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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
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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.
good people
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
school
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.
high sixties spirits
Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.
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When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion.
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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.