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
hair stylist
As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.
inspiration hair hair-stylist
I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
mean hair important
To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
cutting ideas hair
My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.
sex hair names
Hair is another name for sex.
hair elements architecture
For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
eye hair way
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.
art hair form
To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
believe consist duties equality loving religious
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
intelligence pick
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
regret selling company
My greatest regret is selling my company.
people crafts enough
Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
our-society realizing being-human
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.
father ran
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.