A retrospective exhibition about London fashion designer and icon Dame Mary Quant opens at the V&A this week. Quant has become known as an iconic figure of 1960s London, synonymous with miniskirts ...

Mary Quant 's own Mary Quant brown wool squiggle dress, 1968. Mary Quant's Vivienne Westwood white cotton shirt from the spring 1992 "Salon" collection. Mary Quant's Chanel hats, circa 1989.

Mary Quant's Collections. Mary Quant’s designs were all about making clothes fun again. ... and the use of new materials and prints such as gingham, tartan, flannel and her famous wet-look PVC.

Mary Quant with models at the Quant Afoot footwear collection launch, 1967. PA Prints 2008 By 1957, Plunket Greene and Quant were married and Quant’s popularity as a designer was growing ...

PA Prints 2008. Mary Quant with models at the Quant Afoot footwear collection launch, 1967. Featured in “Mary Quant,” on view at the V&A in London through February 2020. 5.

The V&A has announced its next blockbuster fashion exhibition, Mary Quant, the first international retrospective of the designer in nearly 50 years. ... Photo: PA Prints 2008 Courtesy Of V&A Museum.

The exhibition Mary Quant runs from 6 April 2019 – 8 March 2020. Tickets will go on sale in Autumn 2018. More about Mary Quant Style trends Design V&A. Join our commenting forum.

Mary Quant, the visionary fashion designer whose colorful, sexy miniskirts epitomized Swinging London in the 1960s and influenced youth culture around the world, has died, her family said. She was 93.

Mary Quant, the British designer who revolutionized fashion and epitomized the style of the Swinging Sixties, a playful, youthful ethos that sprang from the streets, not a Paris atelier, died on ...