Twiggy, the miniskirt, hot pants, gender-fluid fashion, PVC rain gear, and easy-to-wear fabrics. We salute and thank you, Dame Barbara Mary Quant Plunket Greene, the beloved fashion icon Mary Quant, for all you have done for women and their fashion sensibilities since the 1950s. Quant, according to the press release, died Thursday peacefully at home in Surrey, United Kingdom.
The style icon liberated a generation of women long into the future with short hems and bold, colorful patterns, with menswear fabrics for feminine silhouettes, with a bravery of innovation that was unique in her era. Her visionary contributions to the “youth quake” of the '60s included statement-making skirt hems, colorful and bold designs, a makeup line that’s currently still big in Japan, and the forerunner to today’s modern fashion boutique—hers on King’s Road was called Bazaar.
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