Rose Evansky

Her father was sent to Dachau concentration camp in 1938, and Rose was one of the last children to be sent to Britain from Germany on the Kindertransport trains.

[2] In 1962,[3] from her salon window, Evansky noticed a barber using a powerful new hand-held dryer—together with a hairbrush—to smooth a man's hair.

A little while later she was spotted trying it in her salon (on a Mrs. Hay) by Clare Rendlesham who set about marketing this blow-wave which worked on straight hair as well.

[4][5][6][7] This was quite a step up from her early beginnings as an apprentice working for Adolf Cohen of Whitechapel Road, known as the "professor" of the hairdressing trade, who also trained Vidal Sassoon.

After she was noticed at the launch of a book by another 1960s hairdresser, and interviewed by radio and fashion press, she wrote a memoir in 2013, In Paris We Sang (2013).