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If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

Vidal Sassoon

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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
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Fashion Designer
Hairdresser
London
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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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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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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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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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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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Hair is another name for sex.
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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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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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Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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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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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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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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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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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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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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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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