A new exhibition on designer Mary Quant opens at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum today. Rachel Marie Walsh meets the curatorMary Quant’s first London retrospective since 1973 opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum this weekend. Her fashion and lifestyle products, sold at Clerys in Dublin in the 60s, are most associated with London when it swung and bring back happy memories for women all over the world. Her signature look: Sassoon-ed hair, a minidress, coloured tights and plastic rainwear, was simple but liberating. She totally revolutionised the way women dressed, with a little help from licensing deals and newly available mass production. “She was the godmother of the youth movement in fashion, the first to realise that how women dressed needed to change,” says Jenny Lister, curator of textiles and fashion at the V&A.The exhibition includes over 200 pieces, including unseen items from the designer’s personal archive.Not everyone gets nostalgic about style, time spent on the past can make for a secondhand present, as the late Karl Lagerfeld said, but Mary Quant is also super-contemporary. You probably have something quite Quant in your wardrobe right now, perhaps a shift dress, a Peter Pan-collared blouse or a miniskirt. She popularised… Read full this story
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