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Yorkshire hairdresser Russell Eaton, who has salons in Leeds and Barnsley, on the Sassoon legacy for Yorkshire Post feature by Stephanie Smith
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00:00I often think, you know, how many people have walked through this door in the latter 25 years?
00:16This was my dryer that I had at Vidal Susum in the 70s.
00:22It's a wigger tie from a hairdryer and these were really the dryer to have.
00:31When I joined the industry as an apprentice, there was very little blow drying.
00:36In the main, it was ladies having their hair set and dressed.
00:41So, the Susum Way was an absolute revolution.
00:46It may not seem, we all accept it today, but at the time, it was so apart from anything else that was happening in the industry.
00:55This was called The Thatch and it was by a gentleman called Christopher Brooker, an iconic hairdresser at Vidal Susum.
01:05Vidal felt hair should be cut like a material and this was tremendously exciting because nobody else was doing it.
01:19Well, what I like about it is the lovely edge the haircut has and the deep fringe and I still feel that is very current today.
01:29film mostly
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