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" I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?' "
Mary Quant
Fun
Think
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" People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.' "
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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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" Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them. "
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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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" 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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" I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why. "
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Hated
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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 don't have birthdays. "
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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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" 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 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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" Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. "
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Alive
Today
" 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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" 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. "
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" As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board. "
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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
" 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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" Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. "
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" I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun. "
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" I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it. "
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" 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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" I love restaurants, and I love cooking. "
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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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" The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it. "
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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. "
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