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.
Vidal SassoonIt's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
Vidal SassoonThere were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
Vidal SassoonMy mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal SassoonIf you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.
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