Born and raised in Osaka, Japan. Kosuke started his career over 13 years ago. After training and working in Japan for 10 years he moved to London to further his hairdressing career. His passion for culture soon lead him to Berlin, where he has found his second home. He lives by the motto “Good hair = Good Life”.

Originally from a Cornish seaside town in England, Codi is looking forward to the fast paced city life that Berlin has to offer. She moved to Berlin after traveling around Asia & Australia for 3-4 years to find inspiration and to get more in touch with her creative side.

Yan’s experience spans across three of the main European cities: Paris, London and now Berlin. He’s headed up teams in charge of fashion events, worked with designers and trained other stylists. Berlin’s the city he loves, from where he continues his passion for hairdressing alongside director roles for Paris Fashion Week.

Valentina joined the team this year. She is Chilean, and besides being a hairstylist she is a psychologist. However, she decided to leave that job behind to devote herself to hairdressing, which is what she likes the most. She specialises in colour, where her strengths are balayages and pastels. She speaks Spanish, English and also German.

Over 15 years cutting hair professionally, trained and qualified at Toni and Guy academy new oxford street London where I assisted and worked on countless BHA shoots. Later moved to HOB salons and worked at their Camden academy cutting hair and also began to work more in education. Later moved to Taylor Taylor London as an art director and began to work with famous hairdresser Guido Palou. I assisted Guido for 5 seasons and have worked globally for him, where I have cut hair on shows and shoots for many brands from Prada to Louis Vuitton.

Born and trained in the south of Andalusia, Miguel started his career in 2000 followed by 8 years in London where he gained experience in many salons incl. ESHK and catwalk shows (LFW). Miguel specialises in short hair and loves working with curls. He has combined this love with electronic music,  producing and releasing his own material. After moving to Berlin he joined forces with Meg & Fernando opening ESHK Berlin, bringing hair & music together in the up and coming areas of Neukölln and Moabit.

Our Andalucian sunshine, Maribel, has been working with ESHK Berlin from before opening. Her upbeat character brings happy vibes to the salon, making sure the team works at it’s best. If you’re looking for a new set of tunes, Mari will gladly recommend some great records we have in-store.

Coming all the way from Aotearoa, Sophia is the latest kiwi to join the ESHK family. After spending a year travelling around Europe, Sophia settled in Berlin. When she’s not on the ESHK reception, Soph writes on art and culture for local magazines and plays the drums for two berlin based projects.

Dal is a German animation director based in Berlin. She graduated with an MA in Animation at Royal College of Art in London in 2018. Her films have been shown around the world and highly accoladed.
She moved back to Berlin to work on her own projects and grow as an artist. Dal already gained work experience as a receptionist in a hair salon in London and wanted to keep working in this field while producing further independent animation projects. She was quite excited to find a London salon based in Berlin. She loves the vibe at ESHK and enjoys working in an international team.

Tomoki Tamura started his journey with dance music in Japan and has come a long way since. A move to London in 2004 inaugurated a series of Holic nights that would eventually lead him to rock the floors of top London venues including Fabric, Ministry of Sound, and Plastic People. Meanwhile, he had gained enough experience and respect to earn himself a residency at the legendary club The END / AKA from 2007 until its closure in 2009. We’re honored to have him at ESHK to curate the vinyl on sale in our record stores in Berlin.