Vidal Sassoon

Movie Review: “Vidal Sassoon The Movie” What was initially an idea to shoot a short film as a tribute to his friend Vidal Sassoon, producer Michael Gordon instead ended up producing a 94- minute film of the legendary man. Titled Vidal Sassoon The Movie, the film’s springboard is a visual book of Sassoon’s life that Gordon is putting together for the cameras. As he goes through the various photographs to organize them, they prompt Sassoon’s story to unfold. ( Read Vidal Sassoon more… ) Interview: Vidal Sassoon Talks ‘Vidal Sassoon: The Movie’ Are you ready for some quality time with hair? Get ready for Vidal Sasson: The Movie, a documentary about (you guessed it!) the hairstylist Vidal Sassoon. If you’re like me, you’re wondering how the hell hair can be interesting enough to make a movie out of it… well it helps when you have a true to life rags to riches story of one of the first stylists who actually managed to change society with a pair of scissors. ( Read Vidal Sassoon more… ) Vidal Sassoon discusses his iconic pixie haircut LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Before Vidal Sassoon came along during the swinging ’60s, women’s hair was caught in a “Mad Men” world. “Women were going to the salon three or four times a week. They had big hair. They were sleeping in rollers,” says Craig Teper, director of the new biodoc “Vidal Sassoon: The Movie,” which opens February 11 in New York and February 18 in Los Angeles. The London-born hairdresser upended all of that. As the movie stylishly demonstrates, Sassoon can rightly be called a design revolutionary. The short, geometric hairstyles he invented were so low-maintenance as to be genuinely liberating. ( Read Vidal Sassoon more… ) Vidal Sassoon meet the man who changed the world with a pair of scissors Before the dawn of Sally Hershberger’s $800 haircut, before the term “celebrity stylist” preceded names like Frédéric Fekkai, Serge Normant, and Orlando Pita, there was Vidal Sassoon. The English haircutter made his mark with a never-before-seen architectural style at a time when the only options were a tease and a set. “He’s undisputedly the hero of hairdressing—and has a remarkable life story,” says Bumble and Bumble founder Michael Gordon, who produced the new documentary, Vidal Sassoon The Movie , that’s debuting during New York fashion week. ( Read Vidal Sassoon more… ) Watching Vidal Sassoon: The Movie – Official Trailer – Online Youtube Movies Courtesy : The Huffington Post , Screen Crave , Reuters & Style

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