FASHION

Farewell to Mary Quant: the fashion legend who invented the miniskirt

The fashion world mourns the passing, today April 13 2023, of one of its most resplendent icons: the designer who is said to have invented the miniskirt in the 1960s has passed away at her home in Surrey Mary Quant,.

Called, the "high priestess of 1960s fashion" by the writer Bernard Levin, her impact on post-World War II British costumes made her famous worldwide. She herself, however, always declared that she was not the "mother" of the miniskirt, but that this recognition had to be shared with the very girls who frequented her first boutique.

They, in fact, were the ones who asked Quant for shorter skirts and more comfortable dresses. Breaking the news of her passing was her family through a news agency. She was 93 years old.

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Farewell to Mary Quant: the fashion legend who invented the miniskirt
The fashion world mourns the passing today, April 13, 2023, of one of its most resplendent icons: the designer who is said to have invented the miniskirt in the 1960s has passed away at her home in Surrey Mary Quant,. Called, the "high priestess of 1960s fashion" by the writer Bernard Levin, her impact on post-World War II British costumes made her famous worldwide. She herself, however, always declared that she was not the "mother" of the miniskirt, but that this recognition had to be shared with the very girls who frequented her first boutique. They, in fact, were the ones who asked Quant for shorter skirts and more comfortable dresses. Breaking the news of her passing was her family through a news agency. She was 93 years old.
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Mary Quant has died
She has died at the age of 93, at her home in Surrey, the designer Mary Quant, best known for being considered the "mother of the miniskirt," a garment that started to depopulate worldwide beginning in the 1960s.
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A free soul since adolescence
At just 16, Mary left home to live as a Bohemian on the streets of London. In 1955, she managed to open her first boutique, called Bazaars, in 1995, on the first floor of the house she had bought with Alexander Plunket Greene, a member of an English noble family and grandson of Bertrand Russell.
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The memory of the family
As reported by Repubblica, her family remembers her as 'one of the most internationally recognised designers of the 20th century and an outstanding innovator. She opened her first Bazaar shop in Kings Road in 1955 and her forward-thinking and creative talent quickly made a unique contribution to British fashion'.
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The English honorific
In 1966, now famous thanks to her work and expanding thanks to her entrepreneurial skills, which had enabled her to open a second shop in the aristocratic Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, she received directly from Queen Elizabeth II the honour of Knight of the British Crown, which had been given the year before to her idols: The Beatles.
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Mary Quant's strength
Mary Quant's fortune was based first and foremost on her ability to speak the language of her era, to interpret and share the tastes of her generation, and finally to bring out a deep desire for emancipation. This led her to invent the miniskirt, a garment that the women of the time themselves demanded in favour of the new reappraisal of the costumes of the 1960s.
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How the miniskirt became fashionable
Just as the worldwide popularisation of the trouser for ladies is due to Chanel, the spread of the miniskirt is due to the British designer herself, having it worn by a 17-year-old hairdresser, Leslie Hornby, known as Twiggy (breadstick), forerunner of the teen ager supermodels.
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