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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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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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Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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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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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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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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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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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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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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