Mary Quant obituary: Pioneer of 60s high street fashion
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.
One noted commentator once compared her influence on fashion with that of designers such as Chanel and Dior. "I didn't like the clothes I had. I wanted sleeves with a puffier top on them and I wanted this and wanted that and I was trying to cut up the bedspread and make them. From then on, I never stopped.''
She won a scholarship to the prestigious Goldsmith's College where she failed to complete her course but did meet a future husband and business partner in fellow student Alexander Plunkett-Greene.She quit Goldsmith's to go and work for a milliner in Bond Street, while Plunkett-Greene eked out a precarious existence as a photographer.
Her clothes appealed to a new generation of women who had decided they did not want to dress like their mothers and, with the post-war economic recovery well underway, had the disposable income to indulge their tastes. She also became one of the first fashion designers to work with PVC producing a range of wet-look clothes that made the pages of all the best fashion magazines.In 1966 she was awarded an OBE for her contribution to fashion, arriving for her investiture in trademark miniskirt and black gloves.
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