Without Ms Quant, the mini would not have become an icon of 1960s youth rebellion. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON – Fashion designer Mary Quant, the style queen of Britain’s Swinging Sixties who popularised the miniskirt, died on Thursday aged 93, her family said.
The diminutive designer – who always wore her hair in a bob – was also credited with creating hot pants, the skinny-rib sweater and waterproof mascara.“It’s impossible to overstate Ms Quant’s contribution to fashion,” it said on Twitter. “She represented the joyful freedom of 1960s fashion, and provided a new role model for young women.”Ms Quant was not just a “leader of fashion but also in female entrepreneurship, a visionary who was much more than a great haircut,” she said.
The whole Chelsea district was soon attracting celebrities such as the actors Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn and pop stars like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. “City gents in bowler hats beat on our shop window with their umbrellas shouting ‘Immoral!’ and ‘Disgusting!’ at the sight of our miniskirts over the tights, but customers poured in to buy,” she recalled in her 1966 book “Quant by Quant”.
She entered the American market in the early 1960s, collaborating with department store JC Penney. She also created the cheaper Ginger Group line and went into cosmetics, all her designs featuring a trademark daisy.
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