I missed the peak of Mary Quant’s fashion revolution – but we all live in the glow of her legacy

Every creative person’s dream is to live long enough to see an exhibition held in your honour at one of the world’s great museums. To see tens thousands of women learning to sew your designs is just the icing on the cake

Jenny Eclair
Monday 14 October 2019 22:53 BST
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Mary Quant, famous for her designs, selects fabric in 1967
Mary Quant, famous for her designs, selects fabric in 1967

For so many of us, the name Mary Quant immediately conjures up the daisy logo that appeared on all her Quant products and is still as fresh as a… of course, that was always the point.

As a teenager in the north of England in the Seventies, I missed out on the heyday of Quant clothes; that all took place on Carnaby Street circa the mid-Sixties. But even a decade later, her influence was still felt in the boutiques of Blackpool – simple lines, bright colours, lots of shift dresses, plus the round-collared blouse with the puffed sleeves that you always managed to trail into your shepherd’s pie.

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