FASHION designer Dame Mary Quant has died aged 93.
Designer Mary Quant’s bright, skimpy clothing sent shockwaves through the nation and her slick Vidal Sassoon crop was the “It” haircut — copied by millions to this day.
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Famous for her miniskirts, hot pants and boldly coloured tights, Mary’s design motto was: “Be yourself, free yourself.”
Today her family announced she had passed away at the age of 93.
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A statement said she “died peacefully at home in Surrey, UK this morning”.
It continued: “Dame Mary, aged 93, was one of the most internationally recognised Fashion Designers of the 20th Century and an outstanding innovator of the Swinging Sixties.”
The daughter of Welsh teachers Jack and Mildred Quant, London- born Mary studied illustration at Goldsmiths College, London, then became an apprentice milliner in Mayfair.
She switched to fashion design and in 1955 she opened her first shop, Bazaar, on London’s Kings Road.
Rebelling against dreary Fifties styles, she sold “clothes that had nothing to do with our mothers”.
Mary is most famous for having brought the mini-skirt to the masses.
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