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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Knees
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman is as young as her knees.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only ugliness is obscene.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.
- Different Countries
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.
- Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been on a diet since 1962.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
London style is individual.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 that way. That's why American fashion is stuck.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 hostilities.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
- Appeared
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have birthdays.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I remember everything I've ever worn.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.
- Awful Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an awful lot of energy.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love restaurants, and I love cooking.
- Catch
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better.
- Outdoors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020