| Legendary hair stylist Vidal Sassoon dies aged 84
Celebrity hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, whose 1960s wash-and-wear cuts freed women from endless teasing and hairspray, has died. Married four times, Sassoon had four children with his second wife, Beverly, a sometime film and television actress, usually billed as Beverly Adams. He told the Chicago Tribune in 2004 that he was proud to have entered the field. , Sassoon had sold his name to manufacturers of hair care products. Procter d hair was typically curled, teased, piled high and shellacked into place. 'Work on their bone structure, the color, the cut, whatever, but when you've finished, you have an enormous sense of satisfaction. 'Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. His wash-and-wear styles included the bob, the Five-Point cut and the 'Greek Goddess,' a short, tousled perm - inspired by the 'Afro-marvelous-looking women' he said he saw in New York's Harlem. Sassoon opened his first salon in his native London in 1954 but said he didn't perfect his cut-is-everything approach until the mid-'60s. Once the wash-and-wear concept hit, though, it hit big and several women retired their curlers for good. 'Whether long or short, hair should be carved to a woman's bone structure,' he told the Los Angeles Times in 1967. Sassoon's hair-care mantra: 'To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. Sassoon's constant innovation saw him invent the famous geometric five point bob cut, before creating Mia Farrow's pixie for Rosemary's Baby, a look which in turn spawned copycat after copycat. He had moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s in search of a chemist to formulate his hair-care products and had decided to make the city his home. His shaped cuts were an integral part of the 'look' of Mary Quant, the superstar British fashion designer who popularized the miniskirt. Growing up poor in London, Sassoon said that when he was 14, his mother declared he was to become a hairdresser. 'I thought I'd be a soccer player but my mother said I should be a hairdresser, and, as often happens, the mother got her way,' he had said. 'My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous,' Sassoon said in 1993 in the Los Angeles Times.
In the same way Yves Saint Laurent gave women the pant, legendary British hairstylist Vidal Sassoon gave women the bob. 'While Mr. and U. The hairdresser also established Vidal Sassoon Academies to teach aspiring stylists how to envision haircuts based on a client's bone structure. In 2006 there were academies in England, the United States and Canada, with additional locations planned in Germany and China. 'Hairdressers are a wonderful breed,' he said. None of the children went into the family business. |
Friday, 11 May 2012
Legendary hair stylist Vidal Sassoon dies aged 84
