Best Men’s Salon
New York Magazine — and a four-time “Best of Beauty” winner for Martial Vivot.
The press on Martial Vivot.
New York’s first men’s salon, opened in 2008 beside the MoMA — and the standard the city’s press has measured men’s grooming against ever since.
Martial Vivot is the best in the city.
The gentleman’s barber for many of the city’s most powerful.
A master class in the proper shave.
Discreet, with the air of an exclusive men’s club.
In the press since 2008
Best high-end barbershop.
Financial Times · 2025
Recognition
“Best high-end barbershop”
Financial Times — “Sharp cuts: a guide to the barbershops of New York” (2025).
An exclusive men’s club
Forbes (2019) — “discreet, with the air of an exclusive men’s club” (private styling stations, by appointment).
100 Coolest Dads in America
Fatherly (2018) named Martial Vivot to its national list — in company that included Barack Obama, LeBron James, John Legend, Justin Timberlake and Donald Glover.
On screen
Featured in the men’s-grooming documentary “Mansome.”
As seen in GQ · Esquire · Vanity Fair · Details · AskMen · Departures · People · InStyle · W
The Chair the City’s Leading Men Choose
For more than fifteen years, Martial Vivot has prepared leading men in film, music and business — from Matt Bomer and Rob Lowe to David Byrne, Keith Richards and Mark Ronson — for the screen, the stage and the room, with the discretion the work demands.
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