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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August. "

" I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I have been on a diet since 1962. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A woman is as young as her knees. "

" 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. "

" I have an awful lot of energy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "