Lucie Saint-Clair was born in Cherbourg (Normandy). A daughter of Norman industrial workers, very early on she chose the hairdressing sector, for which she showed true passion and real talent. She trained at the famous L'Oreal school, rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré (Paris).

There, she learnt hairdressing and technique, as well as aestheticism, and came out top of her year. On graduating, offers flooded in from established Parisian hairdressers, but Lucie chose to return to Cherbourg. Very quickly Lucie became known as a talented professional.

Returning to Paris from this provincial interlude, she opened her first salon on avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie in the XVIth arrondissement. The salon, named after her, saw immediate success and clients queued in the stairs to wait for their beauty treatment from the star of scissors, assisted by a beautician and a colourist. Barely six months after her opening, Lucie Saint-Clair was interviewed by a famous journalist at the time and did her first studio sittings for the photographers Helmut Newton and Guy Baudin. In 1967, she then decided to expand her salon and little by little bought up the boutiques around her. She then began to open a new outlet every two years in different areas of Paris, such as Montparnasse, Saint Germain des Pres, Passy,... In order to maintain her luxury image, alongside her salons Lucie Saint-Clair created her own school so that her associates would have the perfect training, where nothing would be left to fate...

The great of this world entrusted her with their heads and she knew the jet set and show biz to the tips of their hair: she styled the hair of Farah Diba on her way to the throne, the Giscard D'Estaing family, the Rothschilds... Invited to the most glamorous parties all over the world, she met many businessmen who wanted to go into partnership with her, but she chose independence and preferred to run her company alone. She opened her first salon in the United States, then a second, followed by salons in Russia and Morocco,... as successful as those in Paris. She went from one award and opening to the next, and set up exclusively in Disneyland. She became a partner of the greatest international media events and was hairdresser and make-up stylist to over 30 worldwide events. Her reputation had no boundaries.

In 2001, faced with a double request from both her clients and hairdressers, she decided to create her own franchise and set up an entire organisation and recruitment system, which she went through with a tooth comb. In February 2003, the Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale (Society for the Encouragement of National Industry) awarded her the Montgolfier prize for her contribution to the development of the Luxury and Beauty industry throughout the world, and on 18 February 2005 she was awarded the medal of Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur by the President of the French Republic Jacques Chirac.

Today, Lucie Saint-Clair remains a family-run business, despite the firm being established worldwide. Her son, Michel, manages all the wholly-owned salons.