Written by After Vidal Sassoon changed the look of women’s hair with his radical geometric cuts in the early 1960s, variants of his original shapes prevailed. Short cuts kept close to a head’s profile, longer bobs swung in movement but dropped straight as a curtain at rest. Then in 1974, Sassoon’s young artistic director, Trevor Sorbie, saw […]
The hairdresser Trevor Sorbie, who was celebrated for pioneering the wedge haircut and inventing scrunch drying, has died aged 75, his company has announced. The stylist, who frequently appeared on TV and had his own line of hair products, revealed in October he had weeks to live after his bowel cancer spread to his liver. […]
If you’ve spent the past 10 years trying – and failing – to do those loose, carefree, beachy waves, then you can finally put down your tongs, tend to your burns and give it all up as a bad job. Hair is changing. And, it seems, expanding outwards. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission […]