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.

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.

A woman is as young as her knees.

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

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

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

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

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

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.