The fashion icon was credited with popularizing the miniskirt in the 1960s.
:"RIP Dame Mary Quant. A leader of fashion but also in female entrepreneurship- a visionary who was much more than a great haircut."
Soon, Quant's miniskirts, which she named after her favorite car, brightly-colored tights, and go-go boots were the style to be seen in."It was the girls on King's Road who invented the mini. I was making clothes which would let you run and dance and we would make them the length the customer wanted. I wore them very short and the customers would say, 'shorter, shorter,'" she said.
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