Vidal Sassoon, hairstylist for the 1960s

Vidal Sassoon (1928-2012) was a British hairdresser who made hairstyling history in the 1960s by freeing women from beehive hairdos and hot rollers.

He opened his first salon in 1954, when hair was high and heavy, set on rollers, then teased (backcombed) and sprayed into place. In the 1960s, Sassoon shocked the fashion world with his geometric cuts which required little styling and fell into place perfectly with little effort on the part of the wearer.

The styles were perfect for the fledgling women's liberation movement. Allure magazine editor-in-chief Linda Wells said, "His timing was perfect. As women's hair was liberated, so were their lives."

Sassoon changed the world of hairstyling and beauty and became the most famous hairdresser in history.

He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s to advance his line of hairstyling products and made the city his home. He sold his business interests in the 1980s to become a philanthropist.

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Richard Neutra's Singleton House

I recently ran across an extremely interesting Architectural Digest article which chronicles the restoration of Richard Neutra's 1950s Singleton House in Bel Air by the late hair stylist Vidal Sassoon and his wife Ronnie.

When the couple found the 4700 square foot house, which had sat unoccupied for two years, it was in such poor condition that a section of the roof collapsed two weeks after closing. A couple of months later, part of the property slid into a neighbor's yard. However, Ronnie was determined to restore the house. She began familiarizing herself with Neutra's work and studying pictures of the Singleton House taken by Julius Shulman when the home was new.

After considerable reconstruction, here are the results of the renovation.

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All photos from Architectural Digest

Vidal Sassoon died in May of this year. To get the whole story about the 2004 renovation, read the entire article, entitled "Vidal Sassoon's Modernist Retreat."