Mary Quant Quotes
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Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin.
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London style is individual.
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As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.
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I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.
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I have been on a diet since 1962.
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I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.
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In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
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In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.
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In America, they never make anything without first having a market survey to ask the public what they want. People only ask for things they already know about, so you don't get anything new that way. That's why American fashion is stuck.
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Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street.
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I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.
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As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
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The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned.
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Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever.
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A woman is as young as her knees.
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Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
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The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
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I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.
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I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.
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I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it.
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I don't have birthdays.
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Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.
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I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.
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I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.