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
learnt
Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.
creators
The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.
ended gardens hoping life people returned revert ten war
Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities.
I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?'
people
People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
high sixties spirits
Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.
allowed clothes created freedom last moved people precious reason retain saw worked
I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.
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.
caused people
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned.
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.
along figure formative pill truly
As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.