Mary Quant Quotes
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.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
I have been on a diet since 1962.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
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.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
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.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
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.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
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.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
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.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
London style is individual.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
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.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
A woman is as young as her knees.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
I have an awful lot of energy.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever.
Mary Quant
British fashion designer
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