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Vidal Sassoon
When Vidal Sassoon opened his first salon in London in 1954 his Bauhaus-influenced styles marked the end of the beehive and the bouffant – hairstyles curled and piled, to achieve height and shellacked into place. Sassoon, who has died aged 84 produced futuristic, creative cuts in the 1960s that fell into place every time, illustrating...
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There’s an edit of Vidal Sassoon The Movie currently on BBC iPlayer. It introduces a likeable man, now 83 and inextricably linked to 60s iconic hairstyles for Mia Farrow, Nancy Kwan in British Vogue and Grace Coddington in US Vogue. ‘Architecture of the face’ was at the forefront of Vidal Sassoon’s thinking, influenced by Bauhaus...
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