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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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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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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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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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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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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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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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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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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 just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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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 is another name for sex.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
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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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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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