Mary Quant was one of the best-known designers of the Swinging Sixties, a creative and commercial trailblazer who put London fashion on the world map.
Synonymous with defining styles of the era, including the miniskirt and hot pants, her colorful and unashamedly sexy clothes for a drastically changing world were adored as much by celebrities like Twiggy and Audrey Hepburn as they were by young girls on the street with new feelings of freedom. Emerging at the time of feminism’s second wave (after suffrage), Ms. Quant, who died on Thursday at 93, helped wipe out British postwar drabness and create a bold new way of dressing.
Bazaar, the King’s Road store
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