Fashion designer Dame Mary Quant who helped shape '60s style dies aged 93
The ‘outstanding innovator of the Swinging Sixties’ died peacefully at home, her family said
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The ‘outstanding innovator of the Swinging Sixties’ died peacefully at home, her family said
The south-east London designer famously declared she 'didn't have time to wait for women's lib' so began a fashion revolution to rescue young women from dour clothing.
The fashion stalwart was widely credited with popularising the mini skirt.
Dame Mary - the British queen of Swinging Sixties fashion who introduced miniskirts and hot pants to the world - changed the face of fashion forever and was described as 'brilliant' and 'revolutionary'.
British fashion revolutionary, Dame Mary Quant has passed away, aged 93. Lauded as the mini-skirt savant of the swinging sixties, she was best known for shortening hemlines and making the mini skirt the ‘It’ item for a new generation of young women.