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
All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter… — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.' — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to… — 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
I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun. — 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 Image
I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work. — 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 stilted. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
