Vidal Sassoon was a bicycle messenger

Hair stylist Vidal Sassoon apparently had an interesting life as a teen and young adult. He grew up in a Jewish orphanage in London, worked through the London Blitz delivering packages as a 14 year old bike courier and picked street fights with fascists in post-war Britian as a member of the infamous 43 Group before joining Haganah / the Israeli Defense Force in 1948.

More –> New York Times Magazine: Don’t mess with Vidal Sassoon. Via Karen Johanson and The Bike Show.

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