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

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" I have been on a diet since 1962. "

" 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. "

" People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them. "

" I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Of course I remember everything I've ever worn. "

" Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever. "

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

" 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. "

" Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise. "

" 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. "

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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. "