Mary Quant
Mary Quant
Dame Barbara Mary Quant, Mrs Plunket Greene, DBE, FCSD, RDIis a Welsh fashion designer and British fashion icon...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth11 February 1934
age
I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.
The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned.
cream gave good watched
I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.
bus catch liked work
I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.
market people public survey
In America, they never make anything without first having a market survey to ask the public what they want. People only ask for things they already know about, so you don't get anything new that way. That's why American fashion is stuck.
caused people
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
change reaching
Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better.
compete fashion knowing life looks outside people react tool
Fashion is a tool . . . to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.
became bit faded muddled power running sort
The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.
good people
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
appeared unlike
One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.
school
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.
divide life mud open social space swinging time village work
I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties.
favourite mainly market
My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.