Mary Quant
Fashion designer
1934 –
Who is Mary Quant?
Mary Quant OBE, FCSD, RDI is a fashion designer and British fashion icon. She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements. She was one of the designers who took credit for the miniskirt and hot pants, and by promoting these and other fun fashions she encouraged young people to dress to please themselves and to treat fashion as a game. Ernestine Carter, an authoritative and influential fashion journalist of the 1950s and '60s, wrote: "It is given to a fortunate few to be born at the right time, in the right place, with the right talents. In recent fashion there are three: Chanel, Dior, and Mary Quant."
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- Born
- Feb 11, 1934
Blackheath, London - Spouses
- Alexander Plunkett-Greene
(1957 - )
- Alexander Plunkett-Greene
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Goldsmiths College
( - 1955)
- Goldsmiths College
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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