A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
“The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
