For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were… — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react… — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this… — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always… — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
In America, they never make anything without first having a market survey to ask the public what they want. People only ask… — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison. — Mary Quant Copy Share
I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. — Mary Quant Copy Share
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. — Mary Quant Copy Share
I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work. — Mary Quant Copy Share
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted. — Mary Quant Copy Share
One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before. — Mary Quant Copy Share
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,… — Mary Quant Copy Share
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking. — Mary Quant Copy Share
Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. — Mary Quant Copy Share
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… — Mary Quant Copy Share
