Celebrity hairdresser Trevor Sorbie dies from cancer aged 75

Celebrity hairdresser Trevor Sorbie, who gained fame with the instauration of the wedge cut, has died aged 75.

The award-winning Scottish stylist revealed successful October helium had weeks to unrecorded aft his bowel crab had dispersed to his liver.

Alongside styling galore celebrated faces implicit the years including The Beach Boys and Dame Helen Mirren, helium acceptable up a foundation which gives proposal to patients and NHS unit connected wig styling, hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment and re-growth aft treatment.

“It is with heartfelt emotion that we stock the passing of our esteemed founder, Trevor Sorbie MBE”, work a connection shared to the Instagram relationship of his hairsbreadth salon.

“Trevor passed distant peacefully with his household and beloved canine by his side. Trevor’s journey, marked by unparalleled creativity and kindness, has near an indelible people connected the satellite of hairdressing and beyond.”

A spokesperson for Sorbie’s institution besides confirmed his decease to the PA quality agency.

Sorbie revealed connected ITV’s This Morning past period that helium got his archetypal diagnosis of bowel crab aft going to the infirmary erstwhile helium mislaid a batch of humor 1 night.

The stylist explained the crab had dispersed to his liver and helium had undergone a six-and-a-half-hour cognition to region sections of it, but that his surgeon would nary longer run arsenic it was excessively adjacent to a large humor vessel.

Sorbie opened his eponymous archetypal salon successful 1979 successful Covent Garden, London, with the institution going connected to unfastened locations successful Brighton, Bristol, Hampstead, Manchester and Richmond.

His squad added successful the connection that Sorbie’s “vision acceptable caller standards and continues to animate generations”.

“As we commemorate 45 years of Trevor Sorbie salons, we stay steadfast successful upholding the passion, artistry and dedication that helium embodied,” it added.

“Trevor often reminded america to ‘be bold, beryllium different, but ever bash everything successful bully taste’. His ethos of kindness, attraction and excellence continues to usher us.

“He expressed immense pridefulness successful our squad and assurance successful our committedness to carrying guardant his legacy.”

During his career, the stylist acceptable up the foundation My New Hair to supply “public proposal and enactment a nationalist web of autarkic salons and professionals who supply a wig-styling work for radical suffering from crab and aesculapian hairsbreadth loss”.

His squad said they were going to honour Sorbie’s wishes for determination to beryllium nary funeral, and alternatively of flowers they invited radical to enactment 4 charities that were “close to his heart” – Marie Curie, Cancer Research UK, Rowans Hospice and My New Hair.

A peculiar lawsuit volition besides beryllium organised for adjacent twelvemonth to “celebrate his singular beingness and contributions”.

Sorbie, who was calved successful Paisley, Renfrewshire, was made an MBE successful 2004.

He was besides a four-time British Hairdresser of the Year victor who helped alteration the satellite of hairdressing done trend-setting styles specified arsenic the scrunch and the wolf.

During his career, helium besides created a fashionable eponymous haircare brand.