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Documentary Vidal Sassoon provides a brief look at th style icon, but ultimately lacks depth

Vidal Sassoon

Documentary provides a brief look at th style icon, but ultimately lacks depth

20 Apr 2011

Some bold claims are made about the subject of this documentary, the hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, in the opening sequence alone. ‘It’s impossible to overestimate his importance,’ declares one off-screen voice, while he’s also compared to Ali, Einstein and…

Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon

The Life and Times of a Style Icon

1 Sep 2010

(Macmillan) Vidal Sassoon was once called ‘the Chanel of hair’ by his friend Mary Quant. While she was upping skirt lengths during the 60s, he was busy revolutionising attitudes to hair. He thought back combing, hairspraying and spaceman-helmet…

Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon

The style icon talks to Claire Sawers about his life and book

17 Aug 2010

At the height of his celebrity, in the peak of his playboy yachts-and-champagne years, Vidal Sassoon was aboard a boat in Capri, where he was spending the summer. Bobbing in the bay, surrounded by friends, Sassoon looked over at an English boy who was a…

Further Edinburgh Book Festival highlights 2010

Further Edinburgh Book Festival highlights 2010

15 Jul 2010

In addition to events featuring Will Self, Heather Brooke and youth fiction-writers Tohby Riddle, John Green, Meg Rosoff, Cathy Cassidy there are plenty more highlights in the Edinburgh Book Festival programme.

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