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Fashion should be a game.
Only ugliness is obscene.
London style is individual.
I have an awful lot of energy.
I have been on a diet since 1962.
A woman is as young as her knees.
Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever.
Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.
I love restaurants, and I love cooking.
Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.
Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.
Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.
Of course I remember everything I've ever worn.
The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned.
Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.
I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?'
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.
Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.
I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.
I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.
I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.
The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.
Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.
Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.
Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.
For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.
The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.
My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.
One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.
Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.
Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.
Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.
Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.
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.
I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes.
I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it.
I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.