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GAMO NEWS features our CEO Ken Kobayashi in its series VISIONARY
In September 2019, GAMO NEWS — the magazine of the Japanese beauty-trade company GAMO — featured our CEO Ken Kobayashi in its series 'VISIONARY', in print and on its website.
The series
VISIONARY introduces hairdressers through interviews, focusing on the concepts and activities with which they widen what a hairdresser does.
The feature
The feature looks at the 'Assort way': not held back by what the industry takes for granted, always chasing a world no one has seen yet. It follows Ken from Dallas, Texas, where he grew up, to Japan, where he came on his own to become a hairdresser — beauty school while working in salons, then work as a freelance stylist, and in 2011 the opening of ASSORT TOKYO in Aoyama.
Its later chapters turn to why the support of local people matters for a salon abroad, and to careers for the team.
The feature, in Japanese, can be read on GAMO NEWS's website; the link is below. It shows Assort as it was in 2019.
About GAMO NEWS
GAMO NEWS is published by GAMO, a Japanese beauty-trade company founded in 1927 that supplies hair salons with professional products. Its website, GAMONEW, shares interviews with salons, professional products and trends for hairdressers.
Thank you to GAMO NEWS, and to everyone who read the feature.
Written by Assort