78 Quotes by Mary Quant

The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.

The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.