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Mary Quant My Autobiography: My Autobiography
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Mary Quant
Not many names epitomise an era, but Mary Quant is such a name. Her life, her ideas, her style touched (and still touch) everyone. Mary Quant is fashion. Most people connect Mary with one thing - the mini skirt - that ground-breaking design that is as potent now as it was when it first appeared in the early sixties. But her influence carried way beyond those early frenetic
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Hardcover
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304 pages
Published
February 16th 2012
by Headline
(first published September 1st 2011)
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Mary Quant is most famous for inventing the Mini-Skirt and Hot Pants. She defined fashion in the 1960′s like no other designer! Her autobiography is a collection of stories about her life. Each chapter a different topic. It is an interesting insight into Mary Quant’s world.
I would not say that she gave much away emotionally when telling her stories. She is somewhat guarded in letting you know how she felt about those close to her. Her family, friends and work collegues come in and out of her sto ...more
I would not say that she gave much away emotionally when telling her stories. She is somewhat guarded in letting you know how she felt about those close to her. Her family, friends and work collegues come in and out of her sto ...more
I loved this book especially the way the chapters are short and flit from subject to subject,not like a lot of biography books, which can become quite boring.
I've always loved mary quant despite been born in the late 60s,but i always remember my mum having the vidal sassoon 5 point haircut,and i had the daisy doll and the havoc doll as well. I use to love walking into woolworths and looking at the mary quant make up in its black containers with the daisy logo,it seemed so fresh and different. if ...more
Jul 09, 2012
Ginni
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biographies-autobiographies
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60-s-and-70-s
Fascinating and easy to read - for Quant, design was all enveloping and the sense of the visual comes through strongly. The descriptions of colour and line are very evocative of the 60s and my teenage years. She is mad about Alexander Plunkett Green, Chelsea, Japan, France - and the rise of 'career women.' How old fashioned that last phrase sounds now!
This reads more like a recollection of a life well lived with interesting (and at times short chapters) titles such as "The Floating Crap Game", "Dinner with Nureyev" and of course "Styling the Mini". A breeze to read, like a favourite aunt telling you about her glamorous past life.
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