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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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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Hairdresser
London
England
Never
Worked
Color
Perms
Art
Perm
Form
Hairdressing
Change
Geometric
Without
Settings
Done
Setting
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Nine

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