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
change reaching
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.
compete fashion knowing life looks outside people react tool
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.
school
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.
appeared unlike
One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.
caused designed havoc travelled
I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.
moved peace perfect piece poetry recite
The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.
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.