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" Only ugliness is obscene. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I have been on a diet since 1962. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Good taste is death; vulgarity is life. "

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

" I don't have birthdays. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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