A styling star lands in Redondo
Scott Parker at work in Riviera Village. Photo Scott Parker wasn’t planning on a life in hair. He was a kid from a small town north of San Diego called Fallbrook – the self-proclaimed “Avocado Capital of the World” – who happened to notice the only guy in town driving a Mercedes was a hairdresser. Parker had started producing shows for high school bands and upon graduation caught on as an image consultant for an MTV show. As he helped devise “looks” for bands he decided to find out a bit more about this hair business. “It was the 1980s and it was all about bands and how they looked,” he said. “Hair and clothes and all that stuff was really important at that time in music, so I just decided to get some schooling…The first school that had an opening was Vidal Sassoon.” A funny thing happened the very first time he cut a head of hair. It turned out perfectly. And then, as he cut another and another, the same thing kept happening. Parker was able to see how somebody’s hair should and could look best, each and every time. It was almost baffling. “It was the first thing I ever did that came out perfect every time,” he recalled. Parker liked cutting hair way more than he had ever…
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