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Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chelsea Handler, Tilda Swinton, and Sofia Coppola are other clients. They're all risk takers but never look like they're in costume.
Maria Cornejo
Other
Maggie
Risk
Costume
Never
Takers
Like
Look
Chelsea
Clients
Coppola
There are people who don't like to use other films as research, but I love it.
Mark Bridges
Love
People
Research
Films
Other
Like
Use
Who
In my research, I learned that the way these twenties pieces are constructed, in one garment, can be very simple, and in others they can be very complicated. That's what made an elusive fit that we can't always get these days. Knowing this, I would like to share some of these secrets and use them in a collection.
Mark Bridges
Complicated
Simple
Made
Research
Others
Elusive
Way
Secrets
Collection
Would
Some
Constructed
Share
Days
Like
Pieces
Knowing
Learned
Always
Fit
Very
Get
Them
Use
Twenties
Garment
Each time somebody working for the Maison has a baby, the atelier creates miniature blouses-blanches, exactly like the ones we wear, with the child's name embroidered across the front. That is our welcome-to-this-world gift.
Martin Margiela
Time
Gift
Somebody
Baby
Our
Miniature
Exactly
Wear
Name
Like
Child
Front
Creates
Working
Across
Each
Each Time
Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.
Mary McFadden
Something
Exercise
Always
Effortless
Enjoyed
Designing
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
Beautiful
Strong
Most Beautiful
Walk
King
Men
Down
Strong Men
Through
Road
Over
Like
Most
She
Known
Chelsea
Left
Up
Walking
Models
Just
Jean
Street
Right
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.
Mary Quant
School
More
Up
Uniform
Used
Skirt
Start
Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin.
Mary Quant
Remember
Everybody
Saw
Remember When
Until
Course
America
Sixties
Anyone
Skinny
Who
Thin
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.
Mary Quant
Freedom
People
Clothes
Saw
Run
No Reason
Retain
Allowed
Leap
Jump
Forever
Precious
Childhood
Moved
Worked
Created
Reason
Why
Last
Only ugliness is obscene.
Mary Quant
Only
Obscene
Ugliness
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.
Mary Quant
Life
War
Me
You
People
Before
Would
Hoping
Give
Ten
Ten Years
Had
Idea
Most
Returned
How
Years
Revert
Ended
Fifties
Gardens
Britain
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
Mary Quant
Today
Fashion
Alive
Part
Frivolous
Being
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
Mary Quant
Good
People
Old
Good Taste
Become
New
Call
Vulgar
Taste
Them
Things
I have been on a diet since 1962.
Mary Quant
Since
Been
Diet
London style is individual.
Mary Quant
Style
London
Individual
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
Mary Quant
Age
Young
Clothes
Way
Like
Because
Always
Were
Very
Young Age
Designed
Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever.
Mary Quant
Hair
Changed
Forever
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.
Mary Quant
Fashion
World
First
Carrying
City
Wearing
Hats
About
Opened
New
Ideas
Bowler
Tightly
New Ideas
Still
Were
Shop
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
Mary Quant
Myself
Seen
Daughter
Degrees
Always
Teachers
Comparison
Two
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.
Mary Quant
Design
Complete
One Thing
Head
Look
Line
Toe
Thing
Started
I don't have birthdays.
Mary Quant
Birthdays
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.
Mary Quant
Good
Greedy
Sugar
Gave
Eat
Look
Because
Always
Years
Years Ago
Up
Want
Cream
Butter
Watched
I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes.
Mary Quant
Black
Shoes
Worn
City
Fabrics
Masculine
Checks
Prince
Liked
Tights
Wales
For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.
Mary Quant
Fashion
Design
One Thing
Colour
Stuff
Adviser
Am
Still
Working
Thing
I have an awful lot of energy.
Mary Quant
Energy
Lot
Awful
Awful Lot
I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.
Mary Quant
Work
Think
More
Than
Just
Really
Working
Fun
Imagine
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