Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon

Hairstylist and entrepreneur · 1928–2012

One Sephardic or Mizrahi parent · EstablishedIsrael & the Diaspora Today

London-born hairstylist whose father was a Sephardi Jew from Salonika. His geometric cuts transformed hairdressing in the 1960s and grew into a worldwide business. He fought in Israel's 1948 war and founded the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism in Jerusalem.

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