Mary Quant

“I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called...”

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

“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...”

“I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.”

“I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it.”

“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...”

“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.”

“Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.”

“As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.”