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- Dame Barbara Mary Quant was a British fashion designer, inventor and entrepreneur, known worldwide as the inventor of the miniskirt.
lampoonmagazine.com/article/2023/04/14/mary-quant/History of the rise of the miniskirt and its originator Mary ...
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Apr 13, 2023 · Dame Mary’s mini-skirt hit mannequins in 1965. Whether she was truly the one to invent it has been debated for some time, but the fact that her work popularised these rising hemlines is...
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Apr 13, 2023 · She named the skirt after her favourite car and said it was invented by "the girls on King's Road" in a 2014 interview. David Bailey, 85, with some of the pictures he took of Mary...
Quant and the miniskirt. Jersey minidress by Mary Quant, late 1960s. The miniskirt, described as one of the defining fashions of the 1960s, [24] is one of the garments most widely associated with Quant. While she is often cited as the inventor of the style, this claim has been challenged by others.
Apr 13, 2023 · British fashion designer Mary Quant, credited with designing the miniskirt that helped to define the Swinging '60s, has died aged 93. Let's take a look back at her life in pictures.
Mary Quant, English fashion designer of youth-oriented fashions, responsible in the 1960s for the ‘Chelsea look’ of England and the widespread popularity of the miniskirt and ‘hot pants.’ She also directed a cosmetics business that she started in 1955 until its sale in 2000.
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Mary Quant has often been credited with 'inventing' the miniskirt – the most era-defining look of the 1960s. In reality, the introduction of 'above the knee' skirts was a gradual process. Contemporary photographs and surviving dresses show that it took until 1966 for skirts to become really short.
Apr 13, 2023 · Dame Mary Quant, who has died aged 93, designed miniskirts, patterned tights, hot pants and plastic raincoats which epitomised the look of swinging London in the 1960s.
