Mary quant mini skirt

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1966: Mary Quant shows off her O.B.E. award (Order of the British Empire)

Liberation was at the top of the agenda for her 1960s customers, and the British fashion designer helped them achieve it. From athleisure to workwear to gender fluidity, here’s how she influences the world today

Jocelyn Lane in HELL'S BELLES 1969

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Whenever one thinks of the mini skirt, Mary Quant usually springs to mind, and the sixties. The two are intrinsically linked and set the fashion world on

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MARY QUAN7 English fashion designer at her Knightsbridge boutique Bazaar in 1967 with the winner of a Dutch teenage magazine contest. Stock Photo

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The miniskirt was popularized by Mary Quant, who introduced the skirt at her London boutique Bazaar in 1964. Defined as a skirt with a hemline averaging halfway up the knee (and four inches below the butt!), it made fashion history because it showed more leg on a woman, helped democratize fashion and fueled a movement for women's social and sexual liberation that began in the 1960s.

British fashion designer Mary Quant, who designed the miniskirt that defined the 60s, has died.

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Style isn’t just a story of who you are now in this moment and how you choose to express yourself, but the story of everything that preceded this moment.

Mary Quant hessian dress with matching hat and black polo-necked jumper, London, 1965.

For nostalgic Brits, nothing can trump the music, fashion and sporting successes of the Sixties as they vote it the best of all the past eight decades.