January 22, 2020
Mary Quant: The Mother of Working Fashion
Mary Quant: Grand Dame of modern fashion has been enjoying a long overdue and well deserved exhibition of her work spanning the period 1955 to 1975 at London's V&A Museum. This exhibition highlights how she revolutionised fashion in the 1960s. Designing easy to wear, practical clothes, for the modern, and ever increasing numbers of, working women. Her deigns moved away from the formality of the couture-bound 1950s, where daughters would follow their mother's to her dressmaker (and look like a mini-version of them), into a new sphere of fast fashion. ...