Mary Quant
Mary Quant
Dame Barbara Mary Quant, Mrs Plunket Greene, DBE, FCSD, RDIis a Welsh fashion designer and British fashion icon...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth11 February 1934
hard staying work
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.
work
I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.
age
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
adviser design
For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.
eating la outdoors particular passion
Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.
Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.
art schools
Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.
teachers
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
aunt catch cook holidays nearly spend
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.
developed loved
I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.
absolutely adore amazing asleep beautiful falling few field gentle land love talk ten
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.
absolutely asked automatic buy car porsche roaring salesman smashing stood
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.
jean left men models walk walking
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.
people
People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.