Vidal Sassoon, CBE

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• Sassoon was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.
• Vidal Sassoon, CBE (17 January 1928 – 9 May 2012) was a British hairdresser, businessman, and philanthropist. He is credited with creating a simple geometric, "Bauhaus-inspired" hair style, also called the wedge bob. Establishing himself in the US in 1965, he opened the first chain of worldwide hairstyling salons, complemented by a line of hair-treatment products that became an international brand.[1] His company's 1980s television commercials featured the popular tag line, "If you don't look good, we don't look good." Vidal Sassoon: The Movie, a documentary film about his life, was released in 2010.
• Sassoon was born in Hammersmith, London,[2] and lived in Shepherd's Bush. His parents were Sephardi Jews.[3] His mother, Betty (Bellin),[4] came from a family of immigrants from Spain,[3] and his father, Jack Sassoon, was from Thessaloniki, Greece. Sassoon had a younger brother, Ivor, who died from a heart attack at the age of 46.[5][dead link]
• His father left his family when Vidal was three years old.[6]
• Due to poverty as a single parent, his mother placed Sassoon and his younger brother in a Jewish orphanage, where they stayed for seven years[7] until he was 11 when his mother remarried.[8] His mother was only allowed to visit them once a month and was never allowed to take them out. He attended Essendine Road Primary School, a Christian school, before being evacuated due to WWII to Holt, Wiltshire. After his return to London he left school at the age of 14[citation needed] and worked as a messenger before starting a hairdressing apprenticeship. In his youth, he was also a football player.[8]
• At the age of 17, although having been too young to serve in World War II, he became the youngest member of the 43 Group, a Jewish veterans' underground organisation. It broke up what it considered Fascist meetings in East London.[9][10] The Daily Telegraph calls him an "anti-fascist warrior-hairdresser" whose aim was to prevent Sir Oswald Mosley's movement from spreading "messages of hatred" in the period following World War II.[9]
• In 1948, at the age of 20, he joined the Haganah (which shortly afterwards became the Israeli Defence Forces) and fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which began after Israel declared statehood.[10][11] During an interview, he described the year he spent training with the Israelis as "the best year of my life," and recalled how he felt: read more...
• Burial : Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend.

וידאל ששון

', מפקד (באנגלית: Vidal Sassoon, CBE;‏ 17 בינואר 1928 - 9 במאי 2012) היה מעצב שיער ואיש עסקים יהודי בריטי.

תוכן עניינים 1 ביוגרפיה 2 קריירה 3 תארים 4 קישורים חיצוניים ביוגרפיה ששון נולד למשפחה יהודית בלונדון, אביו היה ממוצא יווני ומשפחת אמו, יהודייה אוקראינית, הגיעה מקייב. אביו עזב את המשפחה כשווידאל היה בן 4 ואחיו היה בן שנתיים, ושנה לאחר מכן שלחה אותו אמו לבית יתומים יהודי, שם שהה שש שנים. לאחר שאמו נישאה בשנית, התאחדה המשפחה. הוא היה צעיר מכדי לשרת בצבא במלחמת העולם השנייה, אבל היה חבר ב"קבוצה 43", מיליציה יהודית שהתעמתה עם ארגונים פשיסטים בלונדון. בשנת 1948 הגיע לישראל במסגרת המח"ל, ולחם בחזית הנגב במלחמת העצמאות.

בשנת 1982 ייסד באוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים את המרכז הבינלאומי לחקר האנטישמיות.

הוא נישא לבוורלי אדמס (אנ'), שחקנית קנדית, בשנת 1967. לזוג ארבעה ילדים, בהם בן אחד מאומץ. הזוג התגרש בשנת 1986. הוא נישא מחדש לרוני, מנהלת בפרוקטר אנד גמבל. בתו קטיה ששון הייתה שחקנית, ומתה ממנת יתר בשנת 2002.

קריירה ב-1954 פתח ששון מספרה בלונדון. הוא זכה לתהילה כספר בלונדון של שנות ה-60. ב-1968 עיצב את שיערה של מיה פארו לסרט תינוקה של רוזמרי. עיצובי השיער שלו כבשו את העולם והוא הקים רשת בינלאומית של מספרות, ושל בתי ספר לספרות. ב-1975 עבר ללוס אנג'לס, קליפורניה ושם התגורר עד מותו. את קו מוצרי הטיפוח על שמו, מכר ב-1982 לחברה שנרכשה מאוחר יותר על ידי פרוקטר אנד גמבל, אך המשיך לקבל תמלוגים. ב-2003 תבע את פרוקטר אנד גמבל, בטענה שהחברה מחסלת את המותג שלו. ב-2004 הגיעו שני הצדדים לפשרה.

תארים בשנת 2009 קיבל ששון תואר "מפקד" במסדר האימפריה הבריטית לכבוד יום הולדתו.

על שמו נקרא "המרכז הבינלאומי לחקר האנטישמיות ע"ש וידאל ששון".

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של וידאל ששון וידאל ששון הסרט Vidal Sassoon: the man who made English hairstyling great איתמר זהר, וידאל ששון, מעצב השיער של הוליווד, מביט לאחור בסיפוק , עכבר העיר, 11 באוגוסט 2010 https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%93%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%A9...

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• Sassoon was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.
• Vidal Sassoon, CBE (17 January 1928 – 9 May 2012) was a British hairdresser, businessman, and philanthropist. He is credited with creating a simple geometric, "Bauhaus-inspired" hair style, also called the wedge bob. Establishing himself in the US in 1965, he opened the first chain of worldwide hairstyling salons, complemented by a line of hair-treatment products that became an international brand.[1] His company's 1980s television commercials featured the popular tag line, "If you don't look good, we don't look good." Vidal Sassoon: The Movie, a documentary film about his life, was released in 2010.
• Sassoon was born in Hammersmith, London,[2] and lived in Shepherd's Bush. His parents were Sephardi Jews.[3] His mother, Betty (Bellin),[4] came from a family of immigrants from Spain,[3] and his father, Jack Sassoon, was from Thessaloniki, Greece. Sassoon had a younger brother, Ivor, who died from a heart attack at the age of 46.[5][dead link]
• His father left his family when Vidal was three years old.[6]
• Due to poverty as a single parent, his mother placed Sassoon and his younger brother in a Jewish orphanage, where they stayed for seven years[7] until he was 11 when his mother remarried.[8] His mother was only allowed to visit them once a month and was never allowed to take them out. He attended Essendine Road Primary School, a Christian school, before being evacuated due to WWII to Holt, Wiltshire. After his return to London he left school at the age of 14[citation needed] and worked as a messenger before starting a hairdressing apprenticeship. In his youth, he was also a football player.[8]
• At the age of 17, although having been too young to serve in World War II, he became the youngest member of the 43 Group, a Jewish veterans' underground organisation. It broke up what it considered Fascist meetings in East London.[9][10] The Daily Telegraph calls him an "anti-fascist warrior-hairdresser" whose aim was to prevent Sir Oswald Mosley's movement from spreading "messages of hatred" in the period following World War II.[9]
• In 1948, at the age of 20, he joined the Haganah (which shortly afterwards became the Israeli Defence Forces) and fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which began after Israel declared statehood.[10][11] During an interview, he described the year he spent training with the Israelis as "the best year of my life," and recalled how he felt: read more...
• Burial : Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend.