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
people
People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
ended gardens hoping life people returned revert ten war
Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities.
allowed clothes created freedom last moved people precious reason retain saw worked
I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.
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.
good people
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
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.
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
thinking lazy-people want
Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.
fashion people feels
Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.
divide life mud open social space swinging time village work
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.
favourite mainly market
My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.
christmas england full garden heat lunch morning september warm
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.
america anyone everybody saw until
Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin.