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.
People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
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.
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.
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
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.
All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored first
Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.