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20 Questions with Trevor Sorbie

Posted by Kate
Dated: June 12, 2008 9:51 AM

Name: Trevor Sorbie


Age: 58


Salon: Trevor Sorbie


Career History: 

From barbershop boy to Buckingham Palace to collect his MBE, Trevor Sorbie is no ordinary hairdresser. Pioneer of cuts and styling techniques such as The Wedge, The Chop and The Scrunch and innovator of professional haircare products for the high street, Trevor Sorbie has won the coveted British Hairdresser of the Year title an unrivalled four times.

Recently Trevor has launched 'My New Hair', a wig personalisation charity that aims restore confidence in the sufferers of cancer and alopecia.




What is your biggest achievement? 

Receiving an MBE


If you weren't a hairdresser what would you be? 

Chef


How would your clients describe you? 

Caring & down to earth


Which one style do you wish you had created?  

The five point haircut by Vidal Sassoon 


Who is your style icon? 

Madonna


Who is your hairdressing idol? 

Vidal Sassoon


Which hairdresser would you most like to work with (past or present)? 

Lenoard Lewis


Who cuts your hair? 

Anybody in my salon


Favourite part of the job? 

Creating new ideas


Who is your most famous client past or present? 

Grace Jones


Last time you were lost for words? 

Everyday


Which one product couldn't you live without? 

Pre style spray


Is there anything about the industry that makes you mad? 

Anyone that is not professional


What's the biggest gaffe you've made in your career? 

Cutting a models ear on stage

What's the best career advice you've ever been given? 

Never stop learning


Last time you were star-struck? 

Backstage at the Princess Diana concert


Time you were most proud to be in hairdressing? 

In the 80s, it was so creative


What celebrity haircut do you wish had never caught on? 

The perm, example Kevin Kegan


What haircut would you love to make a come-back and how would you re-invent it for the noughties? 

The Coupe Savage and I would not update it


Sleek and shiny or messy bed hair? 

Messy bed hair



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