Alongside the Beatles, fashion designer Mary Quant was one of the pioneers of the 1960s “British invasion,” which saw the world go nuts for U.K. exports including the mini-skirt, which Quant is cre…
Despite three decades in the film industry, both as an actor and a producer, with her production company Blonde to Black Pictures, “Quant” is Frost’s first foray into directing. “I have a fashion background and I have a film background and I’m a woman and I know a lot of Mary’s peers and I know a lot of contemporary people in fashion,” Frost explains of how she boarded the project.
92-year-old Quant is still alive but wasn’t interviewed for the documentary, although whether that was because of COVID restrictions or because the designer is notoriously media shy isn’t clear The documentary, which went into production in January 2020, was certainly impacted by the pandemic. “We lost a lot of our older interviewees in the end because of COVID,” Frost says. “I was like, I’m never going to be able to ever get that dream line-up ever again.
“It’s changed dramatically since when I was first in the [entertainment] industry in the 90s,” Frost says, recalling how she was often the lone woman in the room, even at her own companies . “I was always in a very male [environment], I always felt quite out of place and not supported.”
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