Pia’s house of style since 1963

PIA Passanisi celebrates 60 years of style in Fremantle.
Each Thursday, the ‘retired’ hairdresser chips in to help her daughters at the Hair & Barber Room at 128 High Street. The family business still operates out of the same building Pia completed her apprenticeship.
The 16-year-old Naples girl arrived in Fremantle in 1963. 
Unable to speak English, her first job was at a local sack-sewing factory before she completed her apprenticeship under the late John Galloway.
Pia has worked in and managed salons in Fremantle, Cockburn and Armadale.
Pia’s passion to make people look good also has rubbed off on daughters Lucia, Vanessa and Rosaria, who currently manage the ‘room’,
Located on the former Primpers and Salon Express site, Pia managed Primpers for 10 years before moving in the 1980s to Johnson Court where her daughters completed their training. They left in 1997 and moved back to where Pia started.
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