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Vidal Sassoon’s mother made him become a hairdresser after telling him as a young boy he wasn’t talented enough to pursue his dream of becoming a professional soccer player.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Vidal Sassoon’s mother forced him into become a hairdresser.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 83-year-old crimper – who is known for creating some of the most iconic styles of the 60s – explained while when he was a teenager he wanted to become a professional soccer player, his mother told him he wasn’t good enough at sport and enlisted his services to a hair salon in London’s East End.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said: “I said I wanted to be a footballer but she said I wasn’t good enough so I should forget it. She told me that she’d had a premonition that cutting hair was the job for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“She was a great lady. Strong. She dragged me, not by the hand but by the elbow – no escape – to a salon in the East End run by Adolph ‘The Professor’ Cohen. He was a crazy disciplinarian. I had to come in with pressed trousers, clean shoes, my nails spotless.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Vidal also admitted as soon as he cut three foot off screen legend Nancy Kwan’s hair – transforming her locks into a chic bob – he had a gut feeling the style would take the world by storm.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added to The Scotsman newspaper: “I remember after cutting Nancy Kwan’s hair I called photographer Terence Donovan and I asked him what he was doing. It went everywhere, that bob. It just went everywhere. I just knew. I just knew that was the bob.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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