Mary Quant: The Woman Who Dressed the Sixties
Mary Quant taught herself to cut patterns at night so she could stock a King's Road boutique that opened with almost no money in 1955, and built an empire that put her name on everything from mini-dresses to a daisy-soled boot. This episode covers Bazaar, the Chelsea Set, the genuinely contested history of who invented the miniskirt, and the licensing empire that quietly became bigger in Japan than it ever was in Britain.
Extra research notes and source discrepancies that didn't make the final cut are up on Substack: thefashionmemoir1.substack.com.
This episode is also on YouTube, The Fashion…
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