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Award-winning celebrity hairdresser Trevor Sorbie dies aged 75

Creator of the wedge cut dies after being diagnosed with terminal cancer

The stylist, who frequently appeared on TV and had his own line of hair products, revealed in October he had weeks to live after his bowel cancer spread to his liver. The wedge, a smooth and sharply angled cut pioneered by the hairdresser in 1974 while he was working at Vidal Sassoon, was the first haircut to be featured in a double-page spread in Vogue. He then set up the charity My New Hair to support and adviseindependent salons and stylists on providing a wig-styling service for people with cancer, and helped to draw up a standard for NHS wigs.

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