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Vidal: The Autobiography
Themost famous hairdresser in theworld tells hisfascinating lifestory
Vidal Sassoon's extraordinary life has taken him from an impoverished childhood to global fame as thefather of modern hairdressing, whoseslick sharp cutting took the fashion world by storm. His memoirbegins withsurprising and often moving stories of his early life—his time at the Spanish & Portuguese ...more
Vidal Sassoon's extraordinary life has taken him from an impoverished childhood to global fame as thefather of modern hairdressing, whoseslick sharp cutting took the fashion world by storm. His memoirbegins withsurprising and often moving stories of his early life—his time at the Spanish & Portuguese ...more
Hardcover
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360 pages
Published
February 24th 2011
by Pan Macmillan
(first published August 20th 2010)
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Vidal Sassoon has always been an inspiration to me as both an architectural hairdresser and a business man with keen instincts. After seeing Michael Gordon's documentary about his life and work I decided to read this autobiography to learn a bit more about the man behind the hair, in his own words. This book takes you from his childhood spent in a Jewish orphanage to his first gig as a reluctant shampoo boy. It focuses on the swinging 60's when he made his mark on London's Bond Street by liberat
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This was an easy read with some interesting history of hairdressing and the evolution of the hairdressing business. Sassoon includes important world events and personal events from his life and weaves them into his story nicely to give you a sense of what was going on at the time. However, I found a large part of the book to be about name dropping of what celebrity he dined with, who he met at a party or hung around with, and for me this was the least interesting part of the book. At times this
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This was an amazing book!!! I love his motivation!!! He was such a charming person. Hard work truly pays off.
Very consumed with himself but if you skim over all the celebrity stuff, pretty interesting rags to riches story. It was interesting how hair industry that we take so for granted these days evolved from the 1940's on.
Very interesting book, He really worked his way to fame and fortune, so many salons and products.
A little more about hairdressing and the 5 point cut discovered.
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