Tania Mallet in short evening dress with bare back and halter neck and wide black patent leather belt in Terylene and silk by Mary Quant, photo by Michel Molinare, Harper's Bazaar UK, April 1963

 

Model in mini-dress by Mary Quant and green shoes by Charles Jourdan, photo by Art Kane, 1968

 

Humor overlaps with tradition in this outfit called 'Bank of England' from Mary Quant, 1963

 

Jean Shrimpton wearing very short dresses, photo by Clive Arrowsmith, British Vogue, August 1971

On the left, Jean is wearing a grey jersey skating dress with knickers attached all finished with burgundy ribbon at Stirling Cooper, black tights from Elbeo, yellow and turquoise suede shoes from Manolo Blahnik.

On the right, Jean wears a circle skirt and blouse of dotted navy and rust harlequin by Mary Quant, black tights by Mary Quant, black leather peep-toes by Bruno Magli.

 

Maudie James in trouser suit by Mary Quant for Bazaar, shoes by Moya Bowler, chair by Liberty, all in durable paper, photo by Patrick Hunt, Sunday Times, March 19, 1967
 

Catherine Deneuve is wearing a "Gigi" smock of light biscuit Irish linen lined with open work by Mary Quant, photo by David Bailey for Vogue, 1967

 

Jean Shrimpton in dress by Mary Quant for Bazaar, photo by John French, Feb. 17, 1963

 Bazaar was the front-runner in fashionable boutiques in London, and in charge was the husband and wife team of Mary Quant and Alexander Plunkett-Green. Opened on the Kings Road in 1955 it caused quite a stir with crowds regularly stopping to stare at the daring and imaginative window displays.  This was still the era well before the miniskirt.

 Nicole de la Marge in printed dress by Mary Quant for Bazaar, photo by Norman Eales at Vogue Studio, April 1965

Nicole de la Marge in halter dress by Mary Quant for Ginger Group, photo by Norman Eales at Vogue Studio, April 1965

 

Maudie James is wearing a layered trouser suit in Liberty lawn print by Mary Quant for Ginger Group, photo by Patrick Hunt, Nov. 1969
 

R.I.P. British fashion icon Dame Mary Quant, dies peacefully at home aged 93 (February 11, 1930 - April 13, 2023

 

Remembering model/actress Elizabeth "Betty" Threatt on her Birthday, April 12, 1926 - November 22, 1993

 

Remembering fashion designer Oleg Cassini on his Birthday, April 11, 1913 - March 17, 2006
Clockwise top left: Oleg Cassini with fiancée Grace Kelly, Ivy Nicholson, with wife, actress Gene Tierney, Lucinda Hollingsworth, models wearing "The Jackie Look", Benedetta Barzini, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothea McGowan, Oleg Cassini.

 

Happy Easter!
Harper's Bazar, April 1916, cover illustrated by Gustav Michelson.