Vidal Sassoon
Vidal Sassoon
Vidal Sassoon, CBEwas a British and American hairstylist, businessman, and philanthropist. He was noted for creating a simple, close-cut geometric hair style called the Bob cut, worn by famous fashion designers like Mary Quant and film stars such as Mia Farrow, Goldie Hawn, Cameron Diaz, Natasha Kinski and Helen Mirren...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth17 January 1928
mother winning
You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
mother father holes
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
football morality obligation
Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
art color years
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.
born
I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
proud might chairs
I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
views said point-of-view
From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
looks ifs
If you don't look good, we don't look good.
people giving advice
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.
mother would-be premonition
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
opportunity architect has-beens
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.
girl cutting opportunity
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.
soccer sports kids
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
morning night bruises
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.'