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My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.


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.


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.


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.


I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties.


In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.


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.


One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.


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.


My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.


People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'


Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.


London style is individual.


In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.


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.


I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?'


I love restaurants, and I love cooking.


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


I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.