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One of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century remembered as the mother of the miniskirt

With her PVC raincoats, pinafores and sky-high hemlines, Mary Quant changed the landscape of British fashion forever

Mary Quant, the British designer who revolutionized fashion and epitomized the style of the Swinging Sixties — a playful, youthful ethos that spr

Known as the mother of the mini skirt, she epitomised London’s Swinging Sixties.

Twiggy, Pattie Boyd and Esme Young have offered their tributes to trailblazing fashion designer Dame Mary Quant following her death aged 93.

“It wasn’t me or Courrèges who invented the mini-skirt – it was the girls in the street,” said Mary Quant of the revolutionary hemline she is widely credited with creating. The mini-skirt was launched on King’s Road and immortalised in the Swinging Sixties, with Quant putting its success down to genetics. “The Chelsea girl had the best legs in the world. She had the courage to wear it,” she said.

The British revolutionary fashion designer, who has died aged 93, was to clothes what The Beatles were to pop music.

Dame Mary Quant's son Orlando Plunkett-Greene was born in 1969. The fashion legend and the late Alexander Plunkett-Greene had a kid together.

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

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