I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
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… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share
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… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share
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.… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share
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… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share
To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share
It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share
My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share
Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share
