Quotes by Mary Quant - Page 2

I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Havoc
Caused
Designed
Sixties
Travelled
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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
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Bored
Matter
People
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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.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
America
Remember When
Skinny
Anyone
Course
Saw
Sixties
Thin
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I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Finished
Forever
Garden
Seasons
Complete
Joys
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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.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Gone
I've Learned
Ideas
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As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Aunt
Summer
Used
Wales
Child
Board
Nearly
Catch
Cook
Holidays
Spend
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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.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Dissatisfied
Fashion
Ongoing
Reaching
Change Better Always
Next Thing
Permanently
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As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Creative
Creative Genius
Influence
Liberating
Figure
Formative
Pill
Sixties
Truly
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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.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Home
Fashion
Knowing
Looks
Person
Life Always Better
Why
Compete
Without
Outside
Well
React
Tool
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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.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Childhood
Clothes
Forever
Leap
Moved
No Reason
Reason
Allowed
Run
Saw
Jump
Precious
Retain
Worked
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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.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Hats
New Ideas
World City New
Bowler
Carrying
Wearing
Shop
Opened
Tightly
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The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Running
Faded
Flower
Lovely
Marvelous
Party
Muddled
Bit
Became
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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.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Chelsea
London
Mud
My Time
Social Life
Village
Life Time Work
Life Work Space
Divide
Particularly
Open Space
Sixties
Swinging
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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.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Britain
Ten
Life War Me
Ended
Fifties
Gardens
Hoping
Returned
Revert
Ten Years
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In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Car
Evening
July
Midnight
Streets
Tables
Abandoning
Drive
Cobbled
Insist
Join
Parts
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Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Chelsea
Models
Street
Walk
Jean
Most Beautiful
Road
Rye
Strong Men
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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.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Fashion
Stuck
People New Way
Market
Survey
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I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Laughter
One Day
Porsche
Roaring
Salesman
Smashing
Asked
Automatic
Stood
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I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.
Mary Quant / Fashion Designer
Amazing
Adore
Beautiful
Cows
Gentle
House
Inquisitive
Land
Ten
Most
Things
Talk
Love Amazing Beautiful
Live
Absolutely
Being
Animals
Around
Asleep
Cow
Eyes
Falling
Few
Few Things
Than
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