Tributes have flowed in for celebrity and revolutionary hairstylist, Vidal Sassoon – whose 1960s wash-and-wear cuts allowed women to be freed from hairspray.
Vidal Sassoon has died aged 84. The celebrity hairstylist – whose 1960s wash-and-wear cuts allowed women to be freed from hairspray – passed away at his home in Los Angeles earlier this week.
Los Angeles police spokesman Kevin Mailberger revealed officers went to Vidal’s house in Mulholland Drive this morning where it was determined he had died of ”apparent natural causes”. He said in a statement, ”It was of apparent natural causes and there is no crime scene. When the officers arrived there were family members at the residence.” As well as being known for his trademark easy-maintenance wash-and-wear haircuts, the London-born stylist also had a number of shampoo and styling products bearing his name, with the slogan, ”If you don’t look good, we don’t look good.”
Vidal – who was reported last year to have been suffering from leukemia – earned international fame with his groundbreaking hairstyles in the 1950s including the ”bob”, and his scissors led to the end of the beehive and bouffant hair style in the decade. The fashion icon opened his first salon in London in 1954 and later went on to open a New York salon in 1973. He previously said: ”When I first came into hair, women were coming in and you’d place a hat on their hair and you’d dress their hair around it. We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.”
Miley Cyrus is among the stars to have paid tribute to Vidal Sassoon. A number of famous faces and fellow stylists have hailed his revolutionary ways.
Miley tweeted: ”RIP Vidal Sassoon. You are forever fabulous.”
Model Erin O’Connor hailed Vidal as an ”inspiration” in her tribute. She wrote: ”RIP Vidal Sassoon. Inspired so many, myself included.”
Meanwhile, celebrity hairdresser Nicky Clarke praised Vidal for his ”drive of modernism” and overhaul of women’s hairstyling. He said on ‘Daybreak’, ”He was part of that drive of modernism. He was very, very interested in modernism of all sorts…he just introduced all of that into hair. And at the same time he probably freed women of that weekly ritual of having their hair backcombed and being under a dryer. ‘It depicted a whole new look of that time.”
