Famous Soviet hairdresser Dolores Kondrashova passed away at the age of 86. TV presenter Oksana Pushkina announced this on social networks.
“We loved the same music. They understood him, they knew how to listen. I watched some movies. They talked a lot about life, people, parents, beloved men and children. They traveled with pleasure and celebrated joyful events. It was even comfortable to be quiet with him … He always gave. I never took it. A wonderful woman turned hairdressing into an art!” – Wrote Oksana Pushkina, who has a long friendship with Dolores Kondrashova.
The TV presenter recalled that Dolores Kondrashova was one of the first female protagonists of the program “Woman’s Gaze”.
“One in a million! For a quarter of a century we have been connected by strong friendship! Dolores Kondrashova is gone. Forever. Shame on us,” Pushkin admitted.
Born in Baku, Dolores Kondrashova moved to Moscow with her mother and sister after her father’s death. She became interested in hairdressing in the capital. She is the winner of the Friendship Cup hairdressing competition held between socialist countries in 1970 and won a silver medal at the World Hairdressing Championship in Paris.
Dolores Kondrashova was the head of the Hairstyling Laboratory under the Ministry of Consumer Services for 18 years, from 1971 until the last moment she remained the head coach of the Russian national team of hairdressers. She founded Dolores magazine, a professional publication for hairdressers and beauticians, in 1992, and opened the Hairdressing Academy in 1997, she.
One of Dolores Kondrashova’s students it was hairstylist Sergey Zverev.