Vidal Sassoon, hairstyling pioneer, dies at 84 in Los Angeles
(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - Vidal Sassoon, the celebrity hairstylist whose 1960s wash-and-wear cuts freed women from endless teasing and hairspray, has died. He was 84.
Sassoon died at his home on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, police spokesman Kevin Maiberger said. Officers were summoned at about 10:30 a.m. to the home, where they found Sassoon dead with his family around him. They determined that he had died of natural causes, and there will be no further police investigation, Maiberger said.
When Sassoon picked up his shears in the 1950s, hair was typically curled, teased, piled high and shellacked into place. Then came the 1960s, and Sassoon's creative cuts, which required little styling and fell into place perfectly every time, fit right in with the fledgling women's liberation movement.
"My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous," Sassoon said in 1993 in the Los Angeles Times, which first reported his death Wednesday. "Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer anymore."
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