Mary Quant quotes

Mary Quant was an influential English fashion designer often credited with popularizing the miniskirt and shaping 1960s youth culture. Her innovative and bold designs revolutionized women's fashion and encouraged individual expression. She became a symbol of creativity and modernity in the world of fashion. Here are 10 of her quotes:

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

Mary Quant

Only ugliness is obscene.

Mary Quant

Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street.

Mary Quant

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

Mary Quant

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.

Mary Quant

Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.

Mary Quant

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

Mary Quant

A woman is as young as her knees.

Mary Quant

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

Mary Quant