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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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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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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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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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Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
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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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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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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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Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
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A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
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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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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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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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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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You must always do what you feel is right.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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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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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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