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.
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.
Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.
The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.
Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.
The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned.
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.
I don't have birthdays.
I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.
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.
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.
Of course I remember everything I've ever worn.
Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.
One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever.
London style is individual.
