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To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

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
Art
Form
Sculpt
Scissors
Pursuit
Hair
Head

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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 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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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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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 me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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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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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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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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I'm a great jazz fan.
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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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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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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
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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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Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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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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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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