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" 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. "
Mary Quant
Working
Seasons
Never
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" I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I don't have birthdays. "
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" I have an awful lot of energy. "
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" I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars. "
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" Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever. "
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" One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before. "
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" Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. "
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" Good taste is death; vulgarity is life. "
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Death
Taste
" The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets. "
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Same
Seen
" 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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Strong
Road
" I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes. "
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Black
City
" 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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Head
Design
Look
" 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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You
Risks
" 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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Fashion
City
World
" 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
Want
Sugar
" 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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Along
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" People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more. "
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Sense
Having
More
" I have been on a diet since 1962. "
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Diet
Been
Since
" Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why. "
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Understand
Hated
I Can
" Only ugliness is obscene. "
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Only
Ugliness
Obscene
" 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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Life
Mud
Space
" 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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Home
Fashion
" 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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Eyes
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" The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned. "
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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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Bus
" My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning. "
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Garden
Christmas
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