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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
Jazz
Fans
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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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As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.
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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
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For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
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Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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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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Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
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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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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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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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Hair is another name for sex.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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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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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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