Editing Mary Quant (section)

{{Short description|British fashion designer and fashion icon (1930–2023)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox fashion designer
| honorific_prefix   = Dame<!-- do not link per MOS:OVERLINK -->
| name               = Mary Quant
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CH|DBE|FCSD|RDI}}
| image              = Mary Quant (1966).jpg
| caption            = Quant in 1966
| birth_name         = Barbara Mary Quant
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|df=y|1930|02|11}}
| birth_place        = [[Woolwich]], London, England
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|df=y|2023|04|13|1930|02|11}}
| death_place        = [[Surrey]], England
| education          = [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths College]]
| label_name         = Mary Quant
| other_names        = Barbara Mary Plunket Greene<ref name="GazetteCH" />
| spouse             = {{marriage|Alexander Plunket Greene|1957|1990|reason=died}}
| children           = 1
}}

'''Dame Barbara Mary Quant''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|DBE|FCSD|RDI}} (11 February 1930 – 13 April 2023) was a British fashion designer and [[Fashion icon|icon]].<ref name="britlist">{{cite web|title=The Brit List: Five Great British Fashion Designers|author=Ho, Karen|url=http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/07/the-brit-list-five-great-british-fashion-designers|access-date=16 October 2012|work=[[BBC America]]|date=3 July 2012|archive-date=5 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705233053/http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/07/the-brit-list-five-great-british-fashion-designers|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=New Year Honours: Designer Mary Quant among Welsh recipients|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-30624803|access-date=9 January 2015|work=[[BBC News]]|date=30 December 2014|archive-date=4 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104044933/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-30624803|url-status=live}}</ref> She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based [[Mod (subculture)|Mod]] and youth fashion movements, and played a prominent role in London's [[Swinging Sixties]] culture.<ref name=britlist/><ref name=korea>{{cite news|title=Mary Quant, British Fashion Icon|author=Do Je-Hae|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2012/08/142_117119.html|access-date=16 October 2012|work=[[The Korea Times]]|date=10 October 2012|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192457/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2012/08/142_117119.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/mary-quant-death-age-swinging-sixties-b2319156.html|title=Mary Quant death: Designer who pioneered Swinging Sixties fashion dies aged 93|first=Ellie|last=Muir|work=The Independent|date=13 April 2023|accessdate=14 April 2023|archive-date=14 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414030533/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/mary-quant-death-age-swinging-sixties-b2319156.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She was one of the designers who took credit for the [[miniskirt]] and [[hotpants]].<ref>{{cite book|last=McKinnell|first=Joyce|title=Beauty|orig-year=1964|year=2009|publisher=Harper Collins|isbn=9780007295586|page=93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eaEFd2S2kdoC&pg=PA93|access-date=25 September 2020|archive-date=11 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111203532/https://books.google.com/books?id=eaEFd2S2kdoC&pg=PA93|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=1966 trouser suit by Mary Quant.|date=18 August 1966|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O133302/trouser-suit-quant-mary/?print=1|publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum|access-date=12 July 2012|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195513/https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O133302/trouser-suit-quant-mary/?print=1|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Ernestine Carter]]<ref name="odnb">{{Cite ODNB|title=Carter &#91;née Fantl&#93;, Ernestine Marie (1906–1983), museum curator and writer on fashion|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-48273|access-date=2024-01-20|date=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/48273 |language=en |last1=Burman |first1=Barbara }}</ref> wrote: "It is given to a fortunate few to be born at the right time, in the right place, with the right talents. In recent fashion there are three: [[Coco Chanel|Chanel]], [[Christian Dior|Dior]], and Mary Quant."<ref>{{cite book|last=Connikie|first=Yvonne|title=Fashion of a Decade|year=2006|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=9781438118925|pages=17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Q7PyCAxcCQC&pg=PA17}}</ref>