It would be easy to miss stylist Alessandro Lisi’s disarmingly low-key hair parlor, known simply as Area 6, if you didn’t know it was there—and that’s exactly the point. “It’s not your typical [Milanese] salon,” says Lisi with a laugh. “It’s not what you’d call posh.” To the contrary, everything about his tiny anti-salon, tucked away on the Corso Concordia, seems designed to put you at ease. There are two mismatched shabby-chic dressers against the wall, one long wooden table for cuts and color, and what appears to be a sequin-embroidered Christmas ornament in the shape of a rooster hanging in the corner. Lisi’s younger sister, the lovely and charming Francesca, operates the front desk. And then, of course, there’s Lisi himself. Once the assistant to legends Julian d’Ys,Didier Malige, and Eugene Souleiman, the 36-year-old hairstylist is now on the speed dial of a mind-blowing assortment of fashion editors, actresses, and Milanese cool girls. This being Fashion Week, he has been dashing between house calls and salon appointments. And yet he seems blissfully unfazed by all the commotion, chatting easily about his favorite Leonor Greyl shampoo and issuing Lisi-isms upon occasion. (All handbags, for instance, are regularly swept off the floor and onto a counter upon command. “I’m superstitious,” he says sheepishly. “It’s bad luck.”) Best of all, there’s his ability to deliver the kind of blowout that makes you feel, well, like you in 30 minutes flat—a feat we’d call priceless.