzy.
It alleges Fritas, along with three stylists and two colorists from Fekkai’s Fifth Avenue and Soho locations, “conspired together to open a competitive hair salon enterprise by coordinating their resignations, misappropriating Fekkai client information and soliciting Fekkai customers.”
The suit seeks at least $1 million from Fritas and the five ex-employees. Fritas declined comment.
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