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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. "

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" In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do. "

" 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. "

" One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before. "

" I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. "

" Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. "

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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. "

" Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever. "

" I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work. "

" Only ugliness is obscene. "

" People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more. "

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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. "

" I love restaurants, and I love cooking. "

" The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it. "

" I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?' "

" Of course I remember everything I've ever worn. "

" My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August. "

" I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes. "

" 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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" I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun. "

" Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital. "

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" I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking. "

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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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" Good taste is death; vulgarity is life. "

" 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. "

" I have been on a diet since 1962. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. "

" 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. "