The 1960s Mini Skirt Mary Quant

Mary Quant, is a Welsh fashion designer and British fashion icon, who was instrumental in the 1960s mod fashion movement. Quant gained a diploma in Art Education from Goldsmith's College, London. She was one of the designers who took credit for the miniskirt.  The 1960s was a politically charged decade of revolution and change. In 1965 Quant gave the world her mini skirt and fashion fans went crazy for the liberation of legs- however hem lines had already started to rise slowly for a few decades before.

The miniskirt, described as one of the defining fashions of the 1960s, is one of the garments most widely associated with Quant. By 1963 the clothes were such a success that Quant opened a second branch of the shop in Knightsbridge. She launched the Ginger Group, a lower priced line designed to appeal to an even wider cliente. Famed for popularising, if not inventing, the mini skirt, in 1966 Quant was awarded the OBE.

A 1960 Mary Quant dress, on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

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http://theminiskirtrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/yesterday-today-and-tomorrow-twiggy/