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R+Co shares ways to support small businesses, including your favorite local salons + barbershops.

Leave it to designer Anna Sui to find the beauty in horror—in particular, art-driven ’60s and ’70s foreign horror films, like the 1971 Belgium movie Daughters of Darkness, a surreal Gothic glamor feast of the undead, and the 1964 Italian slasher Blood and Black Lace centered around the violent death of a fashion model and the corrupt fashion house that employed her.

BRIGHT SHADOWS: The name bubbles with contradictions—and that’s exactly how R+Co Creative Director Amanda Walls wants it to be. We chatted with Wall about how she came up with BRIGHT SHADOWS’ name and intriguing packaging.

R+Co sought the partnership of trail-blazing Gryph & IvyRose, a children’s brand focused on holistic wellness for children.

To say that ELECTRIC HOUSE lived up to its power-charged name would be an understatement.

Always masterful at balancing her moody punk aesthetic with vibrant whimsy, Sui debuted a feast of light-as-air patch-worked floral patterns. For the accompanying hairstyle, R+Co co-founder Garren sought inspiration in the whipped updos portrayed in turn-of-the-20th-century Gibson Girls illustrations.

We asked R+Co co-founders Howard McLaren, Garren and Thom Priano to share their favorite under-the-radar NYC haunts so you can enjoy some of what makes this city electric.

Andrew Katz is teaming up with R+Co to produce Electric House, a live theatrical exploration of hair’s place in the not-so-far-away future.

The latest addition to R+Co offers a veritable bouquet of hair benefits, which is why R+Co collaborated with florist Brittany Asch for the design of CENTERPIECE.

Are you ready to be electrified? If a creative spark is what you need in the here and now, you’ll find it at Electric House, R+Co’s barrier-breaking, new immersive education experience that grants you a view of hairdressing in the next millennium.

Sally Draper, no longer: Actress Kiernan Shipka has shed her ingénue status as “Mad Men” teen in exchange for Netflix series lead of the supernatural hit “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”

Inspired by the tongue-in-cheek theme, hairstylist Rosibel Argueta, who styled TV host Giuliana Rancic using R+Co products, took one look at Rancic’s soft pink vinyl dress and thought: Barbie.

Garren Shares How to Get His Sky-High Hairstyles from Harper’s Bazaar “The Rise of Big Hair”

We are thrilled to announce a collab between R+Co and the West Coast fashion destination cu-rated by none other than our new collective member and L.A. native, Ashley Streicher!

And then there were four: R+Co is pleased to announce the addition of celebrity hairstylist and Striiike co-founder Ashley Streicher to The Collective.

In the colorful world of Anna Sui, anything goes—and that includes spunky, ROYGBIV-dyed wigs raised to the roof and delightfully topped with a petite bow.

Irish wools and Italian tweeds painstakingly distressed to appear as though they’ve withstood a trans-Atlantic journey: Menswear designer Joseph Abboud’s Fall/winter 2019 NYFW collection paid homage to turn-of-the-20th-Century immigrants in search of asylum and the types of clothes they wore on their arduous three-month voyages to America.

With R+Co newly reformulated to 100% vegan, Co-Founder Thom Priano, a 10-year vegan himself, couldn’t be more ecstatic. Because Thom walks the walk, we sat down with him to talk the talk on R+Co’s big switch to 100% vegan products.

In honor of VISION ON, our very own Howard McLaren, Garren and Thom Priano and R+Co’s Creative Director Amanda Wall have put together the definitive L.A. Guide—a list of their favorite L.A. hot-spots to hit while you’re in town!

For Anna Sui’s Spring-Summer 2019 show, Garren designed two brilliant hair looks by riffing on and enhancing Sui’s theme of magical wanderlust, fairy tales and her direct inspiration from the 1955 movie, Kismet.