Editing Mary Quant (section)

==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|title=Berets: Mary Quant (designer)|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1484018/beret-mary-quant/|access-date=2 October 2022|work=V&A collections|archive-date=2 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002085654/https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1484018/beret-mary-quant/|url-status=live}}</ref> Quant's berets, featuring her daisy logo, are in her collection at the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].<ref name="V&A"/> Through the 1970s and 1980s she concentrated on household goods and make-up rather than just her clothing lines, including the [[duvet]], which she claimed to have invented.<ref name=lisa/>

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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" />