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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. "

Mary Quant

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

" I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted. "

Mary Quant

Age

Way

" 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. "

" 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. "

" London style is individual. "

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

Mary Quant

Uniform

Start

" 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. "

" Only ugliness is obscene. "

" 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. "

" As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison. "

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

" Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff. "

" 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. "

Mary Quant

Road

Alive

" Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. "

" 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. "

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

Mary Quant

Sense

Having

" 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. "

" Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country. "

Mary Quant

Art

Country

" 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. "

" My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning. "

" A woman is as young as her knees. "

" The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it. "

" I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today. "

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