Talking about my generation MARY QUANT’S FASHION REVOLUTION
Oct 24, 2021
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‘She was marrying into an upper-class family and she was considered a shop girl’
With her skinny-ribbed sweaters, key-hole dresses, go-go boots and geometric hairstyles, designer Mary Quant sure made an impact on the world in the 1960s.
At a time when women weren’t even allowed to have their own bank accounts in her native Britain, the young art school graduate burst onto the fashion scene like a supernova, changing the world’s sartorial landscape forever.
Out went the waist-clinching corsets,
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