Mary Quant

About Mary Quant

English fashion designer and British fashion icon best known for popularizing essential clothing items such as the tiny skirt and hot pants.

Dame Barbara Mary Quant, Mrs Plunket Greene, is a British fashion designer and fashion icon, who is of Welsh heritage. She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements. She was one of the designers who took credit for the miniskirt and hotpants, and by promoting these and other fun fashions she encouraged young people to dress to please themselves and to treat fashion as a game. Ernestine Carter, an authoritative and influential fashion journalist of the 1950s and 1960s, wrote: "It is given to a fortunate few to be born at the right time, in the right place, with the right talents. In recent fashion there are three: Chanel, Dior, and Mary Quant."

Occupation	Fashion designer
Spouse(s)	Alexander Plunket Greene (1957–1990, his death)
Other names	Barbara Mary Plunket Greene
Children	1 son
Born	Barbara Mary Quant, February 11, 1930, Blackheath, London, England
Education	Goldsmiths College

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Trivia

She became the first winner of the Dress of the Year Award in 1963.

Mary Quant before fame

Prior to becoming a designer, she studied Art Education at Goldsmiths College.

Achievement of Mary Quant

In 1963, she was the first woman to receive the Dress of the Year Award.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Mary Quant family life

At Goldsmiths, she met Alexander Plunkett-Greene, her future husband and business partner. From 1957 until his death in 1990, they were married.

Associations of Mary Quant

She attended Goldsmiths College in London, just like singer John Cale.

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