Mary Quant

London designer Mary Quant was not only an iconic fashion design but also the imortal creator of the miniskirt. Mary had an artschool background and had been designing and manufacturing her own clothes since second half of the twentieth century. She was convinced that fashion needed to be affordable to be accessible to the young, she opened her own retail boutique, Bazaar, on the Kings Road in 1955, introducing the mod era and the Chelsea look.