Mary Quant Quotes

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

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  Fashion, Alive, Today

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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

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  Thinking, Lazy People, Want

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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

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  Giving, Risk, Important

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

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  Fashion, People, Feels

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

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  Fashion, Women, Clothes

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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• Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.

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  Rain, Flower, Paper

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• Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

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  Vulgarity Is, Taste, Vulgarity

  "Why Mary Quant's Swinging Sixties London Look Stills Holds Sway" by Lynn Yaeger, www.vogue.com. February 11, 2015.

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• A woman is as young as her knees.

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  Journey, Hiking, Knees

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Gone, I've Learned

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• 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

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  People, Bored, Matter

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• 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.

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  Fashion, Home, Knowing

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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• Fashion should be a game.

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  Fashion, Games, Should

  1966 Quant by Quant.

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

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  Fashion, Home, Tools

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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

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  Youth, Realizing, Young

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

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  Fashion, Dresses, Gone

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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

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  Funny, Money, Women

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

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  Men, Fire, Engines

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