![]() ![]() In the year 2000, Mary was reassigned as the director of her cosmetic company, Mary Quant Cosmetics Ltd after the Japanese took over. She also joined the Chartered Society of Designers as a member and bagged the society’s highest award, the Minerva Medal. The special edition of Quant’s mini cars were produced in two colors diamond white and jet black. Quant also got a chance to design the interior of the car, Mini which had black and white striped and red trimming along with red colored seatbelts. She also focused on making makeup and household goods rather than just clothes between the decade of 60s and 70s. In 1960s, Quant designed the ‘hot pants’ which once again became an iconic piece in the history of fashion. ![]() Discover Mary Quant's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Skirts were usually quite long in the 1950s but Quant cut them down to size reasonably and turned them into an everyday must-have liberating women enough to catch buses. Mary Quant (Barbara Mary Quant) was born on 11 February, 1934 in London, England, UK, is a Costume Department. Known as the first one to design miniskirts, this was the defining moment in the 1960s fashion and her career too. By 1966, Quant was teaming up with twenty big manufacturers concurrently. Soon she had to hire workers in order to cope with the rising demand of her clothes. A rebellious art-school graduate who once dyed. ![]() Quant’s early success can be attributed to the ‘mad’ pajamas she designed which made their way to the cover of Harper’s Bazaar along with sweaters and dresses having collars made of shiny white plastic. The British fashion designer shook up the industry in the 1960s with her savvily marketed, mass-produced clothes that women could actually move in. The first shop got a pretty good response from the customers and so Quant opened her second shop after two years which was designed by Terence Conran. Mary’s career was off to a great start when the husband and wife duo teamed up with photographer, Archie McNair in November 1955 to open quant’s first store called Bazaar on King’s Road in London. ![]()
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