Tag: Mary Quant

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Fashion Icon Mary Quant

Mary Quant is the fashion designer most credited with creating the London-based Mod movement of the sixties.  This is quite relevant still today as so much of today’s retro movement in fashion is based on the mod looks she invented for such figures as Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton and Marianne Faithful..  This was also known as the Chelsea Girl look.   Even at age 77  Mary […]

Britain

Mod British Mary Quant Designs

If there is one designer in Britain that stands for mod-makeup and sixties fashion it is Mary Quant. The brand name of Mary Quant has been around since the sixties. Aside from make-up she is also one of the influential British designers that as presenting miniskirts and hot pants in the early 1960s.  She is considered to be absolutely influential in developing the course of […]