編者按：維達·沙宣（Vidal Sassoon），英國籍以色列裔人，是全球聞名的發(fā)型設(shè)計大師、實業(yè)家。同時他的名字也作為寶潔旗下美發(fā)產(chǎn)品的品牌名稱。1950年，維達·沙宣聲名日噪，并屢獲殊榮，成為發(fā)型藝術(shù)家協(xié)會的資深會員。四年后，首間沙宣發(fā)廊在倫敦邦德街108號開業(yè)了。維達·沙宣在這里創(chuàng)造了他全新的剪發(fā)藝。20世紀60年代是一個充滿刺激與創(chuàng)造力的時代。當時的倫敦，出現(xiàn)了如披頭士樂隊(Beatles，又稱甲殼蟲樂隊)和設(shè)計師瑪麗·關(guān)等格調(diào)獨特、作風自由開放的人物。維達·沙宣亦是其中的佼佼者，為那個年代的創(chuàng)造突破，提供了無限創(chuàng)意。1963年，瑪麗·關(guān)邀請維達·沙宣為她的模特兒設(shè)計全新發(fā)型，要求既不能掩蓋服裝的優(yōu)點，又要設(shè)計獨特、充滿時代感。結(jié)果維達·沙宣根據(jù)個別模特兒的不同輪廓，配合幾何形狀的線條，設(shè)計出造型簡單別致的沙宣短發(fā)(Sassoon Bob)，這個大膽創(chuàng)新的發(fā)型設(shè)計，轟動了時裝界和傳媒，女士們蜂擁而至邦德街的沙宣發(fā)廊。British-born celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon has died at his home in Los Angeles, aged 84.
A police spokesman said officers went to the stylist's home on Wednesday morning to confirm the death. He said Sassoon had died of natural causes.
Sassoon is regarded as one of the best-known hairdressers of his generation.
He is credited with revolutionising haircuts in the 1960s, and developed a popular line of hair products under his name.
The creator of the "bob" hairstyle, he is best known for his short, geometric cuts, ending the bouffant styles trendy in the 1950s.
One of his best-known clients was Mary Quant, the famous British fashion designer who popularised the mini-skirt. Quant called Sassoon the "Chanel of hair".
In a tribute, fellow British coiffeur and friend Nicky Clarke said he was "hugely significant - the most iconic of hairdressers".
Before Sassoon's arrival on the scene, he said, "people were in rollers, backcombing their hair. What he bought was a different kind of hairdressing.
"It was all about modernism - in some ways he defined the 60s. He helped to put Britain on the map."
Clarke said Sassoon was a "humble person" who "loved his craft", and would be greatly missed.
Mary Quant called Sassoon the "Chanel of hair"
Four marriages
Vidal Sassoon was born to Jewish parents in West London in 1928.
His father left when he was five, and his mother had to put him and his brother into a Jewish orphanage because she could not afford to keep them.
In 1948, at the age of 20, he travelled to Israel to fight in the Arab-Israeli War.
On his return to Britain, he began working for the famous hairstylist Teasy Weasy Raymond, in Mayfair, before opening his own salon in 1954.
"My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous," Sassoon said in 1993 in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
"Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer anymore."
He also campaigned against anti-Semitism, establishing the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the 1980s.
His private life attracted as much publicity as his business success. He divorced three times and married his fourth wife in 1992.
Analysis
Alastair Leithead
BBC News, Los Angeles
His creative cuts helped dress a cultural revolution in the 1960s, and his products have had a place in the world's bathroom cabinets for decades.
Vidal Sassoon opened his first salon in London in 1954 and gave what he called "geometry" and "architectural shapes" to hair.
His styles freed women's fashion from the high and heavy "beehive" into cuts that were easy to manage.
The wash-and-wear styles like the bob cut fitted in with the emerging feminist movement.
"Women were going to work and assuming their own power," he famously said. "They didn't have time to sit under the dryer."
A police spokesman said officers went to the stylist's home on Wednesday morning to confirm the death. He said Sassoon had died of natural causes.
Sassoon is regarded as one of the best-known hairdressers of his generation.
He is credited with revolutionising haircuts in the 1960s, and developed a popular line of hair products under his name.
The creator of the "bob" hairstyle, he is best known for his short, geometric cuts, ending the bouffant styles trendy in the 1950s.
One of his best-known clients was Mary Quant, the famous British fashion designer who popularised the mini-skirt. Quant called Sassoon the "Chanel of hair".
In a tribute, fellow British coiffeur and friend Nicky Clarke said he was "hugely significant - the most iconic of hairdressers".
Before Sassoon's arrival on the scene, he said, "people were in rollers, backcombing their hair. What he bought was a different kind of hairdressing.
"It was all about modernism - in some ways he defined the 60s. He helped to put Britain on the map."
Clarke said Sassoon was a "humble person" who "loved his craft", and would be greatly missed.
Mary Quant called Sassoon the "Chanel of hair"
Four marriages
Vidal Sassoon was born to Jewish parents in West London in 1928.
His father left when he was five, and his mother had to put him and his brother into a Jewish orphanage because she could not afford to keep them.
In 1948, at the age of 20, he travelled to Israel to fight in the Arab-Israeli War.
On his return to Britain, he began working for the famous hairstylist Teasy Weasy Raymond, in Mayfair, before opening his own salon in 1954.
"My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous," Sassoon said in 1993 in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
"Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer anymore."
He also campaigned against anti-Semitism, establishing the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the 1980s.
His private life attracted as much publicity as his business success. He divorced three times and married his fourth wife in 1992.
Analysis
Alastair Leithead
BBC News, Los Angeles
His creative cuts helped dress a cultural revolution in the 1960s, and his products have had a place in the world's bathroom cabinets for decades.
Vidal Sassoon opened his first salon in London in 1954 and gave what he called "geometry" and "architectural shapes" to hair.
His styles freed women's fashion from the high and heavy "beehive" into cuts that were easy to manage.
The wash-and-wear styles like the bob cut fitted in with the emerging feminist movement.
"Women were going to work and assuming their own power," he famously said. "They didn't have time to sit under the dryer."