Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon
Author: Vidal Sassoon
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0847838595

A captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name, Vidal Sassoon was an instrument of change during the cultural shifts of the 1960s. Inspired by Bauhaus architecture, Sassoon’s career took off with the Nancy Kwan bob in 1963, followed by the boyish five-point haircut that blurred class and sexual distinctions in the unisex era. These low-maintenance styles signaled liberation from the constraints of the past and led to a mix of social strata in his Bond Street salon as both ladies and shopgirls had their hair trimmed side by side. His singular and iconic haircuts for tastemakers such as Grace Coddington and Mia Farrow charted a new course for ideals of feminine beauty. Combining fashion photography, candid snapshots, and recollections by Sassoon and members of his artistic circle, such as David Bailey, Terence Donovan, and Mary Quant, this book is a fascinating look at one man’s driven efforts to transform style and the radical changes wrought by progressive fashion.

Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design

Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design
Author: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2022-04-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000584283

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately transformative effects were housing, typography, and photography. Contributors go further to chart the surprising relation of the school to contemporary developments in hairstyling and shop window display in unprecedented detail. New scholarship has detailed the degree to which Bauhaus faculty and students set off around the world, but it has seldom paid attention to its impact in communist East Germany or in countries like Ireland where no Bauhäusler settled. This wide-ranging collection makes clear that a century after its founding, many new stories remain to be told about the influence of the twentieth century’s most innovative arts institution. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, design history, photography, and architectural history.

Vidal

Vidal
Author: Vidal Sassoon
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2010-09-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0230753795

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.

Bauhaus Bodies

Bauhaus Bodies
Author: Elizabeth Otto
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1501344803

A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at the heart of art and life at the school. Bauhaus Bodies reassesses the work of both well-known Bauhaus members and those who have unjustifiably escaped scholarly scrutiny, its women in particular. In fourteen original, cutting-edge essays by established experts and emerging scholars, this book reveals how Bauhaus artists challenged traditional ideas about bodies and gender. Written to appeal to students, scholars, and the broad public, Bauhaus Bodies will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern art, architecture, design history, and gender studies; it will define conversations and debates during the 2019 centenary of the Bauhaus's founding and beyond.

Eva Scrivo on Beauty (with embedded videos)

Eva Scrivo on Beauty (with embedded videos)
Author: Eva Scrivo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 143916486X

Eva Scrivo has worked with thousands of women and knows firsthand that beauty is a learned skill that is within everyone’s grasp. Now, in this cutting edge, enhanced ebook, she shows you how attainable becoming your own beauty expert really is! Approaching beauty as a whole and each person as an individual, Eva Scrivo on Beauty empowers you and brings to life a world of possibilities, providing the tools and techniques for achieving the looks and confidence you've always dreamed of. By debunking common myths, simplifying professional techniques, translating industry terms, and sharing insights gained from years of experience, Eva not only teaches you the rules, she shows when to break them in order to create your own personal style. In this definitive interactive guide to gorgeous hair, glowing skin, beautiful makeup, a healthier body, and a stronger fashion sense, in addition to Eva’s insight, captivating photography, and illustrations, this enhanced ebook includes 36 original how-to videos that bring the knowledge of this preeminent expert to life. Completely unique and comprehensive, Eva Scrivo on Beauty gives you the virtual experience of sitting in Eva’s chair at her salon and will show you how to: Effectively communicate with a stylist to design the perfect haircut. Select hair color to complement your skin tone and add dimension to your cut. Give yourself a salon-worthy blowout. Style your bangs. Work with the natural wave of your hair. Apply makeup like a professional. Determine the eyebrow shape best for you. Make smart fashion choices to pull it all together. And much more!

Bauhaus Imaginista

Bauhaus Imaginista
Author: Marion Von Osten
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0500021937

Featuring the latest research commissioned on the occasion of the Bauhaus centenary, this book explores the global influence of the renowned Bauhaus school of arts and its famed artists. Bauhaus Imaginista marks the centennial anniversary of this fascinating and popular school of art, which championed the idea of artists working together as a community. The Bauhaus reconnected art with everyday life and was active in the fields of architecture, performance, design, and visual art. Founded by Walter Gropius, its faculty included such luminaries as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, La´szlo´ Moholy-Nagy, and Josef Albers. Placing emphasis on the international dissemination and reception of the Bauhaus, this book expresses the Bauhaus’ influence, philosophy, and history beyond Germany. Rethinking the school from an international perspective, it sets its entanglements against a century of geopolitical change, as many of its artists fled World War II Germany. Bauhaus Imaginista takes readers on a global visual tour of Bauhaus influence from art and design museums to campus galleries and art institutes in India, Japan, China, Russia, Brazil, Berlin, and the United States.

Cutting Hair the Vidal Sassoon Way

Cutting Hair the Vidal Sassoon Way
Author: Vidal Sassoon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2013-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113607726X

explains exactly how the main basic and most important haircuts are done step by step extensive use of photographs

No Logo

No Logo
Author: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2000-01-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780312203436

"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.

Deluxe

Deluxe
Author: Dana Thomas
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2007-08-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 110121807X

“With Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, [Dana] Thomas—who has been the cultural and fashion writer for Newsweek in Paris for 12 years—has written a crisp, witty social history that’s as entertaining as it is informative.” —New York Times From the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and, above all, profits. Award-winning journalist Dana Thomas digs deep into the dark side of the luxury industry to uncover all the secrets that Prada, Gucci, and Burberry don't want us to know. Deluxe is an uncompromising look behind the glossy façade that will enthrall anyone interested in fashion, finance, or culture.