Words matter. These are the best Mary Quant Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.
I love restaurants, and I love cooking.
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.
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’ve always loved painting and drawing. I wish I’d developed it more and exhibited.
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
Eating outdoors is a particular passion – that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.
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.
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
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.
Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.
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.
Only ugliness is obscene.
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 don’t have birthdays.
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.
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.
Of course I remember everything I’ve ever worn.
I have been on a diet since 1962.
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn’t like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
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.
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.
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.
