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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

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
Beginning
Born
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Depression

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If you look good, we look good.
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When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
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If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
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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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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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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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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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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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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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It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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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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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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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
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To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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