The Hands

Three stylists.

Trained between Paris, Tokyo and London. Each takes a small book of clients and answers their own line. Below: who they are, who they cut for, and how to request them.

Stylist I.

Léa Marchand

Founder · Creative Director

Léa trained for six years at the Bruno Dessange atelier in Paris and another three at Sessions in London under Eugene Souleiman. She opened Maison Lior in 2009 with four chairs and a single phone line, and has resisted opening a second room ever since.

Her cutting work has appeared in Vogue Paris, M Le Monde, AnOther and the Acne Paper studio shoots from 2017 onward. She still works two days a week on the floor, and the rest in the back room with new colourists. She does not take walk-ins; existing clients book by name.

Léa's signature is the long French haircut — soft, internally weight-removed, never styled. She believes a cut is finished only after the client has slept on it. Her chair is for women who want to keep their hair, not redesign it.

Editorial cutting
Long-layer shapes
Architectural pixie
Consultation-led work

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Stylist II.

Yusuke Tanaka

Master Colourist

Yusuke trained for nine years between the Air Aoyama studio in Tokyo and the Daniel Hersheson colour room in London. He moved to Paris in 2018 and joined the atelier the following spring. He is one of fewer than thirty Oribe-certified master colourists working in continental Europe.

His balayage is famously slow — he books a single client per morning and refuses to rush a tone he cannot stand behind. He spends two weeks a year on the road, consulting for two Japanese houses each Paris fashion week and shooting with a small group of editorial photographers.

Yusuke colours blondes others have given up on. He is patient with hair that has been processed too many times, and unsentimental about cutting length to save tone. His chair is for clients who want lived-in, sun-kissed colour that grows out without a return visit.

Hand-painted balayage
Couleur correction
Lived-in blondes
Editorial colour
Oribe certified

@yusuke.couleur Request Yusuke

Black and white portrait of Adele Rousseau, senior stylist, three quarter view.

Stylist III.

Adèle Rousseau

Senior Stylist · Bridal Lead

Adèle grew up in Marseille and trained in Antwerp under the late Yves Vinck. She joined Maison Lior in 2017 after seven years between the south of France and Belgium, and now leads the atelier's bridal practice from January to October.

Her cutting is soft and shape-led, but her real signature is the way she dresses hair for occasion — chignons that hold for fifteen hours, second-day waves, the half-up that does not look planned. She trains the rest of the team on bridal day-of, and travels with the dress when the wedding is outside Paris.

She takes bridal clients eight months ahead and accepts no more than twelve weddings a year. Her atelier days book first; she keeps Tuesdays and Saturdays for new clients who arrive by referral.

Bridal styling
Long-layered cuts
Occasion dressing
Wedding party
On-location work

@adele.rsl Request Adèle

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