Yilmaz Sahin

You know those small details that you let slide when you’re at the salon? You know that the cut will be spot on, but the tea is tepid. Your tint is just so, but there’s a spot of dye on your…

You know those small details that you let slide when you’re at the salon? You know that the cut will be spot on, but the tea is tepid. Your tint is just so, but there’s a spot of dye on your ear. Those things just won’t happen at Yilmaz Sahin’s Chelsea salon, RYS, because he’s a stickler for detail, and also, happily, great hair.

Calm, slick and cosy, everything about RYS purrs ‘luxe’. Yilmaz is one of Turkey’s top hairdressers, and from this new salon and Yilmaz’s somehow innate sense of what you want (and what will suit you), you can see why. Having trained since the age of 16 with L’Oréal, Wella and Vidal Sassoon, Yilmaz has both the schooling and the hairdresser ‘sixth sense’ that makes him an exceptional stylist and colourist. Our mole nipped in for a mani, some balayage, a snip and a blow dry and emerged glossy and groomed in remarkably quick time. The coffee’s superb, the outdoor salon is quite literally a breath of fresh air on a hot day and the bespoke service and advice is extremely impressive indeed.