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Vidal Sassoon, CBE (17 January 1928 – 9 May 2012) was a British hairdresser, businessman, and philanthropist. He is credited with creating a simple geometric, "Bauhaus-inspired" hair style, also called the wedge bob. Establishing himself in the US in 1965, he opened the first chain of worldwide hairstyling salons, complemented by a line of hair-treatment products that became an international brand.〔Martin, Richard. ''Encyclopedia of Popular Culture'', St. James Press (2000) p.313〕 His company's 1980s television commercials featured the popular tag line, "If you don't look good, we don't look good." ''Vidal Sassoon: The Movie'', a documentary film about his life, was released in 2010. ==Early life== Sassoon was born in Hammersmith, London, and lived in Shepherd's Bush. His parents were Sephardic Jews. His mother, Betty (Bellin), came from a family of immigrants from Spain,〔 and his father, Jack Sassoon,〔 was from Thessaloniki, Greece. Sassoon had a younger brother, Ivor, who died from a heart attack at the age of 46.〔 〕 His father left his family when Vidal was three years old. Due to poverty as a single parent, his mother placed Sassoon and his younger brother in a Jewish orphanage, where they stayed for seven years until he was 11 when his mother remarried.〔 His mother was only allowed to visit them once a month and was never allowed to take them out. He attended Essendine Road Primary School, a Christian school, before being evacuated due to WWII to Holt, Wiltshire. After his return to London he left school at the age of 14 and worked as a messenger before starting a hairdressing apprenticeship. In his youth, he was also a football player.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.biography.com/people/vidal-sassoon-20888267 )〕 At the age of 17, although he had been too young to serve in World War II, he became the youngest member of the 43 Group, a Jewish veterans' underground organisation. It broke up the British Union of Fascists meetings in East London.〔〔''The Archive Hour'', BBC Radio 4, first broadcast 19 April 2008.〕 ''The Daily Telegraph'' calls him an "anti-fascist warrior-hairdresser" whose aim was to prevent Sir Oswald Mosley's movement from spreading "messages of hatred" in the period following World War II. In 1948, at the age of 20, he joined the Haganah (which shortly afterwards became the Israeli Defence Forces) and fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which began after Israel declared statehood.〔 During an interview, he described the year he spent training with the Israelis as "the best year of my life," and recalled how he felt: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vidal Sassoon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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