3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon It was my mother’s idea. Her feeling was that I didn’t have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon 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. There’s no question about it.
3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we’re sure of.
3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon 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 to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.