{"id":169594,"date":"2025-06-27T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/?p=169594"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:12:24","slug":"interview-franck-provost-50-years-at-the-top-of-the-hairdressing-world-a-french-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/interview-franck-provost-50-years-at-the-top-of-the-hairdressing-world-a-french-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW &#8211; Franck Provost: 50 years at the top of the hairdressing world, a French success story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>In 2025, Franck Provost will celebrate half a century in hairdressing, a dazzling career that began in humble beginnings and has grown over time into a veritable beauty empire. Behind his name engraved on shop windows around the world lies a visionary entrepreneur, both a hair craftsman and a seasoned businessman, who has made his mark in an ultra-competitive world. Today, at the dawn of a new cycle led by his son Fabien, Maison Provost has never been more ready to attract a new generation of customers and talent. It&#8217;s a wonderful way to prove that half a century of hairdressing can go hand in hand with eternal modernity.<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This <b>son of a soldier and ward of the state<\/b> was not initially <b>destined to become a major figure in the world of hairdressing<\/b>. However, from his first salon, which opened in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1975, he built an empire of more than 3,300 salons in 35 countries. A passionate craftsman and visionary entrepreneur, he combined technical excellence with business acumen to become a household name around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Self-taught and a hard worker<\/b>, Franck Provost stood out from the start with <b>his rare technical skills and almost obsessive attention to his clients&#8217; expectations<\/b>. <b>French champion in 1976, then World Hairdressing Champion in 1977<\/b>, he quickly became part of the show business world. While <b>styling a TV presenter<\/b>, he entered the media sphere and went on to <b>become the personal hairdresser of Catherine Deneuve, Mireille Darc, Sharon Stone, and many others<\/b>. In <b>1979<\/b>, he opened his iconic salon at 61 avenue Franklin Roosevelt in Paris, which became a must-visit destination. A delightful anecdote recounted by Franck Provost himself: &#8220;Once, during a television show in Monaco where I was styling Princess Stephanie&#8217;s hair, we were filming until very late. It was dark on set, and I grabbed the wrong bottle: instead of hairspray, I grabbed water! The result: nothing held, and panic ensued&#8230; We had to start all over again, but I managed to improvise another hairstyle and save the day!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32237\" style=\"width: 1395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32237 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/VISUEL-NO-2-_-\u00a9-Franck-Provost-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1395\" height=\"2048\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Franck Provost<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/en\/interview-franck-provost-50-years-at-the-top-of-the-hairdressing-world-a-french-success-story\/\">Click here to read the full article<\/a> on Luxus Magazine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured photo: Franck Provost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, Franck Provost will celebrate half a century in hairdressing, a dazzling career that began in humble beginnings and has grown over time into a veritable beauty empire. Behind his name engraved on shop windows around the world lies a visionary entrepreneur, both a hair craftsman and a seasoned businessman, who has made his mark in an ultra-competitive world. Today, at the dawn of a new cycle led by his son Fabien, Maison Provost has never been more ready to attract a new generation of customers and talent. It&#8217;s a wonderful way to prove that half a century of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1882,"featured_media":169592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"Vicky Berger met Franck Provost, a leading figure in the global hairdressing industry who is celebrating his 50th anniversary this year.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22488],"tags":[23283,23171,22395,24191],"class_list":["post-169594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-en","tag-beauty-en","tag-france-en","tag-interviews-en","tag-luxus-plus-mag-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}