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
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.
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.
fashion games should
Fashion should be a game.
fashion people feels
Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.
fashion today alive
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
fashion clothes fashionable
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned.
cream gave good watched
I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.
bus catch liked work
I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.
market people public survey
In America, they never make anything without first having a market survey to ask the public what they want. People only ask for things they already know about, so you don't get anything new that way. That's why American fashion is stuck.
caused people
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
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.