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

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

" 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. "

" Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. "

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

" People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more. "

" Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. "

" 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. "

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

" The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned. "

" 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. "

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

" I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes. "

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

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

" 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. "

" A woman is as young as her knees. "

" 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 love restaurants, and I love cooking. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. "

" 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. "

" 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 liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work. "

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

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

" I don't have birthdays. "