Top 59 Quotes About Vidal Sassoon
#1. Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.
John Paul DeJoria
#2. A good trick as you get older is to get a thick pair of glasses that have a dark frame. Everything else can droop and slide but that pair of dark glasses stays sharp and crisp. Look at Cary Grant. Look at Vidal Sassoon.
Tom Ford
#3. I got into hairdressing and moved from Dorset to London, where I got an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. This was around '83 or '84. I was working on South Molton Street, which was then the epicenter of all the shops. It was like a catwalk. So I did my apprenticeship there, but I wasn't successful.
Guido Palau
#4. As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.
Mary Quant
#5. In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
Michael Caine
#6. Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.
John Paul DeJoria
#7. 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.'
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#8. 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.
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#9. Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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#10. To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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#11. 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.
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#12. As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.
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#13. You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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#15. 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.
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#17. The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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#18. 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.
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#19. You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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#20. Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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#21. Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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#22. I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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#24. I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.
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#26. My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.
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#27. For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
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#28. I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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#29. From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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#30. I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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#31. I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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#32. My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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#33. 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.'
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#34. During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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#35. It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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#37. Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
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#41. Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#44. I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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.
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#47. I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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#48. My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
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#52. The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.
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#53. It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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#54. Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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#55. 'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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#56. 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.
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#57. If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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