From Twiggy To Audrey Hepburn, These Are Mary Quant’s Most Unforgettable Looks

The designs of Mary Quant – who has died at the age of 93 – are instantly recognisable. From her A-line dresses and PVC coats to her famous miniskirts, the queen of the Swinging Sixties was nearly single-handedly responsible for the modish look that became synonymous with the Chelsea Set.

In many ways, Quant was behind the democratisation of fashion, via her Bazaar store in west London, which she opened in 1955 at the age of 21. “It was the girls on the King’s Road who invented the mini,” she explained in the past. “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.’”

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Still, while Quant’s creations were for the everyday woman, it didn’t mean that a whole host of stars didn’t flock to the designer. Twiggy, of course, was a long-time muse, with the model famously photographed wearing Quant’s minidresses over the years, including in the pages of Vogue. “Before her designs, there were no real clothes for teenagers,” the model previously said, “If you look at girls in the ’50s, most of them are dressed like their mothers. She changed all of that.”

Alongside Twiggy, the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot and Jean Shrimpton were also pictured in Quant’s pioneering designs during the 1960s, while the designer even created the wedding day looks for The Beatles’s George Harrison and his wife Pattie Boyd.

Below, see some of Quant’s most unforgettable looks.