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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
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Hair
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I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.
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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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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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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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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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