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Vidal Sassoon snubbed for new £20 note as "Hairdressers are NOT Visual Artists"

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Elmer Bilek
11 years ago

What a shame that this true legand did did not get the recognition that he deserves. What is wrong here?

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Elmer Bilek
11 years ago

What a shame that this true legand did did not get the recognition that he deserves. What is wrong here?

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Elmer Bilek
11 years ago

What a shame that this true legand did did not get the recognition that he deserves. What is wrong here?

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Adam franklyn
11 years ago

Vidal Sassoon was one of the best visual artist of his generation

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Vanessa
11 years ago

Hairdressing is one of the highest forms of artistry!

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Polly Frazier
11 years ago

I am a visual artist

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Polly Frazier
11 years ago

i am a visual artist

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Joe Tucci
11 years ago

hair dressing is a visual art! Try cutting or styling hair blind folded and see what you end up with. Without our sense of vision we can not see balance,color or a clients imperfections. We use our eyes as a tool to sculpt, enhance and diminish. The stylist sculpts the hair to frame the face thus creating an image! An image can not be seen without the sense of vision. Hair dressing is purely visual!

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Sarah Williams
11 years ago

This is an art !

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Jacqueline Arlia
11 years ago

I'm an artist.

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Brittany Darling
11 years ago

Hairdresser are just as much an artist as a painter or sculptor

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Desiree Lopez
11 years ago

I am a Visual Artist...

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Angela Madsen
11 years ago

Hairdressing and fashion has everything to do with visual art!

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Larry collins
11 years ago

This much-deserving, humanity-serving man and his good deeds should be recognized formally Larry Collins

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cristina orozco
11 years ago

Hairstylist and all people in the beauty industry ARE visual artists.

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Stephani Patterson
11 years ago

I am a visual artist!!!!!!!!!!!!! If u studied at Sassoon, u dfinately have a different set of eyes than when u began.... And that new set of eyes is to become the best artist u can b in our industry. If that is not a visual artist I do not know what is!

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Clark Russell
11 years ago

Hairdressing is a Visual Art! I stand by Vidal Sassoon for inspiring myself and million to becoming who we are today! Iconic and Legendary. Vidal Sassoon will forever inspire the world! Bank of England....He's your man! Please make this happen!

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Fernando Hernandez
11 years ago

Simple word as ICON for hairdressers in the world.. Love and respect from México

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Anonymous
11 years ago

Hairdressing is one of the most visual arts around - you wear your hair evey day for all to see, it does not hang in a gallery where only a select few may choose to visit. Bad call Bank of Engaland,.

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Cos sakkas
11 years ago

This is Terrible that such an amazing profession and Industry is persevered so ignorantly by the Bank of England. The awareness that you are creating shows the unity ,passion and belief in the visual artistry we create every day. Xxx