A retrospective on the miniskirt queen is on exhibition in London

Mary Quant was one of the designers who put London fashion on the map! In addition to being one of Swinging Sixties’ best-known designers, the Englishwoman became famous as the “queen of the miniskirt”. Now, it all can be seen in a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V & A) in London.

“Mary Quant grew up at a time when women were meant to dress like their mothers and went straight out of [school] uniform into pearls and twin sets, particularly in Britain”, said Jenny Lister, co-curator of the exhibition, for The New York Times. She tells us that “she [Mary Quant] helped wipe out British postwar drabness and create a bold new attitude to dressing.”

Quant’s work marked history. She was responsible for generating a fashion revolution, expanding the borders of what would be an ‘acceptable streetwear’, so there’s nothing more natural than taking her works to a museum. In all, there are 120 exhibits, which will show us her half-century career. In addition to clothes, the exhibition will also show cosmetics, accessories, sketches, photographs, and belongings of the stylist to dive into her story.

The exhibition shows how much the stylist has influenced the current fashion, as well as the impact it had on women’s lives, with pieces ranging from the checkered clothes she created for the Bazaar boutique, which opened in 1955, to the most recent ones.