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Vidal Sassoon is the ultimate hairdressing legend and he will go down in history as ‘the man who changed the world with a pair of scissors’.

Vidal Sassoon died on the 9th May in his home in Los Angeles but will not be forgotten…he will remain one of the best-known hairdressers of all time.

Not only was he a hairdresser but  also an artist, inventor and inspiration to many other hairdressers. ‘If you don’t look good… We don’t look good‘ became Vidal’s mantra for college students and salons all over the world.

Vidal Sassoon opened his very first salon in 1954 in London and is best known for his geometric and asymmetrical cuts which brought an end to the 1950′s bouffant styles that were extremely trendy back in those days. His new styles and trends allowed women to be freed from the heavy beehive hairstyles and made short cuts acceptable to wear. Vidal said “Women were going to work and assuming their own power. They didn’t have time to sit under the dryer. My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.” 

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The British fashion designer, Mary Quant, who popularised the mini-skirt in the swinging sixties, was one of his best-known clients. Quant called Sassoon the “Chanel of hair”.

Denman International is deeply grateful to Vidal Sassoon for changing the architecture of hairdressing and blow-styling forever. It was Sassoon who put Denman brush on the map globally. Vidal Sassoon insisted on using a Denman brush to blow-dry the bob. The 5-row, 7-row and 9-row Denman brushes with the closely-set pins were the only tools he used to sculpt those sleek smooth hairstyles. To this day, all stylists training at the Vidal Sassoon Academies must use Denman brushes and all of his salons across the globe exclusively use Denman.

Please see below some Tributes that were paid to Vidal Sassoon on Twitter. He will be deeply missed by everyone in the hairdressing industry.