Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon (17January 1928 9May 2012) was a British hairstylist and businessman. He was noted for repopularising a simple, close-cut geometric hairstyle called the five-pointcut, worn by fashion designers including Mary Quant and film stars such as Mia Farrow, Goldie Hawn, Cameron Diaz, and Helen Mirren.

His early life was one of extreme poverty, with sevenyears of his childhood spent in an orphanage. He quit school at age14, soon holding various jobs in London during World WarII. Although he hoped to become a professional football player, he became an apprentice hairdresser at the suggestion of his mother.

After developing a reputation for his innovative cuts, he moved to LosAngeles in the early1970s, where he opened the first worldwide chain of hairstyling salons, complemented by a line of hair-treatmentproducts.

He sold his business interests in the early1980s and began funding Israeli think tanks. In2009, Sassoon was appointedCBE by Queen ElizabethII at Buckingham Palace. ''Vidal Sassoon: The Movie'', a documentary film about his life, was released in2010. In2012, he was among the British cultural icons selected by artist SirPeter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork, the album cover for theBeatles' ''Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'', to celebrate the British cultural figures of the prior sixdecades. Provided by Wikipedia