Modern young hair sylist , Vidal Sassoon squints up at the sky with his wife Elaine , as six of his models wave goodbye to them from the roof of the airport building at London airport . The sytlist with the Bond Street salon is leaving for Europe for a tour of salons who have asked him to visit and demonstrate his art to them. First he goes to Lisbon , then on to Madrid , Rome , Stockholm , Copenhagen , Brussels and Paris . 26th June 1958