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
adviser design
For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.
work
I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.
hard staying work
I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it.
pan peter school
I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.
diet
I have been on a diet since 1962.
liked masculine prince wales worn
I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes.
countries
I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.
bowler carrying opened tightly wearing
When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion.
creators
The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.
fashion clothes fashionable
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
fashion today alive
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
giving risk important
Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.
fashion people feels
Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.
rain flower paper
Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.