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I was a bit of a rebel.

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
Rebel
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When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
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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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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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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 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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For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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