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
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.
good people
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
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.
people
People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
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.
caused people
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
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.
bored people matter
All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored first
thinking lazy-people want
Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.
fashion people feels
Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.
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.
school
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.
high sixties spirits
Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.
bowler carrying opened tightly wearing
When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion.