If Valentino: The Last Emperor taught us anything it’s: you can make a mint with a fashion-related docu. Phase 4, the distributors of Italian fashion icon Valentino are now moving onto London, home of hairdressing icon Vidal Sassoon. A release is expected early next year on the Tribeca preemed doc.
Vidal Sassoon the Movie is a true rags-to-riches tale, tracing Sassoon’s path from a London orphanage to international success and celebrity. Producer Michael Gordon, founder of hair care company Bumble and bumble, first set out to document Vidal’s life in a richly visual book about icons in the world of hairdressing. What started as an 80th birthday tribute to Sassoon became a movie when Gordon brought on director Craig Teper. While chronicling the fashion, style and social revolutions of the 1960s, VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE shows how Sassoon revolutionized the world of hair with his pioneering, geometric, Bauhaus-inspired styles and “wash and wear” philosophy, literally changing the way women look and cut their hair today.
