Frankie Foye styles hair for a living, traveling to studios and locations around the world to make models look just right in fashion advertisements for such clients as Bergdorf Goodman and Victoria’s Secret.
Since she spends so many days working with big crews in noisy photography studios filled with blaring music and inordinate demands, she has made her large one-bedroom apartment in the West Village a serene, private sanctuary.
“I hardly ever have people over,” Ms. Foye said recently, as light poured into her living room and kitchen from the three huge windows.
She doesn’t want any bad energy messing up the carefully curated mood of the high-ceilinged rooms. “I love living alone,” Ms. Foye said.
Despite her penchant for quiet, she sometimes colors and cuts the locks of very good friends, or very interesting people, at home. In one corner of her eat-in kitchen, with its ancient painted cabinets and original hinges and door pulls, a chair sits in front of a tall custom-made mirror.
“This is the salon,” she said. “Debbie Harry has had her hair done here. Molly Sims. Jennifer Nettles, the singer from Sugarland. Another singer named Patty Griffin.”
Ms. Foye, who changed her name from Mary Ellen to Frankie years ago, just because it sounded right, grew up far from New York, and celebrities, in Manchester, N.H.
She was the last of seven children, raised by her father after her mother died.
Since she spends so many days working with big crews in noisy photography studios filled with blaring music and inordinate demands, she has made her large one-bedroom apartment in the West Village a serene, private sanctuary.
“I hardly ever have people over,” Ms. Foye said recently, as light poured into her living room and kitchen from the three huge windows.
She doesn’t want any bad energy messing up the carefully curated mood of the high-ceilinged rooms. “I love living alone,” Ms. Foye said.
Despite her penchant for quiet, she sometimes colors and cuts the locks of very good friends, or very interesting people, at home. In one corner of her eat-in kitchen, with its ancient painted cabinets and original hinges and door pulls, a chair sits in front of a tall custom-made mirror.
“This is the salon,” she said. “Debbie Harry has had her hair done here. Molly Sims. Jennifer Nettles, the singer from Sugarland. Another singer named Patty Griffin.”
Ms. Foye, who changed her name from Mary Ellen to Frankie years ago, just because it sounded right, grew up far from New York, and celebrities, in Manchester, N.H.
She was the last of seven children, raised by her father after her mother died.
