Fashion and make-up designer Dame Mary Quant, credited with some of the most iconic fashion looks of the 1960s including the mini skirt, has died aged 93.
A statement from her family said she "died peacefully at home in Surrey, UK this morning". It continued: “Dame Mary, aged 93, was one of the most internationally recognised Fashion Designers of the 20th Century and an outstanding innovator of the Swinging Sixties.”
Born to Welsh schoolteachers in in south-east London on February 11, 1930, Ms Quant gained a diploma in art education at Goldsmith's College where she met her future husband, Alexander Plunket Greene, to whom she was married from 1957 until his death in 1990.
