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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.

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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.

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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.

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I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.

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

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

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A woman is as young as her knees.

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

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Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.

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People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Designer

Born: February 11th, 1934

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