How many people can say they were a style icon at 5-years-old. Not very many, except for Alonso Mateo. And his freelance fashion stylist mother Luisa Fernanda Espinosa may have something to do with it.
Sassoon came to prominence in the 1960s as he pioneered the “wash and wear” look for women’s hair, basically freeing women from over-stylised, labour-intensive styles that dominated the 1950s. He pioneered an “architectural” approach to hairstyling, using geometric cuts and shapes modeled on the facial structure of the person he was styling. At the time, the approach was revolutionary.