My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

If you don't look good, we don't look good.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?