{{Short description|English hairdresser}} {{Infobox person | name = Anthony Mascolo | birth_date = {{birth date and age text|27 April 1957}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Editor-in-chief, INFRINGE<br> Creative director of TIGI | title = | term = | known_for = 3-time winner of "British Hairdresser of the Year" | spouse = Pat Mascolo | children = 3 | parents = Francesco and Maria Mascolo | relatives = Toni Mascolo (brother) | website = http://www.infringe.com <br> http://www.tigiprofessional.com }}
'''Anthony Mascolo''' (born 27 April 1957) is a hairdresser and international creative director of TIGI, a hair care product business.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ukhairdressers.com/tigi/Tigi_Profile.asp|title=Tigi, Hair & Beauty Industry - Business Profiles|website=www.ukhairdressers.com|language=en|access-date=2017-09-07}}</ref> He has won the title "British Hairdresser of the Year" three times.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.hji.co.uk/top-hairdressers/hairdressing-icons-anthony-mascolo/|title=Hairdressing Icons: Anthony Mascolo - HJI|date=2012-01-04|work=HJI|access-date=2017-09-07|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Early years == Mascolo was born in London, the son of Italian immigrants, Francesco and Maria Mascolo, the youngest of five brothers, four of whom were to become hairdressers. By the time he left school he was a competent and fully qualified hairdresser. His first job was in the family's Toni & Guy salon in South London, where his father and brother Bruno also worked. Anthony specialised in hairdressing for photographic shoots, and became a photographer himself.<ref name=":0" />
== TIGI == In 2002 when TIGI demerged from its parent company Toni & Guy,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tigi.tw/tigihistory-en/|title=TIGI History|website=www.tigi.tw|access-date=2017-09-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913200920/http://www.tigi.tw/tigihistory-en/|archive-date=2017-09-13|url-status=dead}}</ref> Anthony became international creative director . With his wife Pat he opened Bed Head Photographic Studios, in Battersea, London, and 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 they opened the TIGI Creative Academy in London.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}
In April 2009 TIGI's global operation was acquired by Unilever. Mascolo has been retained as a creative consultant.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}
== Personal life == Anthony married his wife Pat in 1986.<ref name=":1" /> They have 3 children: Georgina, Alexandra, and Joshua.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.esteticamagazine.com/eventsnews/item/18454-the-launch-of-infringe-an-interview-with-anthony-and-pat-mascolo|title=The launch of Infringe – An Interview with Anthony and Pat Mascolo|work=Estetica Magazine|access-date=2017-09-07|language=en-us}}</ref> His favourite pastime is skiing.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://hotonbeauty.com/articles/31/anthony_mascolo_the_ultimate_family_man|title=Anthony Mascolo The Ultimate Family Man|last=How|first=Hair's|work=HotOnBeauty.com|access-date=2017-09-07|language=en-US}}</ref>
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