American Crew All-Star Challenge 2015 Finalists Announced

In just 5 days, on April 20, 2015, fifteen country finalists will be flown to Rome, Italy for the 2014-2015 American Crew All-Star Challenge. Widely considered one of the top men’s grooming competitions among professional hairdressers, the All-Star Challenge is an annual global event that challenges stylists across the world to cut, style and deliver an image of the ultimate interpretation of the modern, classic American Crew man. Each year thousands of submissions are trimmed down to just a select few finalists from countries around the globe.

This Year's Finalists:

• David Andreas Kyrkiris, Canada
• Kevin Birk, Denmark
• Guillaume Fort, France
• Marcel Kuchenbrod, Germany
• Zsanett Fabian, Hungary
• Sergio Criscino, Italy
• Armando Rivas de la Cruz, Mexico
• Inger Lise Moa, Norway
• Jaime Ruiz Tello, Peru
• Krzysztof Chodorski, Poland
• Raul Santana, Spain
• Homan Taghizadeh, Sweden
• Leonard Cakolli, Switzerland
• Sergiy Shapochka, Ukraine
• Alyssa Brasket, United States

The panel of judges for this year's competition will include Sergi Bancells, General Manager USA, Spain, and Latin America, Estetica Magazine; Wayne Gross, Fashion Director, Maxim Magazine; Jerome Kantner, 2013-2014 All-Star Challenge Global Champion; David Raccuglia, Founder, American Crew; and Paul Wilson, Artistic Director, American Crew, Co-Owner and Creative Director, Art + Science Salon, Chicago.

The competition combines the key aspects of the art and science inherent in men's grooming and style -- the cut, the model, and the photograph -- and brings them all together to deliver the ultimate interpretation of the American Crew man.

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