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A miniskirt (sometimes hyphenated as mini-skirt, separated as mini skirt, or sometimes shortened to simply mini) is a skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level, normally no longer than 10 cm (4 in) below the buttocks; [1] and a dress with such a hemline is called a minidress or a miniskirt dress.
Ultra-modern US designer Rudi Gernreich was moved to shorten his skirts to mini length after seeing Courrèges's 1964 work, [41] and both designers were early advocates of bralessness. [42] [43] The designer perhaps most obviously influenced was fellow Balenciaga protegé Emanuel Ungaro.
Barbara Mary Quant was born on 11 February 1930 [10] [notes 1] in Woolwich, London, the daughter of Jack Quant and Mildred Jones.Her parents, who both came from Welsh mining families, had received scholarships to a grammar school and had been awarded first-class honours degrees at Cardiff University before moving to London to work as schoolteachers.
Here are additional clues for each of the words in today's Mini Crossword. NYT Mini Across Hints 1 Across: Hybrid utensil popularized by Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 1970s — HINT: It starts ...
Here are additional clues for each of the words in today's Mini Crossword. NYT Mini Across Hints 1 Across: Square on a wall calendar, or a fun thing you might put on the calendar — HINT: It ...
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Mini-skirt dress of black acetate jersey, designed by Azzedine Alaïa, Paris, 1985. Alaïa was honored with a solo exhibition at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands in 1998, which debuted at the Guggenheim Museum in New York [4] in 2000 and curated by Mark Wilson and Jim Cook.
The French designer André Courrèges was particularly influential in the development of space age fashion. The "space look" he introduced in the spring of 1964 included trouser suits, goggles, box-shaped dresses with high skirts, and go-go boots. Go-go boots eventually became a staple of go-go girl fashion in the 1960s. [33]