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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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" 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. "

" Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever. "

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" The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets. "

" Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why. "

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" I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars. "

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" A woman is as young as her knees. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I love restaurants, and I love cooking. "

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

" Only ugliness is obscene. "

" 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. "

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