When Andie MacDowell, as one of Latifah's rich clients from the largely white salon she left to set up on her own, walks into Queen Latifah's shop, everyone (customers and staff alike) gasps in shock.
Figure 11 Dahlen castle, white salon, western wall, right part of test area 1: demonstration area for white gypsum stucco consolidation before (left) and after (right) treatment.
Typically, Nicolas Ghesquiere stages his Balenciaga shows in a cozy, fondant-white salon at the Crillon or in his showroom.
Even now, sitting in her impeccable all-white salon in Beverly Hills, Calif., on a day off, Ms. White vibrates with antic energy.
It's like if I imagine a group of women in a white beauty salon, then I imagine a group of black women in a beauty salon, that's a different culture.
Black women — and most black men, for that matter — will through necessity have gone to a white hairdressing salon at some point, only to be looked at as if they have three heads.
In the mid-1730s the artist Christophe Huet (1700-1759) was commissioned by Louis-Henri, the duke of Bourbon, to paint scenes with monkey vignettes on the walls of an elegant white Rococo salon with gilded stucco ornaments.
His trial, in which he was accused of killing a white beauty salon owner, had lasted all of one week: two days for jury selection, one day to hear the case, one day for the jury to decide his guilt, and the last day to sentence him to death.
On the catwalk, the models' long straight hair simply tied back with gold clasps and the flat shoes which allowed them to pad quietly through the white-painted salon, had perhaps a touch of Valentino about them.
The meal unfolded with reassuring consistency: the customary bottle of white Menetou-Salon (a '98 from Jean-Paul Gilbert, $13) was set on the table along with a bottle of creme de cassis so we could make our own kirs.
We were sitting on the wide white sofa in his salon.
