Dame Mary Quant, daughter of Welsh teachers, Jack and Mildred, British fashion designer and  inventor of hotpants and miniskirts in 60s dies aged 93. Quant initially sold clothing from wholesalers in her new boutique in the Kings Road named Bazaar, initially working solo, and by 1966 she was working with a total of 18 manufacturers. Quant’s design revolutionised fashion from the utilitarian wartime standard of the late 1940s to the energy of the 1950s and 1960s’ cultural shifts. Quant was offering high-end designers for young people in swinging London and defined Britain’s “Swinging Sixties” and influenced youth culture around the world. The miniskirt described as one of the defining fashions of the 1960s. Skirts had been getting shorter since the 1950s, and had reached the knee by the early sixties, but Quant wanted them higher. In 1963 Quant  was the first winner of the Dress of the Year award in 1966 and was appointed the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Quant was made a Dame in 2014 pioneered bold new styles during the 1960sm She arrived at Buckingham Palace to accept the award in a cream wool jersey minidress with blue facings.

Victoria & Albert Musem in London said it was impossible to overstate her contribution:”She represented the joyful freedom of 1960s fashion and provided a new role for young women and fashion today owes so much to her trailblazing vision.

Model Pattie Boyd who wore Mary Quant designs to marry Beatle George Harrison in 1966 said “ Mary Quant was daringly creative, fun genius, much loved lady”.

Mary Quant, an inherent modernist, popularised the mini-skirt and made it shorter and after that she went and created hotpants by making it affordable for the youngsters as the sixties youthquake was expressed in her fun clothes.