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
bored people matter
All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored first
vulgarity-is taste vulgarity
Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.
ideas gone ive-learned
One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.
men fire engines
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.
knees young
A woman is as young as her knees.
youth realizing young
Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.
fashion home tools
Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home
fashion dresses gone
Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.
fashion home knowing
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.
funny money women
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
fashion games should
Fashion should be a game.
rain flower paper
Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.
thinking lazy-people want
Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.
giving risk important
Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.