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MARY QUANT
Jenny Lister, V&A Publications, $59.99
efore Mary Quant burst upon the British, and subsequently global fashion scene, in the 1960s women in their 20s dressed like their mothers in twin-sets, pearls and tweed skirts. Quant’s clothes were architectural, mostly in neutral natural fabrics, although she used shiny black PVC with great panache. As she said herself, these stark creations “were curiously feminine”. Along with a few other mavericks on the Kings Road, Chelsea, she invented the miniskirt. Her co-creator of an entirely new breed of women was Vidal Sasson, the brutalist hairdresser who could make even the most winsome model look as if she was staring out from under the blade of a guillotine. Her fame was helped by peppy interviews. She told that she dyed her pubic hair green and her husband trimmed
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