Tribute to Mary Quant and the Swinging Sixties

by Chris Armytage

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Tribute to Mary Quant and the Swinging Sixties

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Chris Armytage

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Painting - Painting On Digital Canvas

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Tribute to Mary Quant and the Swinging Sixties is a colorful oil on canvas abstract painting Copyright 2023 ChrisArmytage, Photographic Artist, Australia.

Mary Quant (11 February 1930 – 13 April 2023) was a British fashion designer and fashion icon. She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements, and played a prominent role in London's Swinging Sixties culture. She was one of the designers who took credit for the miniskirt and hotpants. Ernestine Carter 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."

Quant said: "It was the girls on the King's Road during the "Swinging London" scene who invented the miniskirt. I was making easy, youthful, simple clothes, in which you could move, in which you could run and jump and we would make them the length the customer wanted. I wore them very short and the customers would say, 'Shorter, shorter.'" She gave the miniskirt its name, after her favourite make of car, the Mini, and said of its wearers: "They are curiously feminine, but their femininity lies in their attitude rather than in their appearance. She enjoys being noticed, but wittily. She is lively—positive—opinionated." The fashion model Twiggy would popularise the miniskirt abroad.

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April 15th, 2023

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