“If I was going to be in hairdressing, I wanted to change things. I wanted to eliminate the superfluous and get down to the basic angles of cut and shape.”
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Vidal Sassoon
Vidal Sassoon was a British hairstylist and businessman. He was noted for repopularising a simple, close-cut geometric hairstyle called the five-point cut, worn by fashion designers including Mary Quant and film stars such as Mia Farrow, Goldie Hawn, Cameron Diaz, Nastassja Kinski and Helen Mirren.
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business · British hairstylist (1928–2012) · businessperson · autobiographer · fashion designer · hairdresser · also Vidal Sassoon, Sassoon
Born 17 January 1928 · Died 9 May 2012 · Q313550
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2026· 3 entries
“the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world”
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The Guardian: The cricket fiction of Sassoon and De Sélincourt isn’t in a ‘bucolic dreamworld’ | Letter
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2012· 6 entries
Glamour: Have You Missed Vidal Sassoon? Salon-Inspired Products Are Coming Back to Drugstores SOON!
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The New Yorker: Vidal Sassoon Was an Actual Person
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SheKnows: Legendary stylist Vidal Sassoon dies at 84
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Fox News: Vidal Sassoon, Hair Styling Icon, Dies
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Died 2012-05-09.
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Was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork, the album cover for the Beatles' Sgt
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2010· 1 entry
IndieWire: Phase 4 Acquires “Vidal Sassoon”
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2009· 1 entry
Sassoon was appointed CBE by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace
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2003· 1 entry
For allegedly neglecting the marketing of his brand in favour of the company's other hair product lines, such as Pantene; the parties reached a settlement the following year
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1992· 1 entry
Married designer Rhonda "Ronnie" Sassoon
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1983· 1 entry
Richardson-Vicks purchased the Los Angeles-based Vidal Sassoon Inc
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1982· 1 entry
He started the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, or SICSA, in 1982. Located at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, it is devoted to gathering information about antisemitism worldwide.
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1971· 1 entry
Promoted his 30-year-old second-in-command, artistic director Roger Thompson, to director of the Sassoon salon, explaining jocularly that, "Twenty-five years of schlepping behind a barber chair are enough
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1968· 1 entry
At a cost of $5,000, to create a unique pixie cut for Mia Farrow, who was to star in Rosemary's Baby
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1967· 1 entry
Married actress Beverly Adams, whom he met while filming Torture Garden (1967)
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1966· 1 entry
Inspired by 1920s film star Clara Bow's close-cropped hair, he created designs for Emanuel Ungaro
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1965· 1 entry
Opened his first New York City salon on Madison Avenue
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1964· 1 entry
Sassoon created a short, angular hairstyle cut on a horizontal plane that was the recreation of the classic "bob cut"
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1954· 1 entry
In London; singer-actress Georgia Brown, his friend and neighbour, claimed to be his first customer
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1948· 1 entry
At the age of 20, he joined the Palmach (which shortly afterwards was integrated into the Israel Defense Forces) and fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which began after Israel declared statehood
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1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-01-17.
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