Trevor Sorbie

Celebrity stylist with down-to-earth roots

From barbershop boy to Buckingham Palace to collect his MBE Trevor Sorbie is no ordinary hairdresser. Listed in Debretts and the International edition of Who’s Who he is the hair stylist who has won more awards than Nicole Kidman, travelled more air miles than Richard Branson and satisfied more women than even a decade’s worth of rippling Chippendales ever managed.

Pioneer of cuts and styling techniques such as The Wedge, The Chop and The Scrunch and innovator of professional haircare products for the high street, Trevor Sorbie has won the coveted British Hairdresser of the Year title an unrivalled four times.

His diverse catalogue of TV credits range from GMTV and This Morning to Call My Bluff, Whatever You Want, Through the Keyhole, Watchdog and the Channel 4 documentary, Faking It. He is the only hairdresser to have become so well known that his vocation has been a question on Who wants to be a Millionaire and The Weakest Link.

Contemporaries and competitors meanwhile hero-worship the fun-loving and unassuming Sorbie. A “brilliant career” created by the combination of “original thinking with superb technical ability” says Vidal Sassoon of his former Artistic Director. Anthony Mascolo acknowledges him as “one of the best hairdressers ever - both directionally and creatively”, while Patrick Cameron describes him as a “great mentor for many thousands of hairdressers.

AWARDS:
2007 - Creative Head Award for Most Innovative Concept for My New Hair
2006 - Appointed Ambassador for Hairdressers of the World Against Aids
2006 - International Icon Hall of Leaders Award
2006 - Global Icon Award Winner
2004 - Most Wanted! Influential Hairdresser of 2004
2004 - Winner of the AIPP Grand Trophy of the Professional Press
2004 - Awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List
2003 - The Fellowship for British Hairdressing - Inspirational Leader
2003 - Winner of the AIPP Trophy 2003 in the Best Photo category
2003 - Most Wanted! Influential Hairdresser of 2003
2003 - AHFA British Master’s Award
2003 - First Patron of Honour for the Fellowship of Australian Hairdressing
2003 - Awarded Fellowship of the City and Guilds London Institute (FCGI)
2002 - Pantene Pro V – Celebrity Hairdresser of the Year
2002 - Aveda Master of the Arts
2001 - Winner of the AIPP Grand Trophy of the Professional Press
1997 - Best Haircutter Worldwide
1997 - Most Newsworthy Male Worldwide (IBS Award)
1996 - Most Newsworthy Male Worldwide (IBS Award)
1996 - Finalist British Hairdresser of the Year
1995 - World Congress Hall of Fame
1995 - Living Legend Award New York
1995 - Finalist British Hairdresser of the Year
1993 - Patron D’Honneur Lifetime Hairdressing Award
1993 - Best Education Award (USA)
1992 - British Hairdresser of the Year
1991 - Avant Garde Stylist of the Year
1991 - British Hairdressing Hall of Fame
1991 - British Hairdresser of the Year
1991 - London Stylist of the Year
1990 - Foreign Stylist of the Year (voted by Peluquerias magazine)
1989 - London Stylist of the Year
1989 - Avant Garde Stylist of the Year
1986 - British Hairdresser of the Year
1986 - London Stylist of the Year
1985 - British Hairdresser of the Year
1985 - National Hairdresser of the Year
1985 - Joint London Hairdresser of the Year