I'll be working several shows at this year's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Feb. I've been working as a hair stylist at the Spring and Fall shows for the years now, and have done looks for designers like Vera Wang, Cynthia Rowley, Carmen Marc Valvo, House of Betsy Johnson, Proenza Schouler (there are several others, but these were some of the ones I did last September.)

Professional Beauty sold to Trades Exhibitions

The magazine and shows were sold for an undisclosed sum in a deal completed on Friday. Moloney previously ran Professional Beauty for 19 years before selling the magazine and shows to Emap in December 2006.

The magazine will continue to operate as a monthly publication with 11 issues per year but will be published by the Trades Exhibitions team from the January issue.

The Professional Beauty Manchester exhibition, which is scheduled to run from October 10 to 11 at Manchester Central exhibition centre, will continue as planned. The 2010 edition will be run by Emap but Trades Exhibitions will organise all Professional Beauty shows thereafter.

Prior to the sale, Moloney had launched a beauty trade show called Total Beauty to run at Excel London from February 27 to 28. This show will now be rebranded to be called Professional Beauty incorporating Total Beauty.

The Professional Beauty show that Emap had planned to run at Olympia, London in March will now not go ahead. Instead the show will be rolled into the February event at Excel.

Moloney said he intended to grow the combined Excel event into one of the leading beauty shows in Europe with all the important brands from skincare, equipment, nails and tanning in attendance. The 2011 show will be 50% bigger than this year