The top name in hairdressing during the Sixties was Vidal Sassoon, whose customers included Mary Quant, Jean Shrimpton and Mia Farrow. Sassoon famously flew to America for Farrow when she wanted her hair styled for the film 'Rosemary's Baby'. It cost her $5,000. Sassoon had been a protégé of Mr Tea
Andre Courreges was born in Pau, in the Basque country of France in 1923. Although he studied and became a civil engineer, he was always interested in architecture and textile design. He found work designing footwear and men's clothing for a tailor, while occupying himself with Rugby and Mountain cli
Chen Yifei, recognized as one of the most famous oil painters in China and whose works were among the earliest of their type to be exhibited and sold in Western countries, was born in 1946 in Ningbo, Zhejiang.
In 1965, he graduated from the Shanghai Art Training School and began focusing on oil pa