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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning. "

" I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted. "

" London style is individual. "

" 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. "

" I love restaurants, and I love cooking. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital. "

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

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

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

" A woman is as young as her knees. "

" 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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" I don't have birthdays. "