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QUANT tells the incredible life-story of fashion icon, Dame Mary Quant.
The life of the fashion icon, style guru, and retail pioneer Dame Mary Quant -- from her first London boutique on King’s Road to a global empire incorporating fashion, housewares and cosmetics.
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Quant!: Preview
Preview: 2/16/2026 | 1m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
The life of the fashion icon, style guru, and retail pioneer Dame Mary Quant -- from her first London boutique on King’s Road to a global empire incorporating fashion, housewares and cosmetics.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipI think the point of fashion is not to get bored with looking at somebody.
I think the point of clothes for women should be one that you'll notice, two, that you look sexy and three, that you feel good.
For me, Mary Quant Limited, one of the most astonishing success storie in the world of fashion clothes.
A personal statement abou oneself or what one wants to be.
She was an innovator.
She was a rule breaker.
The empowered women Mary somehow knew what a girl in the street wanted.
I think she started the miniskirt, didn't she?
English fashion has always been notoriously rebellious.
Use time as well, wherein some of the old people didn't I cant say I particularl approve of some of the styles.
And what she did was liberate as girls for the first time you could have sex and you didn't have to worry.
Give her the pills, one shoul really be in charge of her life.
The Beatles provided the soundtrack.
Mary certainly provided all the visual images.
You know it was a time when black models were not used in magazines.
Mary posed a new idea of beauty, this amazing British woman with this sense of freedom and innovation created a global look.
130 shops in Japan.
Mary Quant is without a doubt one of the most important British designers ever.
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