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Rip Vidal Sassoon – a life in photos

by | 9th, May 2012

RIP Vidal Sassoon, the world’s most famous hairdresser. He was 84. He was, was he not, head and shoulder above all other hairdressers. As the man who was worth a few bob told it:

“When I first came into hair, women were coming in and you’d place a hat on their hair and you’d dress their hair around it.”

Bald men can dream that such a style will one in vogue for both sexes…

“We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.”

Like you see in Crufts. But much, much, much more expensive…

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Vidal Sassoon, noted London hair stylist, wields the scissors on actress Mia Farrow?s hair in what may turn out to be one of history?s most expensive haircuts in Los Angeles, Aug. 14, 1967. Because Mia is supposed to have a Sassoon-styled cut in a new movie she?s about to make, Sassoon was flown to Hollywood to make it an authentic one. The producer is paying air fare and all expenses for Sassoon and his wife with total cost estimated at $5,000. The movie, ?Rosemary?s Baby,? begins with location shooting in New York next week. (AP Photo)



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