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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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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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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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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
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For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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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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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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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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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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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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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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I was a bit of a rebel.
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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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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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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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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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To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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