Fashion designer Dame Mary Quant, who is credited with pioneering the mini skirt, has died aged 93
Caption: English fashion designer and fashion icon Mary Quant at the launch of her new range of neckwear, her first menswear collection, at the Savoy Hotel, London, UK, 12th September 1972; she is wearing silky bomber jacket, white shirt and polka dotted necktie.
Photographer: Central Press Provider: Getty Images Source: Hulton Archive, her family has said in a statement.It continued: “Dame Mary, aged 93, was one of the most internationally recognised Fashion Designers of the 20th Century and an outstanding innovator of the Swinging Sixties.”
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