{"id":3793,"date":"2025-11-23T12:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/the-man-behind-mia-farrows-famous-pixie-cut\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T12:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:49:05","slug":"the-man-behind-mia-farrows-famous-pixie-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/the-man-behind-mia-farrows-famous-pixie-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Behind Mia Farrow&#8217;s Famous Pixie Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tVidal Sassoon\u2019s liberating approach to beauty didn\u2019t just impact famous clients like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/mia-farrow\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mia-farrow_1\" data-tag=\"mia-farrow\">Mia Farrow<\/a>. The hairstylist, who was born in London in 1928 and grew up in poverty, rose to prominence in the 1960s with his innovative concept that short, geometric cuts were not only a modern approach reflecting the architecture of the era but would also free women in all walks of life from frequent trips to the salon. His shop on London\u2019s Bond Street would become a destination and helped land him such notable celebrity clients as Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn 1967, Sassoon earned major attention when he was hired by friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/roman-polanski\/\" id=\"auto-tag_roman-polanski_1\" data-tag=\"roman-polanski\">Roman Polanski<\/a> to work on Farrow\u2019s pixie cut on the Paramount lot amid production on the director\u2019s horror classic <em>Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em>. Shortly after Sassoon\u2019s 2012 death from leukemia at 84, Farrow tweeted that the Paramount cut was a \u201cpublicity prank,\u201d as she had privately shorn her own long locks \u2014 which she\u2019d become known for during her time on 1964\u2019s <em>Peyton Place<\/em> \u2014 with Sassoon merely trimming the hairdo for the photo op.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSassoon himself was mentioned various times in <em>Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em> when Farrow\u2019s character tries to defend her extreme look. \u201cIt\u2019s Vidal Sassoon \u2014 it\u2019s very in,\u201d Farrow\u2019s character explains in the film. \u201cVidal claims [the name drop] brought his name to Middle America for the first time \u2014 and directly led to him starting a product line and taking over the U.S.,\u201d Craig Teper, director of the 2010 documentary <em>Vidal Sassoon: The Movie<\/em>, tells <em>THR<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSassoon, who also was famous for cutting Goldie Hawn\u2019s and Jane Fonda\u2019s hair as well as the five-point cut popularized by model and <em>Vogue<\/em> editor Grace Coddington, dealt with public criticism for cutting women\u2019s hair so short. \u201cBarbara Walters said I was making beautiful women look like boys,\u201d Sassoon told <em>THR<\/em> in 2011. His enduring legacy includes salons, beauty schools and a line of hair products, but Sassoon told <em>THR<\/em> he never let his reputation get to his head: \u201cI was always thinking of what I was going to do next and would it be successful and would I make a mess of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story appeared in the Nov. 19 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriptions.hollywoodreporter.com\/site\/thr-subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vidal Sassoon\u2019s liberating approach to beauty didn\u2019t just impact famous clients like Mia Farrow. The hairstylist, who was born in London in 1928 and grew up in poverty, rose to prominence in the 1960s with his innovative concept that short, geometric cuts were not only a modern approach reflecting the architecture of the era but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3753,2823,3751,3733,1762,3752],"class_list":{"0":"post-3793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fashion","8":"tag-cut","10":"tag-farrows","11":"tag-man","12":"tag-mia","13":"tag-pixie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}