Celebrity hairstylist Artur Kirsh will open a salon inside Boyds' Philadelphia flagship store this September, bringing a stylist whose clients include Celine Dion and Carolina Herrera to the fourth floor of one of the city's best-known independent retailers.

WWD reported the partnership on 29 July 2026, citing direct quotes from both Kirsh and Andrew Gushner, the fourth generation of Boyds' founding family. The salon will sit on the fourth floor of the store at 1818 Chestnut Street, in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse district, where Boyds has operated since 1990. WWD

Kirsh is not a household name in the way the people in his chair are. His client list, as reported by WWD, spans Betsey Johnson, Carolina Herrera, Celine Dion, Kathy Griffin, Nicole Miller, and Ken Downing — a roster that runs across fashion design, music, and television. He already maintains a salon at Saks Fifth Avenue, according to his website, and earlier this year opened a location in Narberth, Pennsylvania, a suburb roughly ten miles west of Center City. That salon sits at 948 Montgomery Avenue. arturkirsh.com

The Boyds deal gives Kirsh a second Philadelphia-area location in a single year, and one with a different footing: not a standalone suburb or a department-store chain, but a family-owned specialty retailer that has carried luxury fashion in the city for decades. For Boyds, adding a hair salon means a reason for shoppers to spend more time in the building — and to arrive camera-ready before browsing.

Bringing a beauty service inside a fashion store is not new. Department stores from Saks to Nordstrom have folded salons into their floors for years, treating them as a way to extend a customer's visit beyond browsing racks. What is less common is seeing the model at an independent, single-location store the size of Boyds, where every square foot of selling space carries a different cost calculation than it would inside a national chain.

Kirsh's website lists the Philadelphia opening for September 2026. WWD specified "the fall," and the website narrows it to September. No opening date beyond the month has been confirmed. arturkirsh.com

Neither Kirsh nor Boyds has publicly detailed the salon's size, services, or pricing. What is confirmed is the address, the floor, the month, and the two people behind it — a stylist who cuts the hair of some of the most photographed women in fashion and entertainment, and a retailer whose family has been selling clothes in Philadelphia for four generations.