Did you have a haircut that made you famous?
The haircut that put me on the map was a haircut called "The Wedge" and it was in 1974 and I kind of designed it by accident. I was asked to do a show in Paris for Vidal Sassoon and he asked all these art directors, me being one, if we could design a new collection of haircuts. I tried to do this one length haircut, really short but one length inside and it just looked like a helmet, it looked awful and I thought I've got to salvage this somehow. So, I brushed it back and in popped this heavy sort of movement and it went into a wedge shape at the back. People like David Bowie wore it, you know, I mean it was the club hairstyle of the 70's and that was an interesting time because I thought "If I can do that once, I can do it again, I know I can". One day I was working for a hair dresser called John Frieda and you had to use his method of drying hair, which was finger drying until the hair was dry and it took a long process. One day I tried to speed the process up and I said "Do you mind if I use the hair dryer madam?" and she said "no" so I got a handful of hair and I put the heat into it, held it tight until it cooled down, let go and it just went into this sort of curling and that's how the scrunch was invented, scrunch drying and nearly every woman in this world at one point in their life has scrunched their hair. That was in 1979, in 1980 I invented what is known as texturizing. I had this mad way of thinking in those days. I thought opposites work, up-down, in-out, black-white and I thought good haircut-bad haircut, but make it look good and in those days we were just picking hair up and cutting it like this. Well I picked the hair up and went right into it at different lengths and every hair dresser to this day texturizes hair, so there were 3 of my sort of milestone inventions that kinda got me up here.
