It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
If you don't look good, we don't look good.
I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
I was a bit of a rebel.
It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
I'm a great jazz fan.
From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
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