John Morrey
John Douglas Morrey (born October 8, 1940) is a world champion Australian hairstylist, businessman, teacher, public speaker and hotel owner, and is most well known for his Melbourne, Australia hairdressing salons, and hairdressing school during the 1970s to 1990s. Salons bearing his name still operate today in Melbourne. He has also lived in Ubud, Bali, and the Gold Coast, Australia where he currently resides,
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Early years
John was born and grew up in Melbourne, Australia, in the suburb of South Caulfield. John attend Caulfield Grammar, leaving at 16 to start his hair dressing apprenticeship
His mother, Joan Morrey (née McCauley ) b. 12 November 1916 d. 9 February 2010 was also a hairdresser, as was her sister Mary. Joan was married twice, the first time to Morrey's father.
His father Ken Morrey, was an insurance broker and the first insurance person to sell one million pounds of life assurance in one year in Australia in early 1950s.
Joan's mother and John's grandmother (Nan), Annie Baxter had three husbands - the first dying in his 20's in a farming accident, and was a well known society hairdresser with a salon in Elwood, Melbourne in the 1940s called Madame McCauley. During the Depression, Annie created a successful business by creating a payment program where customers paid a weekly fee then received services whenever they liked in return. John said, "Nan was always busy".
He has a younger brother Ian Morrey b.30/11/44. who is also a hairdresser in Melbourne, and nephews Anthony, Nicolas and Christopher Morrey.
Career
John started work in his 'Nan's' salon in the 1940s on holidays and after school. Joan worked in the same salon before opening her first salon in the Chevron Hotel, St Kilda Road, Melbourne in the early 1950s
John's apprenticeship was with Melbourne-based Swiss hairstylist Frederick Mueller in 1956, finishing at age 20 to take over his mother's Chevron Hotel salon, when she moved to the UK with her second husband.
During his apprenticeship, John won the Australian Junior of the Year (International Hair Style Society) and Australian Hairstyling Apprentice of the Year.
Off the back of operating his mother's salon, John opened his first 'John Morrey Salon', at 101 Toorak Road, South Yarra, in 1963. The salon featured 14 chairs and 16 shampoo basins.
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John and his staff continued to enter national and international hair competitions, with 44 awards in total, and John personally winning 17 of these.
Following competition success, John increased his personal hair cutting prices from 2 pounds to 4 pounds - the most expensive in Melbourne at the time the House of Merivale
When Joan retired from active work, John took over the salon.
In 1971 John was fined $213 for staff wearing hot pants instead of the approved uniform "that made them look like dental nurses". The laws were changed soon after.
The school was sold in, and Morrey concentrated on his salons.
He was very active in hairdressing competitions throughout his career winning a number of world titles( refer full list of awards below).
John became well known for innovative styles, and controversy with the then conservative hairdressing establishment of the 1960s.
He was contemporary of the UK's VidalSassoon, and they regularly competed against each other in international competitions.
He sold his business interests in 2004 and moved to the Gold Coast, building a Balinese style home that featured in the UK Magazine - 25 Beautiful Homes , May 2009
Personal life[edit]
John is married to Jackie Morrey.
Awards[edit]
Victorian Junior Evening Style 1959 (MLHA) First prize, then 1959 Victorian Junior of the year in the same awards
Junior of the Year - Australia 1950 (IHS)
1961 IHS Senior Fantasy - 5th IHS Championship. Senior styling. 2nd
1962 MLHA Training the winner - Ian Morrey and Faye Halperin -
1963 (Aust) Victorian personality the month - Beautyrama Magazine
1963 (Aust) Senior Day Style 1st 1963 IHS (Aust) Evening grand evening style 2nd IHS 1963 (Aust)
1963 Member of the Australian Team, the 8th International Club Championship, New York. Awarded a Diploma and the Silver Trophy of Vienna
1964 Senior Day Style 1st MLHA (Aust)
1964 Evening style 3rd MLHA (Aust)
1964 2nd Australian Professional Championships (Aust)
1964 Australia's champion hair colourist 1st (Aust) 1st 1965 IHS Australian Champion (AUST)
1st 1965 MLH Australian Champion (Aust)
1966 Australian team captain of the IHS 15 man team for the World Supreme Championship, New York US - John personally won three medals. 2nd permanent waving, 3rd hair shaping, 3rd hair styling. The tour including demonstrations in Bangkok, Thailand
1966 IHS South Australian championship 1st
1966 3rd Senior evening style IHS Australian Championships. Apprentice Judyanne Girolami came 1st
1967. John Morrey Salon staff won four awards at the IHS Australian Championships 1967 John won south Australian Open hair shaping championship. Judyaanne worn 1st junior styling champion
1968 John Morrey Salon won 13 trophies at the IHS Australian Championship including staffer Anne Mareer Granger, winning international styling championships, the first woman to ever win this award. 1968 - New York. AnnualWorld hairstyling forum. representing Australia. Demonstrator and judge of the world hairdressing championships - uncornfirmed as the youngest judge in the awards history. This visit included a return demonstration in Bangkok
1969 1st inaugural Australian photographic hair competition
1969 IHS Australian Hair championships. Salon won five years awards. Judyanne won two senior evening awards - another first for an Australian woman. Junior Day Style, Junior of the year evening style, senior day style, evening style
coveted Salon of the Year award.
1970 Australian representative: world championships Stuttgart, (Germany)
1972 Australian representative: World championship Barcelona (Spain) 1970 John Morrey Salon won nine Awards four 1sts and three 2nds and two thirds - IHS Victorian Championships
1970 two 1st and one second at the IIHS National awards. John Morrey Salon won Champion salon award. 1st and 2nd for junior Day style. 1sts Senior day style.
1970 Australian photographic hair styling awards staffer Judyanne Geroloni 1st 1971 hair styling championships. 9 awards including 3rd junior day style, 1st senior wig style, 3rd senior wig style, 1st and 3rd Junior evening style, 1st senior day style, 3rd grand gala style, 1st and 3rd and senior cocktail style.
1971 12 awards at the IHDS Victorian championships (John was awarded the first award honoured award at the time of selected and received the Life Directorship of the Federal International Hair Stylists Society of Australia. Also received received the Australian championship Salon Award.
1972 Salon awards: 1st and 2nd Senior evening style 1st junior day style - IHS Australian championships
1973 salon awards: 21 awards at the Australian IHS Hairstyling Championships. junior day style 1st and 2nd, 1st apprentice cutting championships, 2nd junior evening style, 1st 2nd and 3rd senior day style, 1st, 2nd and third inspiration free style, salon of the year, 3rd Australian cutting championships plus minor awards. 1974
May 16 1982 - Invited to present a show at the Oro London Beauty Festival, The Barbican Centre, London, - 33 salons worldwide including Vidal Sassoon, Toni & Guy and Pierre Alexandre and John was the first Australian to be invited to present a show. john partnered with, Australian Fashion Designer Jenny Bannister and make up artists Richard Shara. John Morrey Salon won the "Best Show of the 30 hair designers represented at the festival at the Festival.[2]
Salons[edit]
April 1961 - 1964 Joan Morrey Salon. Chevron Hotel, St Kilda Road, Melbourne
1962 - 1970 John Morrey Salon, Edgewater Towers, St Kilda. Bother, Ian Morrey took over in 1963 and changed th toe name Ian Morrey Salon.
1965 - John Morrey Salon, 101 Toorak Road, Sth Yarra
13 Aug 1974 - John Morrey Salon, House of Merivale and Mr John, 245 Collins St, Melbourne CBD
1976 The John Morrey School of Hairdressing School - 2nd Floor, House of Merivale and Mr John, 245 Collins St, Melbourne CBD
April 1977 John Morrey Salon, Bourke Road, Camberwell, Melbourne
John Morrey Doncaster
John Morrey Chadstone
John Morrey Southland
John Morrey Northland
Sold to a staff conglomerate in 2004
2005 - 2010 Private Salon in Florida Gardens, Queensland
Victorian state chairman and director of IHS - 1973
Racehorses[edit]
Shazam
Neat and Fast
Quezon Emperor
Foxing
Ego Trip
Twin States
Homes[edit]
Morrey was well known for his homes, and they have been featured in national magazines a number of times.
His
References[edit]
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