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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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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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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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As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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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'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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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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For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.
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It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
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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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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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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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Hair is another name for sex.
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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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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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