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Vidal Sassoon

July 2022

  • OM Archive April 21 1985

    From the Observer archive
    Vidal Sassoon on the artform that is hairdressing, 1985

    The scissors legend talked to Sally Brampton while Hamiltons gallery displayed a retrospective exhibition of his work. By Chris Hall

May 2020

  • Harry Kaufman and Jules Konopinski, two of the last surviving members of the 43 Group. London, UK

    The British Jews who fought postwar fascism on London's streets

    ‘43 Group’ battled rightwing thugs who continued to torment them even after defeat of the Nazi regime

January 2018

  • Hairdresser’s Journal’s 2016 Afro Hairdresser of the Year Hair - Robert Eaton and Karla Ancliffe-Smith, Russell Eaton Salons Make up - Lucy flower Styling - Desiree Lederer

    From beehive to mohawk: the hairdos that topped off 50 years of fashion

    A new exhibition looks at hairstyles though the decades

October 2017

  • Vidal Sassoon, October 1970. GNM Archive ref: GUA/6/9/1/3/S box 1

    From the Guardian archive
    Hair, there, and everywhere: Vidal Sassoon interview - fashion archive, 1970

    7 October 1970 Sassoon seems to have set himself up in America to take the country’s mind off its problems - ‘Fashion is a vital thing,’ he says

October 2014

  • Composite for power fashion

    From Twiggy to Germaine Greer: eight classic images of powerful women

    The Design Museum’s new exhibition, Women Fashion Power, about the way influential women wear clothes opens on Wednesday. Here, from Twiggy in a trouser suit to the high-shine shoulderpads of Dynasty, eight women write about the most eye-catching looks in the show

February 2013

  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    Why Felicity Green, Fleet Street's first lady, quit the Mirror board

    Roy Greenslade

    Roy Greenslade salutes the style icon who, at 86, continues to offer her wisdom on fashion and journalism

December 2012

  • Mary Quant and Vidal Sassoon, 1964

    Obituaries of 2012
    Vidal Sassoon remembered by Mary Quant

  • Observer New Review Obituaries

    Obituaries of 2012
    Obituaries of 2012 – in pictures

May 2012

  • Yvonne Roberts

    Vidal, I adored you – but you were hard work

    Yvonne Roberts
  • Vidal Sassoon

    Fashion Statement newsletter
    Fashion statement: Vidal Sassoon, the Met Gala and Brad Pitt as the face of Chanel Nº 5

  • Vidal Sassoon cuts Mia Farrow's hair

    Vidal Sassoon discusses his life and career - audio interview

  • Bim Adewunmi

    Vidal Sassoon and the politics of hair

    Bim Adewunmi

  • Fashion blog
    Life before Vidal Sassoon meant a weekly trip to the salon (and not a hair out of place)

  • Vidal Sassoon - a life of style in pictures

  • Vidal Sassoon dies at Los Angeles home aged 84

  • Vidal Sassoon obituary

September 2011

  • Vidal Sassoon

    This much I know
    Vidal Sassoon: this much I know

    The legendary hair stylist on fashion, fidelity and fighting Fascists

June 2011

  • Interview by Laura Barnett

    Another view
    Another view on Vidal Sassoon: the Movie

    Interview by Laura Barnett

    This documentary about the revolutionary Vidal Sassoon struck a chord with hairdresser Mark Coray

May 2011

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