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Mary Quant in The Victoria and Albert Museum
Mary Quant with models, 1967. Photo © PA Prints 2008
Mary Quant with models, 1967. Photo © PA Prints 2008
Mary Quant, London, 1965. Photo © Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images
Left: The sketch of dress. Right: Patti Boyd with the Rolling Stones, 1960s. Photo © © Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is releasing a retrospective dedicated to Mary Quant’s work on April, 6 2019.
The exhibition will show how Mary made high fashion affordable for working women, and how her revolutionary clothes made British street style the global influence it remains today.
The British designer was the catalyst for the 60s fashion revolution and set the tone to the “Swinging Sixties” style. Quant the first to bring tops, the Peter Pan collar, hot-pants and colourful tights, short haircut and bright make-up into fashion. But it was the miniskirt for which Quant’s reign is remembered. In 1962 Mary Quant has created a collection completely consisting of mini-skirts, which caused a public outcry but was immediately accepted by the fashionistas. Jim Shrimpton, Twiggy, Verushka’s images are the symbol of the 1960-s fashion and style due in no small part to Mary Quant designs.
The exhibition will showcase more than 200 objects, created between 1955 and 1975. Many of these clothes and accessories are taken from Quant’s fashion archive and have never been on public display.
