It was my mothers idea. Her feeling was that I didnt have the intelligence to pick a trade myself. – Vidal Sassoon
So I was shampooing at 14. But Ive always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. Theres no question about it. – 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. – Vidal Sassoon
Ill never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise – it had been a difficult night the night before – and a client said to me, Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face? And I said, Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin. – Vidal Sassoon