Mary Quant
Mary Quant
Dame Barbara Mary Quant, Mrs Plunket Greene, DBE, FCSD, RDIis a Welsh fashion designer and British fashion icon...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth11 February 1934
school
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.
change reaching
Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better.
compete fashion knowing life looks outside people react tool
Fashion is a tool . . . to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.
appeared unlike
One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.
became bit faded muddled power running sort
The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.
creators
The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.
half simply
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
changing finished
I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.
market people public survey
In America, they never make anything without first having a market survey to ask the public what they want. People only ask for things they already know about, so you don't get anything new that way. That's why American fashion is stuck.
abandoning car drive family hot insist join july midnight parts streets tables
In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.
bus catch liked work
I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.
bored people matter
All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored first
vulgarity-is taste vulgarity
Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.
ideas gone ive-learned
One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.