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Dame Barbara Mary Quant DBE CH FCSD RDI (11 February 1930 – 13 April 2023) was a British fashion designer and icon. [2] [3] She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements, and played a prominent role in London's Swinging Sixties culture.
Apr 13, 2023 · Model Twiggy Lawson has led the tributes to designer Dame Mary Quant, who has died aged 93. The fashion legend passed away "peacefully at home in Surrey", her family announced on Thursday. Dame...
Inventive, opinionated and commercially minded, Mary Quant (1930 – 2023) was the most iconic fashion designer of the 1960s. A design and retail pioneer, she popularised super-high hemlines and other irreverent looks that were critical to the development of the 'Swinging Sixties' scene.
Mary Quant (born February 11, 1930, London, England—died April 13, 2023, Surrey, England) was an 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.”
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Apr 13, 2023 · Mary Quant, the British designer who revolutionized fashion and epitomized the style of the Swinging Sixties, a playful, youthful ethos that sprang from the streets, not a Paris atelier, died on...
Apr 15, 2023 · Mary Quant, who died this week at the age of 93, never took credit for inventing the mini. For that, she pointed to the young customers who mobbed her shop Bazaar on the King’s Road. Read Vogue’s full obituary for the revolutionary British designer.
Apr 13, 2023 · British fashion designer Mary Quant, credited with turning the miniskirt into a worldwide phenomenon, has died age 93, her family announced in a statement via the PA news agency.
