Exhibition Gallery £6 - £10.50 ... Mary Quant and Alexander Plunket Greene by John Cowan, 1960 (John Cowan Archive) Photograph of two models in Mary Quant, Spring 1973 .
After gaining a Diploma in Art Education from Goldsmiths, Quant began an ap
She went to Blackheath High School, then studied illustration at Goldsmiths College. Quant believed in fashion for the masses – you could even sew her designs yourself from Butterick patterns.
Her clothes, as they became widely available, expressed the disruption of class hierarchy as well as gender roles.”Part of the strength of the Quant brand was that she did so much of the modelling herself (as had Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli before her – both of whom were inspirations).Photographs of Quant, with her 1920s-bobbed hair, show how she liked to keep a woman’s upper half demure: Peter Pan collars, rollnecks, zip-ups. Quant played an important role in the youth fashion and London-based Mod movements in 1960s. These memories – which now seem so distant – flooded back to me when the images promoting the V&A’s delayed Mary Quant exhibition appeared in the media in all their resplendent glory in anticipation of the museum’s re-opening on Thursday.
She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based For a while in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Quant was one of only two London-based high-end designers consistently offering youthful clothes for young people.In addition to the miniskirt, Quant is often credited with inventing the coloured and patterned In 2000, she resigned as director of Mary Quant Ltd, her cosmetics company, after a Japanese buy-out.She met her future husband and business partner, Alexander Plunket Greene, in 1953.General Register Office of England and Wales, Births, March quarter 1930, Woolwich, Vol 1d, p. 1570.EPIC 5-10098, "Mellow Yellow/Sunny South Kensington" 45 rpm single, 1966. Quant became a public figure and, as Lister says, “expressed the way in which women’s lives were parting from traditional stereotypes. Mary Quant, English dress designer of youth-oriented fashions, responsible in the 1960s for the “Chelsea look” of England and the widespread popularity of the miniskirt and “hot pants.” Quant attended Goldsmith’s College of Art, London, and spent two years designing hats for the Danish milliner Her clothes provided a language to express the empowerment of women at a time when words like sexism had barely been invented.” The designs were also Quant’s personal rebellion, her way of avoiding becoming a grammar school teacher (the fate her university-educated parents, who hailed from Welsh mining families, had imagined for her when they raised her in Blackheath, London).Quant became an apprentice at a Mayfair milliners after leaving Goldsmiths. The V&A Dundee has reopened this week with a new show celebrating the work of 1960s fashion designer Mary Quant.
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Like Peter Pan, her clothes do not grow old.Lister, asked about her legacy, says: “You wouldn’t bat an eyelid if someone wore With Quant, then and now turn out to mean the same thing.Mary Quant having her hair cut by Vidal Sassoon, 1964.Mary Quant having her hair cut by Vidal Sassoon, 1964.ast year, while staff at the V&A were researching its Mary Quant (centre foreground) launches her footwear collection, 1967.Mary Quant fits a zip-up mini dress on a model in her design studio in London, 1967. Her parents, Jack and Mildred Quant were both from mining families; however, they had been awarded scholarships to grammar school and had both attained first-class degrees at Cardiff University before they moved to London to work as school teachers.
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“They reflected the sense of freedom that we felt at the time – shorter skirts allowed mobility, to run, jump and to have fun in. Lister suggests that Quant’s “generosity and drive to make fashion accessible through mass production reflects a better quality of life becoming more available in the postwar period.
In 1963, a “Snob” pinafore dress cost six guineas – the equivalent of just over £100.
“I loved wearing the clothes which I designed for like-minded friends and for myself,” she tells me by email.
She was born on February 11th, 1934. Fashion was no longer about couture, it was about expressing individuality.”She saw that fashion “anticipates” and her design revolution grew out of a drab, postwar Britain on the brink of social change. Her exuberant clothes catered to women’s new sense of freedom in the 60s and a V&A retrospective shows Mary Quant is as relevant as everAt 89, Quant still sticks to her original line. Mary Quant amassed a lot of fortune from her profession as a designer. From 1962 onwards, her clothes were produced in democratic multiples of 1,000, but many of the details did not seem mass-produced at all: groovy zips, contrasting top-stitching, tapering sleeves. As I get bored quickly, I was always seeking fresh inspirations so if they worked on me, then they would provide fashion for everyone who enjoyed the styling, the crazy accessories and the cosmetics.”Lister emphasises Quant’s prescience: “She used clothes to demonstrate that change was coming.
These were feel-good designs for women – to give them freedom, to enhance their lives.Having said that, her clothes were not friendly to the curvaceous.