How Mary Quant changed the way women dress: ‘She made us feel more comfortable and more liberated’
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telegraph.co.ukbum-skimming skirts, PVC coats and factory-made boots, shifted fashion’s focus from Parisian couturiers to young working women, is the subject of a new feature-length documentary in cinemas from next week.
Called Quant, it’s directed by Sadie Frost and includes contributions from fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and Jasper Conran and supermodel Kate Moss.
Together, they expound on the legacy of the woman who invented the mini skirt – and who named it after her favourite car.Quant herself burst onto the London scene in 1955 when she opened a boutique called Bazaar in Chelsea.
The documentary delves into her happy but relatively ordinary childhood, and how everything changed for the shy daughter of Welsh teachers when she won a place at.
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