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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.
British fashioner designer Mary Quant, who popularized the miniskirt and set the tone and look of the Swinging '60s, dies at 93. ... Her family said Quant died “peacefully at home” in Surrey ...
Born in south-east London on February 11 1930, Dame Mary was the daughter of two Welsh school teachers. She gained a diploma in the 1950s in Art Education at Goldsmith’s College, where she met ...
Mary Quant has died. The iconic fashion designer's family told multiple outlets that she died at her home in Surrey, England, on Thursday. She was 93.Quant and her eventual husband, Alexander ...
Vidal Sassoon CBE (17 January 1928 – 9 May 2012) was a British hairstylist and businessman. He was noted for repopularising a simple, close-cut geometric hairstyle called the five-point cut, worn by famous fashion designers including Mary Quant and film stars such as Mia Farrow, Goldie Hawn, Cameron Diaz, Nastassja Kinski and Helen Mirren.
Daisy was released in the UK in 1973, with the tag line "Mary Quant makes Daisy the best dressed doll in the world". Her name was a reference to Mary Quant's logo , a daisy flower . The doll was manufactured in the 1970s in Hong Kong by Model Toys Ltd, in connection with Flair Toys Ltd. Flair Toys Ltd went out of business in 1980, but Daisy ...
April 13, 2023 at 10:55 AM. Mary Quant in Stockholm, Sweden 1968 (Alamy/PA) Dame Mary Quant, who has died aged 93, was credited with making fashion accessible to the masses with her sleek ...
Mary Quant, OBE, FCSD is a fashion designer and fashion icon. [2] [3] She was born in England to Welsh parents on 11 February 1934 and became instrumental in the 1960s mod fashion movement.