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Mary quant10/26/2022 These particular pieces are accompanied by black and white photographs of the owners of the pieces on loan. In 2018, the Victoria and Albert Museum launched the #WeWantQuant campaign, a call out for garments and personal stories from the real people who wore her clothes. The latter part of the exhibition has the sacred feeling of walking through a personal or private collection. The exhibition builds from gallery-white walls to shifting coloured perspex to a bold runway layout, emanating Quant’s signature fashion shows held in townhouses in London – electric and fast-paced, overstimulating displays of music, colour and movement. A suit is tailored from Victorian-printed curtains.ĭispersed throughout the exhibition are short, black and white films that show that behind the brilliant designer was an astute business woman, a visionary in all senses. Quant’s dynamic window displays are carefully recreated: a mannequin dressed in ruffled Victorian bathing shorts walks a lobster on a leash. Starting on High Street, London in Mary Quant’s first physical store BAZAAR, moving through the beginning of the exhibition feels like entering a 1960s department store, similar to those evoked in Mad Men. In response to a period of austerity, combined with women’s new found working lives and liberation, Quant’s designs are explosive in colour, innovation and design.īeginning with a glimpse of 14-year old Quant’s sketch book, the exhibition is thoughtfully curated as it walks the viewer through the evolution of both an era and a career. Bendigo Art Gallery’s current exhibition Mary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary showcases the fashion giant’s impressive body of work, personality and legacy.Īs Victoria, and the world, emerge into a ‘new normal’, there is an intriguing timeliness to studying a fashion revolution born in a post-war era. Even more significantly, she was a pioneer of global retail distribution and mass marketing, propelled by the appeal of her irreverent character – an early ‘influencer’. Mary Quant is the infamous founder of 1960 London’s ‘Chelsea Look’ – hot pants, mini skirts and super-high hemlines.
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