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
art hair form
To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
beautiful cutting thinking
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.
advice way good-advice
Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
cutting thinking cities
I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.
passion expression self
Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
roots tragedy done
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.
eye looks wonderful
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.
goodbye teaching years
If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. 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.
home years profession
I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
mother years seven
My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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.
mother father home
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.
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.
girl nice clients
There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'