Mary Quant Quotes

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.

Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.

Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.

Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.

Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.

Fashion should be a game.

A woman is as young as her knees.

One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.

All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored first

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.

Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

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.

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.

One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.

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

I have been on a diet since 1962.

Good taste is death vulgarity is life.

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.