Top 60 Quotes by Mary Quant

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.

One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

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 dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

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.

For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.

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.

In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.

I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.

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.