It was the miniskirt more than any other garment, that came to epitomise the new liberated woman. Hems had been rising since the late 1950s but it was Quant who popularised the style and put it out into the mass market.
“It was the girls on the King’s Road who invented the mini,” she said. “I was making easy, youthful, simple clothes, in which you could move, in which you could run and jump and we would make them the length the customer wanted. I wore them very short and the customers would say, ‘Shorter, shorter.'”
She also became one of the first fashion designers to work with PVC producing a range of wet-look clothes that made the pages of all the best fashion magazines.