Mary Quant

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

“The whole point of fashion is to make fashionable clothes available to everyone.”

“The fashionable woman is the one who is wearing clothes that are fun.”

“Good taste is death, vulgarity is life.”

“It was the girls on the King's Road who invented the mini. I was making easy, youthful, simple clothes... I was making them the length the customer wanted.”

“Risk it, risk it... How can you live? Once you've tasted being a little bit daring, you can't go back.”

“A woman is as young as her knees.”

“I didn't have time to wait for women's lib.”

“The mini-skirt was a way of rebelling.”

“Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People favor underdogs and rebels.”

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

“The sixties mini was the most self-indulgent, optimistic fashion ever devised.”

“I wanted to design clothes that you could run for a bus in.”

“Style is not a status symbol, it's a personal thing.”