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Vidal Sassoon
born: 17-01-1928
birth place: London,UK
Born in the East End of London, Vidal Sassoon had no intention of becoming a hairdresser, preferring to fight Osmond Mosley’s fascists, who were once again stirring up racial hatred on the post-war streets of London.
He grew up in a small London flat, until his father left home. The 5 year old Vidal and his little brother survived 6 years in a Jewish orphanage, before their mother remarried and could afford to care for them again. When he was 14, she dreamed one night of Vidal in a barber shop, and she immediately took the boy to Cohen’s Beauty & Barber Shop, and apprenticed him to Cohen.
If he must be a hairdresser, Vidal decided he would have to be the best, so he went religiously to the theatre to tune his ear and voice to "posh" English, and found work in the West End. Still of school age, Vidal would toil over the finest heads of hair by day and roam about the streets in an anti-Mosley gang at night. The youngest among the fighters, he was know as a plucky and reliable kid.
When America and Britain partitioned Palestine and established the state of Israel in 1948, Vidal went to fight for the Jewish homeland. A few years after his return he set up his first salon – a tiny room on the third floor above Bond Street.
For nine years he experimented with new cuts and techniques, searching for simple, elegant styles. By 1963, he had pioneered the Bob and Five-Point Cut, which made him famous and gave him the title "the founder of modern hairdressing".
His went on to give his name to a chain of hair salons in the UK and the United States, and his range of haircare products continue to enjoy massive sales worldwide.
born: 17-01-1928
birth place: London,UK
Born in the East End of London, Vidal Sassoon had no intention of becoming a hairdresser, preferring to fight Osmond Mosley’s fascists, who were once again stirring up racial hatred on the post-war streets of London.
He grew up in a small London flat, until his father left home. The 5 year old Vidal and his little brother survived 6 years in a Jewish orphanage, before their mother remarried and could afford to care for them again. When he was 14, she dreamed one night of Vidal in a barber shop, and she immediately took the boy to Cohen’s Beauty & Barber Shop, and apprenticed him to Cohen.
If he must be a hairdresser, Vidal decided he would have to be the best, so he went religiously to the theatre to tune his ear and voice to "posh" English, and found work in the West End. Still of school age, Vidal would toil over the finest heads of hair by day and roam about the streets in an anti-Mosley gang at night. The youngest among the fighters, he was know as a plucky and reliable kid.
When America and Britain partitioned Palestine and established the state of Israel in 1948, Vidal went to fight for the Jewish homeland. A few years after his return he set up his first salon – a tiny room on the third floor above Bond Street.
For nine years he experimented with new cuts and techniques, searching for simple, elegant styles. By 1963, he had pioneered the Bob and Five-Point Cut, which made him famous and gave him the title "the founder of modern hairdressing".
His went on to give his name to a chain of hair salons in the UK and the United States, and his range of haircare products continue to enjoy massive sales worldwide.
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