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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

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
Elbows
Kept
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Life
Shampoo

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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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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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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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