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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
Vidal Sassoon
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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Hairdresser
London
England
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Hair
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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If you look good, we look good.
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Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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