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" Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital. "
Mary Quant
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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'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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" Good taste is death; vulgarity is life. "
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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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" My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August. "
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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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" 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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Evening
" I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes. "
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City
" I love restaurants, and I love cooking. "
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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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" 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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" I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun. "
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Working
Imagine
" I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking. "
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Start
" London style is individual. "
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London
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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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City
World
" I have an awful lot of energy. "
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Lot
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" The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned. "
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" I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?' "
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" The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it. "
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" The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. "
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" Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them. "
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" I don't have birthdays. "
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" I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars. "
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Like
" 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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America
" Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. "
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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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" 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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" The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets. "
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