Founders | Hair Salon Chicago | Michael & Michael
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For over 20 years, Michael & Michael has been an award winning salon known for its dedication to the art & craft of hair design & color. It has earned a national reputation for creating looks that blend modern trends and each client’s natural beauty and unique sense of style.
Michael Crowley
Co-Founder, President & CEO
Co-founder of the salon with Michael Jacobson, Michael is the business mind behind the Michael & Michael brand. Raised in a small town in Ohio where his father was both mayor and a successful entrepreneur, Michael grew up with competing passions for art and business that influenced much of his educational and professional careers.
He pursued music and theatre throughout high school and at the University of Cincinnati, singing with the Men’s Glee Club at UC’s prestigious Conservatory while serving as a leader in student politics and campus arts organizations. Instead of choosing one path, Michael chose three, ultimately earning degrees in political science, business and law.
His business background includes working 12 years as a litigator at a prestigious law firm, serving as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago, and acting as COO for a venture capital-backed technology startup. Michael also served on the adjunct faculty of Loyola University Chicago, where he taught postbaccalaureate courses in litigation and labor employment law. Michael then moved read more
Michael Jacobson
Co-Founder & Creative Mind behind Michael & Michael
(1965 -2021)
A leader in the Chicago fashion community for more than 30 years, Michael was one of the country’s most sought-after hairdressers, serving clients from coast to coast. A born artist, Michael began hairdressing in his mother’s kitchen while still in high school, earning his cosmetology license before graduation. He explored his diverse artistic interests at the Academy for the Dramatic Arts in NYC, studying theatre and voice, before dedicating himself fully to the design and aesthetics of hair.
Over the years, he studied in New York and abroad with the industry’s elite, including Eiji Yamane, John Sahag, Nick Arrojo and Oribe, on the way to developing his own creative vision.
Often described as a “hair architect” because of his unparalleled ability to build shape from the inside out, Michael’s hairdressing and precision dry-cutting read more
