Local hairdresser snips 50-year career with retirement

Richard Weintraub, with a worldwide, 50-year impact on the beauty salon industry, cuts to the chase for entrepreneurs: "If you always follow the pack," he says, "then you only go as far as the pack."

By Amanda Postma
| 9:40 a.m. September 15, 2022
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Richard Weintraub opened Fashion Focus Hair Design, which later joined the Yellow Strawberry brand,Â in 1974. He owned the salon for 48 years, until announcing his retirement this year. (Photo by Lori Sax)

Leadership

When every other hairstylist was doing roller sets in the 1970s, Richard Weintraub, then a young Sarasota hairstylist, set out to do something different. "That’s what everyone was doing," he says. "It was nothing I aspired to do."