Vidal: The Autobiography

by Vidal Sassoon

Overview

The riveting life and times of a genuine fashion icon, repackaged for mass-market paperback

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509822539
Publisher:	Pan Publishing
Publication date:	02/11/2016
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	386
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Vidal Sassoon was born in London in 1928. He began his hairdressing career as an apprentice during the Second World War. Today, his name is still associated with the salons and the hairdressing schools he founded in the 1960s. He lives in London and Beverly Hills and in 2009 he was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgements xiii

Prologue 1

1 An East End Childhood 5

2 Professor Cohen 28

3 Private Sassoon 49

4 West End Boy 71

5 There's Something About Mary 94

6 Me and Mr Jones 126

7 Suddenly It Happened 143

8 Sassoonery Goes Stateside 159

9 Passing the Yankee Test 168

10 Movie Stars, Mia and Me 187

11 Crimpers' Academy 210

12 'If You Don't Look Good, We Don't Look Good' 237

13 Wash and Go 253

14 A Girl Called Ronnie 273

15 Meetings With Remarkable Men 291

16 Letting Go 308

17 A Bypass Round My Heart 315

18 Hairdressers in a Hurricane 325

19 A One-Man Salon on Capri 335

Index 351

Editorial Reviews

"Anyone who lived through the 1960s and wishes to be reminded of the decade's tumultuous changes or those who wish to see the Mad Men era from a London perspective, Sassoon's charming and heartfelt autobiography is a gentle but always enjoyable meander through a world shaking era."  —Jewish Chronicle

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