VIDAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Product Description

Vidal Sassoon’s extraordinary life has taken him from an impoverished East End childhood to global fame. The father of modern hairdressing, his slick sharp cutting took the fashion world by storm and reinvented the hairdressers’ art. Before Vidal Sassoon, a trip to the hairdressers meant a shampoo and set or a stiffly lacquered up-do that would last a week – or more. After Vidal Sassoon, hair was sleek, smooth and very, very stylish. Along with his lifelong friend and partner in style, Mary Quant, who he first met in 1957 and who to this day sports a Sassoon-style geometric bob, he styled the 1960s. As memorable as the mini – be it car or skirt – he is one of the few people who can genuinely be described as iconic. His memoirs are as rich in anecdote as one might hope and full of surprising and often moving stories of his early life – his time at the Spanish & Portuguese Jewish Orphanage in Maida Vale, fighting Fascists in London’s East End and fighting in the army of the fledgling state of Israel in the late Forties. And then there’s the extraordinary career, during which he cut the hair of everyone who was anyone, launched salons all over the world, founded the hairdressing school that still bears his name and became a global brand, with Vidal Sassoon products on all our bathroom shelves.

About the Author

Vidal Sassoon was born in London in 1928. He began his hairdressing career as an apprentice during the Second World War. Today, his name is still associated with the salons and the hairdressing schools he founded in the 1960s. He lives in London and Beverley Hills and in 2009 he was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Description

Hardcover: 456 pages

Publisher: Macmillan (September 3, 2010)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0230746896

ISBN-13: 978-0230746893

Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds

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MODERN LIVING

 This Modern home in Greenwich, Connecticut. Architect is Ulrich Franzen. Some architects carry their mark into every home. Several of Franzen’s homes look like giant oceanliners steaming over the landscape. This 1992 home is on seven acres overlooking a lake.  The interior is spare and modern with concrete, granite and marble. The five-bedroom home also an elevator, an indoor pool, media, exercise and billiard rooms. Outside a granite terrace surrounds a Shoreline pool with cabana and faces an illuminated tennis court. There is also a two-bedroom guest cottage and ample garage. It is listed at $13 million.

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THE POWER OF YES

Prefiro ser eternamente uma sonhadora, viver de sonhos. Ainda que me chamem de louca ou inconcequente. Jamais, vou me conformar com o negativo. A vida e cheia de flores basta abrir os olhos e procura-las porque elas ja estao a sua espera. by Adriana Sassoon

Eckhart Tolle

1920 STYLE

“No elegance is possible without perfume.” Coco Chanel

EGO

What is????

It’s your “identity”, or who you think you are.It is the basis of all television, commercials, marketing, salesmanship, politics, economics, and just about everything else.

Freud’s thought: the structural model was first discussed in his 1920 essay “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” and was formalised and elaborated upon three years later in his “The Ego and the Id“. Freud’s proposal was influenced by the ambiguity of the term “unconscious” and its many conflicting uses.

FANTASY

“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly,”One must have sunshine, freedom,and a little flower.”
Hans Christian Andersen

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, and/orsetting. Many works within the genre take place in fictional worlds where magic is common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction in that it does not provide a logical (or pseudo logical) explanation for the scientifically impossible events that occur, though there is a great deal of overlap between the two (both are subgenres of speculative fiction).

In popular culture, the genre of fantasy is dominated by its medievalist form, especially since the worldwide success of The Lord of the Rings books by J. R. R. Tolkien. In its broadest sense however, fantasy comprises works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians, from ancient myths and legends to many recent works embraced by a wide audience today.

Fantasy is a vibrant area of academic study in a number of disciplines (English, cultural studies, comparative literature, history, medieval studies). Work in this area ranges widely, from the structuralist theory of Tzvetan Todorov, which emphasizes the fantastic as a liminal space, to work on the connections (political, historical, literary) between medievalism and popular culture.

Every woman has a place, in her heart there’s a space, and the world can’t erase her fantasies.
Take a ride in the sky, on our ship fantasy, all your dreams will come true, right away
And we will live together, our voices will ring forever, as one.

Every thought is a dream, rushing by in a stream, bringing life to The kingdom of doing.Take a ride in the sky, on our ship fantasy, all your dreams will come true, miles away.Our voices will ring together until the twelfth of never,we all, will live LOVE forever, as one.Come see victory, in the land called fantasy, loving life, a new decree, bring your mind to everlasting liberty!

THE POWER OF LOVE

Love is any of a number of emotions related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure (“I loved that meal”) to intense interpersonal attraction (“I love my wife”). This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.

As an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

COSMETICS

What’s so fab about eco-friendly makeup? Mineral makeup is made from naturally occurring minerals like iron oxides, mica powder and titanium dioxide. This means that the ingredients you are slathering on your face on a daily basis come straight from the earth, not from some chemist’s lab. Even better than liquid foundation that is usually sticky and messy, mineral eco-friendly makeup comes in an easy-to-apply powder which covers blemishes and other pesky skin problems flawlessly while still allowing it breathe. Using powder also means there are no nasty oils in your makeup, which is good news for chicks with extra sensitive skin. Mineral makeup is also less likely to clog your pores .