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'''Dame Barbara Mary Quant''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|
==Early life==
Barbara Mary Quant was born on 11 February 1930<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.biography.com/fashion-designer/mary-quant#synopsis | title=Mary Quant – Clothes, Miniskirt & Fashion | date=3 June 2020 | access-date=13 April 2023 | archive-date=13 April 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413125132/https://www.biography.com/fashion-designer/mary-quant#synopsis | url-status=live }}</ref><ref group="notes">The Mary Quant exhibition at the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in 2019–20 stated her year of birth as 1930, and that she became a student at [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths College]] around 1950. However, the sleeve to her own autobiography (2012) gives the year as 1934, a date that has been widely cited over the years. Obituaries in April 2023 seemed universally to have accepted that she was 93 when she died: in other words, that she was born on 11 February 1930.</ref> in [[Woolwich, London]], the daughter of Jack Quant and Mildred Jones. Her parents, who both came from Welsh mining families, had received scholarships to a grammar school and had been awarded [[first-class honours degree]]s at [[Cardiff University]] before moving to London to work as schoolteachers.<ref name=indepobit>{{Cite web|date=2023-04-13|title=Mary Quant: Mother of the miniskirt|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mary-quant-dies-miniskirt-carnaby-biography-b1995291.html|access-date=2024-01-20|website=The Independent|language=en|archive-date=13 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413204107/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mary-quant-dies-miniskirt-carnaby-biography-b1995291.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Designers">{{cite book|author1=Polan, Brenda|author2=Tredre, Roger|title=The Great Fashion Designer|url=https://archive.org/details/greatfashiondesi0000pola|url-access=registration|pages=[https://archive.org/details/greatfashiondesi0000pola/page/103 103]–04|publisher=Berg|location=New York|year=2009|isbn=978-1-84788-228-8}}</ref> She had a younger brother, John Antony Quant (who became a dental officer in the [[Royal Air Force]]), with whom she was evacuated to Kent during the [[Second World War]].<ref name=indepobit/>
Quant attended [[Blackheath High School]]. For college, her desire had been to study fashion; however, her parents dissuaded her from that course of study, and she instead studied [[illustration]] and art education at [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths College]] for which she received a degree in 1953. In pursuit of her love for fashion, after finishing her degree, she was apprenticed to [[Erik Braagaard]], a high-class [[Mayfair]] [[Hatmaking|milliner]] on [[Brook Street]] next door to [[Claridge's]] hotel.<ref name="Designers"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Mary Quant|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/features/1960s/fashion_designers/mary_quant/index.html|access-date=24 February 2011|work=[[Victoria and Albert Museum]] website|publisher=[[Victoria and Albert Museum]]|year=2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914124204/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/features/1960s/fashion_designers/mary_quant/index.html|archive-date=14 September 2009}}</ref><ref name=lisa>{{cite news|last=Armstrong|first=Lisa|title=Mary Quant: 'You have to work at staying slim – but it's worth it'|url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG9087300/Mary-Quant-You-have-to-work-at-staying-slim-but-its-worth-it.html|access-date=17 October 2013|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=17 February 2012|archive-date=6 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206033759/http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG9087300/Mary-Quant-You-have-to-work-at-staying-slim-but-its-worth-it.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Fashion career==
[[File:Mary Quant 'Rex Harrison' cardigan dress chosen as Dress of the Year, 1963.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.56|Mary Quant dress chosen as the [[Dress of the Year]] in 1963]]
Quant was introduced to [[Archie McNair]], who owned a photography business on the [[King's Road]], through a mutual friend. He and Alexander Plunket worked with Quant to purchase Markham House, the shopfront that would be the location of her clothing boutique, Bazaar. The two men both contributed financially to the project, and Markham House was purchased for £8,000. During the renovation, Quant worked to locate wholesale suppliers, with a salary of £5 per week.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Quant |first1=Mary |title=Quant by Quant |date=September 25, 2018 |publisher=V & A Publishing |isbn=978-1851779581}}</ref> Once the shop opened, Quant initially sold clothing sourced from wholesalers in her new boutique in the King's Road. The bolder pieces in her collection started garnering more attention from media like ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'', and an American manufacturer purchased some of her dress designs.<ref name="berg">{{cite book|last=DelaHaye|first=Amy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0_3qzO6NTqcC&pg=PA586|title=The Berg Companion to Fashion|publisher=Berg|year=2010|isbn=978-1847885630|editor1-last=Steele|editor1-first=Valerie|location=Oxford|pages=586–588}}</ref> Because of this attention and her personal love for these bolder styles, she decided to take designs into her own hands. Initially working solo, she was soon employing a handful of machinists; by 1966 she was working with a total of 18 manufacturers. A self-taught designer inspired by the culture-forward "Chelsea Set" of artists and socialites, Quant's designs were riskier than standard styles of the time.<ref name="V&A" /> Quant's designs revolutionised fashion from the utilitarian wartime standard of the late 1940s to the energy of the 1950s and 1960s' cultural shifts. She stocked her own original items in an array of colours and patterns, such as colourful [[tights]].<ref name="Tights">{{cite news |title=Mary Quant: How She Fought for Women's Rights With Colourful Tights |url=https://bloommagazine.uk/fashionbeauty/mary-quant-womensrights-tights |access-date=2 October 2022 |work=Bloom |archive-date=2 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002092845/https://bloommagazine.uk/fashionbeauty/mary-quant-womensrights-tights |url-status=live }}</ref>
Quant's impact did not just come from her unique designs; in her boutique she created a special environment, including music, drinks, and long hours that appealed to young adults.<ref>{{Cite
For a while in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Quant was one of only two London-based high-class designers consistently offering youthful clothes for young people.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Denza|first1=Vanessa|title=Interview with Vanessa Denza MBE|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/i/vanessa-denza-mbe/|publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum|access-date=2 June 2014|archive-date=17 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617185837/http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/i/vanessa-denza-mbe/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Waddell|first1=Gavin|title=How fashion works: couture, ready-to-wear, and mass production|date=2004|publisher=Blackwell Science|location=Oxford, UK|isbn=9781118814994|page=130|edition=Online-Ausg.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GX-uAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA130}}</ref> The other was [[Kiki Byrne]], who opened her boutique on the King's Road in direct competition with Quant.<ref name=obyrne>{{cite book|last1=O'Byrne|first1=Robert|title=Style city: how London became a fashion capital|date=2009|publisher=Frances Lincoln|location=London|isbn=9780711228955|page=14}}</ref>
In 1966, Quant was named one of the "fashion revolutionaries" in New York by ''[[Women's Wear Daily]]'', alongside [[Edie Sedgwick]], [[Tiger Morse]], [[Pierre Cardin]], [[Paco Rabanne]], [[Rudi Gernreich]], [[André Courrèges]], [[Emanuel Ungaro]], [[Yves Saint Laurent (designer)|Yves Saint Laurent]] and [[Baby Jane Holzer]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 April 1966 |title=Revolution In Fashion Reaction In New York: These Were The Revolutionaries |volume=112 |pages=4–5 |work=[[Women's Wear Daily]] |issue=74 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1564944345|id={{ProQuest|1564944345}} }}</ref>
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[[File:1960s Mary Quant minidress, green, purple and white jersey.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.68|Jersey minidress by Mary Quant, late 1960s]]
The miniskirt, described as one of the defining [[1960s in fashion|fashions of the 1960s]],<ref>{{cite book |first1=Ros |last1=Horton |first2=Sally |last2=Simmons |date=2007 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7LYLOj2APSsC&pg=PA170 |title=Women Who Changed the World |page=170|publisher=Quercus |isbn=9781847240262 }}</ref> is one of the garments most widely associated with Quant. While she is often cited as the inventor of the style, this claim has been challenged by others. [[Marit Allen]], a contemporary fashion journalist and editor of the influential "Young Ideas" pages for UK [[Vogue (British magazine)|''Vogue'']], firmly stated that another British fashion designer, [[John Bates (designer)|John Bates]], rather than Quant or André Courrèges, was the original creator of the miniskirt.<ref>{{cite web|title=Garments worn by Marit Allen|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/g/garments-worn-by-marit-allen/|publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum|access-date=12 July 2012|archive-date=2 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120802100521/http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/g/garments-worn-by-marit-allen/|url-status=live}}</ref> Others credit Courrèges with the invention of the style.<ref name=jess>{{cite news|last=Cartner-Morley|first=Jess|title=Chelsea girl who instigated a new era|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/02/audreygillan|access-date=12 July 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 December 2000|archive-date=11 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211135123/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/02/audreygillan|url-status=live}}</ref>
However, skirts had been getting shorter since the 1950s, and had reached the knee by the early sixties, but "Quant wanted them higher so they would be less restricting—they allowed women to run for a bus ... and were much, much sexier".<ref>{{cite book |last=Miles |first=Barry |author-link=Barry Miles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r8xbaIlrUREC&pg=PA194 |title=The British Invasion: The Music, the Times, the Era |page=194 |publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |year=2009|isbn=9781402769764 }}<!-- ISBN needed --></ref>
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[[File:Mary Quant toont haar zomerlaarzen op schoenenbeurs te Utrecht de show, Bestanddeelnr 922-2259.jpg|thumb|upright=0.63|Mary Quant minidress at a 1969 fashion show in the Netherlands]]
Quant later said: "It was the girls on the King's Road [during the "[[Swinging London]]" scene] who invented the miniskirt. I was making easy, youthful, simple clothes, in which you could move, in which you could run and jump and we would make them the length the customer wanted. I wore them very short and the customers would say, 'Shorter, shorter.'"<ref name="Designers"/> She gave the miniskirt its name, after her favourite make of car, the [[Mini]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Miles |first=Barry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r8xbaIlrUREC&pg=PA194 |title=The British Invasion: The Music, the Times, the Era |page=203 |publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |year=2009|isbn=9781402769764 }}<!-- ISBN needed --></ref> and said of its wearers: "They are curiously feminine, but their femininity lies in their attitude rather than in their appearance ... She enjoys being noticed, but wittily. She is lively—positive—opinionated."<ref name="seebohm19710719">{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-MCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34|title=English Girls in New York: They Don't Go Home Again|work=New York|date=19 July 1971|access-date=6 January 2015|author=Seebohm, Caroline|page=34}}</ref> The fashion model [[Twiggy]] popularised the miniskirt abroad.<ref name="Courier">{{cite news
In addition to the miniskirt, Quant is often credited with inventing the coloured and patterned tights that tended to accompany the garment, although their creation is also attributed to the Spanish couturier [[Cristóbal Balenciaga]], who offered [[harlequin]]-patterned tights in 1962,<ref name=jess/><ref>{{cite book|last=Carter|first=Ernestine|title=The Changing World of Fashion: 1900 to the Present |year=1977|publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson|location=London|isbn=9780297773498|pages=213|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AkdEAAAAYAAJ&q=Balenciaga+harlequin}}</ref> or to John Bates.<ref name="bates">{{Cite book |last=Lester |first=Richard |year=2008 |title=John Bates: Fashion Designer |url=https://archive.org/details/johnbatesfashion0000lest |url-access=registration |location=Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK |publisher=ACC Editions |page=[https://archive.org/details/johnbatesfashion0000lest/page/42/mode/2up?q=tights 42] |isbn=9781851495702 |oclc=232982751}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2023}}<!-- There is nothing in the book stating that Bates created the tights per se; the other mention is on page 57: https://archive.org/details/johnbatesfashion0000lest/page/56/mode/2up?q=tights. -->
==Later career==
In the late 1960s, Quant offered miniskirts that were the forerunner of hotpants and became a British fashion icon.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mary Quant profile|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1966/fashion3.shtml|quote=Quant was responsible for hot pants, the Lolita look, the slip dress, PVC raincoats, smoky eyes and sleek bob haircuts, but it was make-up that eventually made her company the most money.|access-date=9 January 2011|work=[[BBC]] website|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=November 2008|archive-date=27 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110627122824/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1966/fashion3.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Hillary Alexander|date=9 January 2009|title=Fashion designer Mary Quant to have design included on Royal Mail stamps|url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG4209776/Fashion-designer-Mary-Quant-to-have-design-included-on-Royal-Mail-stamps.html|access-date=9 July 2020|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London, UK|quote=Apart from the mini, Quant is credited with popularising white "go-go" boots, patterned tights, {{Sic|hide=y|brightly|-}}coloured "Paintbox" make-up, the micro-mini skirt, plastic raincoats, the "wet look", and hot-pants, which she designed in 1966, the year she received an OBE from the Queen for her services to the fashion industry.|archive-date=23 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223054402/http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG4209776/Fashion-designer-Mary-Quant-to-have-design-included-on-Royal-Mail-stamps.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Milford-Cottam |first1=Daniel |title=Fashion in the 1960s |date=2020 |publisher=Shire Publications |isbn=9781784424084 |pages=16–17|quote =Some of the shortest [miniskirts] were provided by Bates and Quant, who tempered the briefness by offering matching tights or shorts to wear underneath. These shorts, effectively modesty knickers [...] foreshadowed the hotpants of the early 1970s.}}</ref> In 1967 she designed [[beret]]s in twelve colours for British headwear company [[Kangol]].<ref name="V&A">{{cite news
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In 1988, Quant designed the interior of the Mini (1000) Designer (originally dubbed the Mini Quant, the name was changed when popularity charts were set against having Quant's name on the car). It featured black-and-white striped seats with red trimming. The seatbelts were red, and the driving and passenger seats had Quant's signature on the upper left quadrant. The steering-wheel had Quant's signature [[Bellis perennis|daisy]] and the bonnet badge had "Mary Quant" written over the signature name. The headlight housings, wheel arches, door handles and bumpers were all "nimbus grey", rather than the more common chrome or black finishes. Two thousand were released in the UK on 15 June 1988, and a number were also released on to foreign markets; however, the numbers for these are hard to come by. The special edition Mini came in two body colours, jet black and diamond white.<ref name="Courier"/>
In 2000, she resigned as director of Mary Quant Ltd, her cosmetics company, after a Japanese buy-out.<ref name=gillan>{{cite news|last=Gillan|first=Audrey|title=Mary Quant quits fashion empire|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/02/audreygillan|access-date=12 July 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 December 2000|archive-date=11 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211135123/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/02/audreygillan|url-status=live}}</ref> There are more than 200 Mary Quant Colour shops in Japan.<ref name="gillan" />
==Personal life==
Quant met her future husband and business partner, Alexander Plunket Greene, grandson of the Irish singer [[Harry Plunket Greene]], in 1953.<ref name=lisa/> They were married from 1957 until his death in 1990,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Horwell|first=Veronica|date=2023-04-13|title=Dame Mary Quant obituary|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/apr/13/dame-mary-quant-obituary|access-date=2023-04-14|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=14 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414030310/https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/apr/13/dame-mary-quant-obituary|url-status=live}}</ref> and had a son, Orlando, born in 1970.<ref name="Sky News"/>
Quant died at home in [[Surrey]] on 13 April 2023, aged 93.<ref name="Sky News">{{Cite web |title=Fashion designer Mary Quant dies aged 93 |url=https://news.sky.com/story/fashion-designer-mary-quant-dies-aged-93-12855489 |access-date=13 April 2023 |publisher=Sky News |language=en |archive-date=13 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413120805/https://news.sky.com/story/fashion-designer-mary-quant-dies-aged-93-12855489 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Dame Mary Quant: Fashion designer dies aged 93 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65265531 |access-date=13 April 2023 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=13 April 2023 |language=en |archive-date=13 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413121047/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65265531 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Honours and recognition==
{{Quote box|width=27%|align=right|quote="She was the godmother of the youth movement in fashion, the first to realise that how women dressed needed to change."|source=—Jenny Lister, curator of textiles and fashion at the V&A<ref name="Courier"/>}}
In 1963, Quant was the first winner of the [[Dress of the Year]] award. In the [[1966 Birthday Honours]] she was appointed [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE).<ref>UK list: {{London Gazette|issue=44004|date=3 June 1966|pages=6542|supp=y}}</ref> She arrived at [[Buckingham Palace]] to accept the award in a cream wool jersey minidress with blue facings.<ref>{{cite web|title=O.B.E. Dress by Mary Quant|
In 1990 she won the Hall of Fame Award of the [[British Fashion Council]].
She was appointed [[Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (DBE) in the [[2015 New Year Honours]] for services to British fashion.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61092 |supp=y|page=N8|date=31 December 2014}}</ref><ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/391413/New_Year_Honours_List_2015.pdf 2015 New Year Honours List] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102104907/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/391413/New_Year_Honours_List_2015.pdf |date=2 January 2015 }}, Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 31 December 2014.</ref> She was appointed [[Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour]] (CH) in the [[2023 New Year Honours]] for services to fashion.<ref name="GazetteCH">{{London Gazette|issue=63918|supp=y|page=N6|date=31 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=30 December 2022 |title=New Year Honours 2023: Brian May and Lionesses on list |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64125449 |access-date=30 December 2022 |archive-date=30 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230224942/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64125449 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Quant received an honorary doctorate from [[Heriot-Watt University]] in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www1.hw.ac.uk/annual-review/2006/people_awards.html |title=Annual Review 2006 : People, Honours and Awards |website=www1.hw.ac.uk |access-date=30 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413051238/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/annual-review/2006/people_awards.html |archive-date=13 April 2016 }}</ref> In 2009, the miniskirt designed by Quant was selected by the [[Royal Mail]] for their [[Great Britain commemorative stamps 2000–2009|"British Design Classics" commemorative postage stamp]] issue.<ref>{{cite news |title=In pictures: Royal Mail's British design classic stamps |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/jan/13/stamps-british-design-classics |date=13 January 2009 |access-date=30 September 2022 |work=The Guardian |archive-date=11 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011172147/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/jan/13/stamps-british-design-classics |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2012, she was among the [[Culture of the United Kingdom|British cultural icons]] selected by artist Sir [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]] to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his lifetime.<ref>{{cite news|title=New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake's 80th birthday|url=
Quant was a [[Fellow#Learned or professional societies, or speciality training|fellow]] of the [[Chartered Society of Designers]], and winner of the Minerva Medal, the society's highest award.<ref>{{cite news|title=These were the days that shook the world|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jan/20/review.features7|newspaper=The Guardian|date=5 October 2016|access-date=5 November 2016|archive-date=5 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105162122/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jan/20/review.features7|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last1=Quant |first1=Mary |last2=Green |first2=Felicity |year=1984 |title=Colour by Quant |publisher=Treasure |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cs7MhlorRqkC |isbn=978-1-85051-265-3}}
* {{cite book |last1=Quant |first1=Mary |last2=Barrymore |first2=Maureen |last3=King |first3=Dave |year=1996 |title=Classic Make-up & Beauty |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JbtWnr86PX4C |series=DK Living Series |publisher=DK Pub. |isbn=978-0-7894-3294-0}}
* {{cite book |last=Quant |first=Mary |year=1996 |title=Quant by Quant: The Autobiography of Mary Quant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FuOXswEACAAJ |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |isbn=978-1-85177-958-1}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Green |first=Penelope |date=13 April 2023 |title=Mary Quant, British Fashion Revolutionary, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/fashion/mary-quant-dead.html |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |access-date=13 April 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=13 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413125713/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/fashion/mary-quant-dead.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* {{cite book |last=Quant |first=Mary |title=Ultimate Make-up & Beauty |year=1996 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lOkfVrOUcTIC |publisher=Firefly Books, Limited |isbn=978-1-55209-080-0}}
* {{cite book |last=Quant |first=Mary |year=2011 |title=Mary Quant Autobiography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sNPHZh7mDkAC |publisher=Headline |isbn=978-0-7553-6338-4}}
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