Posted on 04/13/2023 11:19:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Fashion designer Dame Mary Quant has died at her home in Surrey, UK, according to her family. She was 93.
Synonymous with the Swinging Sixties in London, she helped make hot pants, miniskirts and Vidal Sassoon bobs essential to the era's look. While still in her 20s, Quant opened an influential shop on Kings Road that evolved into a global fashion brand.
The daughter of Welsh schoolteachers in London, Quant was fascinated by fashion at an early age. Even as a child during World War II, she found the drab conventions around children's garments stifling.
Quant's parents did not approve of fashion as a vocation, so she attended art school at Goldsmiths College, studied illustration and met and married an aristocratic fellow student, Alexander Plunket Greene. With partner Archie McNair, they opened a business in Chelsea in 1955...
Quant helped elevate several of the era's top British models – Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy – and developed a line of makeup inspired partly by their unconventional application techniques, such as using blush on their lids.
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Would never have heard of her were it not for the Kinks:
Where have all the Swinging Londoners gone?
Ossie Clark and Mary Quant
And what of Christine Keeler,
John Stephen and Alvaro,
Where on earth did they all go?
Mr. Fish and Mr. Chow,
Yeah, I wonder where they all are now.
RIP.
I liked her designs, had some of her clothes. Looked good on me.
May she Rest in Peace.
from the Fashion song. that was a good one. I need to google it.
Rest in Peace, Mary Quant.
She kept the same hair style her entire life apparently. It really was a tired style.
It worked for Don King. In his line of work, in a photo of five or six big Black guys you always knew which was Mr. King.
Interesting side note. Mary Quant had help popularizing the minidress...
https://www.cnn.com/2012/11/01/sport/jean-shrimpton-melbourne-cup-fashion/index.html
Never wore one of those.
I was a maxi-skirt gal.
I loved her stuff.
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