{"id":115,"date":"2012-05-17T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2012-05-17T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T13:10:00","slug":"celebrity-hair-stylist-vidal-sassoon-dead-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/celebrity-hair-stylist-vidal-sassoon-dead-at-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity hair stylist Vidal Sassoon dead at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_4_0_24_1337259943806_316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"yui_3_4_0_24_1337259943806_379\" title=\"Famed hairdresser Vidal Sassoon helps style the hair of a model in Shanghai in this September 9, 1997 file photo. Sassoon, a celebrity hair stylist who parlayed his success in the salon into a huge business putting his name on numerous hair design products, has died at his home in Los Angeles at age 84, according to Los Angeles police. REUTERS\/Files\" src=\"http:\/\/l3.yimg.com\/bt\/api\/res\/1.2\/lnlCkn8G8vnIvKtnXMrgYA--\/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Y2g9MzYzO2NyPTE7Y3c9NDUwO2R4PTA7ZHk9MDtmaT11bGNyb3A7aD0xNTQ7cT04NTt3PTE5MA--\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en_us\/News\/Reuters\/2012-05-09T223420Z_2_CBRE8481ONV00_RTROPTP_2_CENTERTAINMENT-US-USA-VIDALSASSOON.JPG\" alt=\"Famed hairdresser Vidal Sassoon helps style the hair of a model in Shanghai in this September 9, 1997 file photo. Sassoon, a celebrity hair stylist who parlayed his success in the salon into a huge business putting his name on numerous hair design products, has died at his home in Los Angeles at age 84, according to Los Angeles police. REUTERS\/Files\" width=\"255\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist and fashion world icon who created a natural look in the 1960s and built a multi-million dollar business on his name, has died of apparent natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_4_0_24_1337259943806_330\">The British stylist&#8217;s scissors spelled the end of the 1950s-era beehive and the bouffant &#8211; untouchable hairstyles that owed their existence to lacquer and hair pins &#8211; and brought him international fame and fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Sassoon was dubbed a pioneer by many for coming up with so-called wash and wear looks &#8211; liberating many women from weekly salon trips to have their hair done.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_4_0_24_1337259943806_367\">Apart from hairdressing interests, he set up the Vidal Sassoon Foundation to help the needy in educational pursuits both in Israel and abroad.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_4_0_24_1337259943806_365\">Sassoon is survived by three children and his wife, Rhonda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist and fashion world icon who created a natural look in the 1960s and built a multi-million dollar business on his name, has died of apparent natural causes at his home in Los &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/celebrity-hair-stylist-vidal-sassoon-dead-at-84\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hairandbeautycentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}