'In the late 60s I lived at the end of the King’s Road. Sports materials such as Lycra were being invented and used by designers, and suddenly the figure was being shown, without being exposed. The argument going on within the art avant garde about the representation of the figure seemed to me the same as was going on in fashion. And you saw it developing week by week on the King’s Road. People were throwing down the gauntlet: hems went up, colours came and went. I would wheel my children round in their pushchair on a Saturday morning and watch this great street theatre. It fed my work as it also fed the ideas of lots of other people, including the new feminists.'