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Dame Mary Quant - who died peacefully at home in Surrey today aged 93 - began a fashion revolution, raising hemlines to audacious heights.

Family says she was ‘an outstanding innovator of the Swinging Sixties’ and died peacefully at home

Mary Quant the style icon who changed the face of 60s fashion and is credited for inventing the mini skirt, has passed away at the age of 93.

Queen of Britains Swinging Sixties fashion Dame Mary Quant has died aged 93.

Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, David Bailey and Audrey Hepburn flocked to her Chelsea shop, Bazaar, where she sold fun and unabashedly sexy clothes

British miniskirt pioneer Mary Quant dies aged 93: family

The south-east London designer famously declared she didnt have time to wait for womens lib so began a fashion revolution to rescue young women from dour clothing.

The pioneering self-taught designer is hailed by many as the inventor of the mini-skirt

Mary Quant, the fashion queen of Britain's Swinging Sixties who popularised the miniskirt, died on Thursday at the age of 93, her family said.

British fashion designer Mary Quant, who popularised the mini skirt during the 1960s, has passed away "peacefully" aged 93.