Vidal Sassoon Dies But His Cuts Live On. A Look At The Hair Master's Muses And Styles.

above: Vidal Sassoon with some of his models donning his famous cuts

"My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous." - Vidal Sassoon

Legendary Hair Stylist Vidal Sassoon has passed away at the age of 84 at his Mullholland Estate in Los Angeles, after a rumored battle with Leukemia.



He changed the lives and looks of women everywhere with his 1960's geometric cuts that allowed women to spend less time on their appearance and still look fabulous.


above: Sassoon cuts Mia Farrow's Hair for her role in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby

He shocked the world when he chopped off actress Mia Farrow's hair in 1967 for the movie Rosemary's Baby and gave her the pixie still worn by many actresses today such as Natalie Portman, Emma Watson, Carey Mulligan, Gennifer Goodwin, Alyssa Milano and Victoria Beckham:



With muses like Vogue editor Grace Coddington, Fashion designer Mary Quant, 60's Model Twiggy, Actresses Mia Farrow, Nancy Kwan, Carol Channing, and more, his status grew to legendary proportions.

With Carol Channing:

With Mia Farrow:

With Mary Quant:

With Grace Coddington:


And a few famous women sporting his cuts:

Peggy Moffitt:

Twiggy:

Mia Farrow:

Grace Coddington:


The Pixie Cut, the Five Point Bob, The Box Bob, The Inverted Bob, the Long Bob, The Asymmetrical Bob, The Quiff Bob, The Acute Angle cut are just a few of the styles he made famous and are still popular today.

The Quiff Bob:

The Five Point Bob:


The Acute Angle Cut:

The Inverted Bob:

The Asymmetrical Bob:


The Box Bob:

The Long Inverted Bob:

The Long Bob:


Vidal Sassoon continues to have a profound influence on hairstyles and hair dressers and his work will live on forever. His legacy includes, in addition to the haircuts, a full line of Vidal Sassoon products, an autobiography and a book.

A Mash Up of Banksy's Art and Academy Award Winner Tom Hanks = Hanksy.

above: Banksy's Flower Thrower becomes Tom Hanks chucking Wilson, the volleyball that kept him company in Castaway

Street Art and Graffiti often tends to be tongue-in cheek to begin with. Add another layer of puns and fun and you've got Hanksy's work - A mash up of the street art by Banksy and the movies of award winning actor Tom Hanks.



The street art references Hanks' roles in films such as Big, Catch Me If You Can, Forrest Gump, Castaway, A League of Their Own, Apollo 13 and The Money Pit to name a few. The familiar Bansky stencils are modified to include Hanks' head and lines relating to the movies, infused with puns and wordplays.


above: the Hansky exhibit at Krause Gallery

The images and work of Hanksy have appeared on the streets of New York and Chicago and New York's Krause Gallery featured much of his work on paper in a recent exhibit.

The following images are from that show.













And here are some shots of Hanksy's work in situ:




Tom Hanks isn't the only celebrity in the work by Hansky, check out his street art of Ted Danson, Ryan Gosling (Drive-Thru), Bill Cosby (Jello) and Erkel (Cheese):





The text below is courtesy of the Krause Gallery:
A street artist is doing some amazing new street art in and around NYC.
He goes by the name of HANKSY.
Add the overwhelming popularity of Tom Hanks to the cool factor of the most famous street artist of all time, Banksy, and you get HANKSY. HANKSY has become a social media phenomenon with his imaginative street art spoofs by taking images of Banksy’s work and adding in references from Tom Hanks’ films.

“People have speculated whether HANKSY is just a play on words or perhaps something a bit more, does he hate Banksy? Is it homage to one of the greatest street artists and actors of our time? Maybe it’s an attempt to subvert the subversive or perhaps it plays on the uniquely American pleasure the public finds in trivial imagery. Maybe in the end its much more straightforward? Add a certain ‘sometimes’ vowel at the end of a specific actor’s surname and it sounds an awful lot like the world’s most well-known street artist. (via Krause Gallery)

The Awl has an interview with Hanksy here

You can see several of the Hansky graffiti work in situ here at flickr.