Peru salon owner finds her place backstage at New York, Paris fashion weeks

Hairstylist Hailey Ann Bruno of Tonica, and owner of Adler Salon in Peru, recently returned from working backstage at both New York and Paris fashion weeks, styling models at some of the fashion industry’s biggest stages.Her first morning was a wake-up call. Half awake at 5:30 a.m. as the models filed in, she watched two who arrived minutes late get turned away on the spot.“Oh, we’re in it,” she thought. “We are in it now.”Hair was the family business. Her grandmother, Jeanette Tomsha, has been doing hair since the 1980s, and Bruno grew up in her salon. She never planned on hair as a career, not until her grandfather George got sick. She enrolled in beauty school shortly after he passed and fell in love with the work while wrapping perms.Fashion week found her before she felt ready. She was asked to do New York and Paris back in 2022, she said, but turned it down. She didn’t have the confidence yet. Then someone reached out on social media about doing New York, and this time she said y