1990s
1991. Oribe opened his Fifth Avenue salon at Elizabeth Arden in New York City (he was introduced to the cosmetics company by the model Vendela (who was its new face).
Rita Hazan, hair colour stylist spent the first ten years of her career at the Oribe Manhattan salon.
Oribe created imagery with Gianni Versace, like the advertising portfolios by the photographer Richard Avedon of the models Kristen McMenamy and Nadja Auermann or the model Stephanie Seymour, posing with Marcus Schenkenberg.
1992. He was asked by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to design hair from raffia for the reopening of the Costume Institute galleries. The results, which Oribe spent months completing, decorated Ralph Pucci mannequins created specially for the occasion with Christy Turlington’s likeness.
1995. When John F. Kennedy Jr. cast Cindy Crawford as a midriff-baring George Washington for the inaugural cover of his celebrity-stoked political magazine George, Oribe styled the Revolutionary lace-front silver wig.
1997. Jennifer Lopez called for Oribe. He was ready for a challenge outside of the fashion world and so he accompanied her to Miami to shoot the cover of her first album, On the 6. He lightened her hair and pulled it tightly over a wig into a long ponytail. Oribe worked with her during her rise and at the heights of her millennial celebrity.
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