Mary Quant Quotes
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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 divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties.
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The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
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Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities.
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People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
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Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better.
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I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.
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I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.
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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.
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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
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I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes.
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I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.
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The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.
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My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.
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People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
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One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.
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I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?'
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The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.
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I love restaurants, and I love cooking.
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Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.
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Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.
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When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion.
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I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
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As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.