Vidal Sassoon died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.
Famous for creating iconic, modish hair styles during the Swinging Sixties and developing a hugely successful line of hair products in the 70s and beyond, Sassoon was a pioneer in hitching his star to pop culture as well as influencing it. From Carnaby Street to discotheques in Queens to those little bottles you get in hotel bathrooms, Sassoon’s mission was to make the world look good, because “if you don’t look good, we don’t look good.”
As in couture, the cut is the most important element… haircutting simply means design and this feeling for design must come from within.” Vidal Sassoon
Here’s Sassoon on an episode of What’s My Line from 1967.