Vidal Sassoon
Vidal Sassoon CBE (born January 17, 1928 in London , † May 9, 2012 in Los Angeles , California ) was a British hairdresser and entrepreneur . In the 1960s he became world famous for developing the "geometric style" and reviving the bob .
Career
Coming from a poor family in the East End of London , Sassoon began working as a "shampoo boy" in London at the age of 14. Initially rather involuntarily, as he had to earn money for his family: At Cohen's , he mixed up shampoo in the back room. But he soon found pleasure in changing the women's hair. During the 1950s and 1960s, Sassoon became one of the most sought-after hairdressers in London. The acquaintance of the fashion designer Mary Quant , who is considered to be the inventor of the miniskirt, opened him up to a clientele of models , actresses and high society . He later opened a number of hair salons in the UK and USA under the name Vidal Sassoon and successfully marketed a hair care range named after him .
In his youth, Sassoon, who comes from an old Sephardic family, was part of the 43 Group, a militant anti-fascist organization that campaigned against the movement of Oswald Mosley after World War II , and participated on the Israeli side in the First Arab-Israeli War (1948) part. In later years he was involved in founding several foundations and the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1982).
In 2009, Sassoon was named Commander of the British Empire . He last lived in California and suffered from leukemia .
memoirs
- 2010: Vidal. The Autobiography. Macmillan, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-74689-3
Filmography
- 2010: Vidal Sassoon: The Movie , premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
Web links
- Vidal Sassoon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Vidal Sassoon in the catalog of the German National Library
- The company's website Sassoon (Engl.)
- “The courage of women is chronically underestimated” , interview with Gabriela Herpell in SZ-Magazin , No. 41/2010
- Vidal Sassoon dies at 84; hair stylist revolutionized the field , obituary by Mary Rourke in the Los Angeles Times , May 10, 2012
- Vidal Sassoon on eastlondonhistory.com, November 10, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Star hairdresser Vidal Sassoon is dead: Revolutionary with scissors , May 10, 2012, STERN.DE
- ↑ Ralf Sotscheck : Vidal Sassoon died: With the bob as a parade hairstyle . In: the daily newspaper . May 10, 2012
- ^ Website of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
- ^ The hairdresser , review of the autobiography 2010, Ulla Fölsing, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 24, 2011
- ^ Website for the film: Vidal Sassoon: The Movie
- ↑ Emily Ackerman: Vidal Sassoon: The Movie ( September 7, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ), February 8, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sassoon, Vidal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British barber and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 2012 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |