Vidal Sassoon revolutionized hairstyling in the 1960s. His
easy-to-maintain, precision cut bobs and geometric shapes modernized
women’s hair. Sassoon is credited with inventing the five-point haircut
to complement the bone structure of model and
Vogue creative director, Grace Coddington. He gave Mia Farrow her famous pixie cut for the 1968 film
Rosemary’s Baby, and his most famous cut at the time was the asymmetrical bob or
the Nancy Kwan, which he cut for the actress’s role in the 1963 comedy
The Wild Affair. “My whole work, beginning in the late 1950s, came from the
Bauhaus,” Sassoon explains in April’s
Architectural Digest.
“It was all about studying the bone structure of the face, to bring out
the character. Architects have always been my heroes,” he adds.
With his love of architecture, it makes sense that in 2004 for $6
million, Sassoon and wife Ronnie purchased the iconic Singleton House
designed by Richard Neutra. The home was originally commissioned in
1959 by industrialist Henry Singleton for its spectacular Bel Air
location atop Mulholland Drive with views of the Pacific, downtown, the
desert, and San Gabriel Mountains.
