English - Designer | February 11, 1934 -
People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
Mary Quant
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The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.
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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.
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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.
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I have been on a diet since 1962.
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London style is individual.
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I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
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Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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