#Mary Quant

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• "Overdraft' Waistcoat.

Date: 1967

Designer: Mary Quant; Made by: Steinberg and Sons; Made for: Ginger Group

Place of origin: London

Medium: Wool, Acetate

[kitsunetsuki]

Norman Parkinson - Ingrid Boulting for Mary Quant (Vogue UK 1974)

[venusimleder]

Mary Quant, 1967.

[indy829]

Some propaganda for Audrey. I do think that Eartha will take the whole cake (and if she does, she deserves it), but I do always appreciate an opportunity to share Two for the Road Audrey.

The first image many have of Hepburn is what I call "Dorm Room Wall Audrey," where she's decked out in one of her resplendent Givenchy gowns or vanishing under a large exquisite Cecil Beaton hat.

However, my favorite brand of Audrey is "'60s Mod Audrey on a Roadtrip through the South of France":

Two for the Road (1967) was her second to last film in her 1953-1967 hot streak before entering semi-retirement to raise her son Sean and to recover from being married to Mel Ferrer for too long.

It was her third time being directed by Stanley Donen after Funny Face (1957) and Charade (1963) and tells the story of couple Mark and Joanna Wallace (Albert Finney and Hepburn respectively) navigating the ups and downs of their tumultuous yet passionate relationship over the course of 12 years. It's experimental in its nonsequential storytelling, transitioning frequently between different years of their relationship. Essentially, Two for the Road backpacked so Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind could run. It's also very telling that screenwriter Frederic Raphael would go on to write the screenplay for Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

Donen said of directing Hepburn that of all of their collaborations, Road saw Hepburn at her most relaxed. And watching her as Joanna, one does get the sense that she hadn't been so unguarded and comfortable in her own skin since Roman Holiday (1953).

Joanna may have also been the most complex role she ever had the chance to play. The 12-year timeline allows us to see how her naive ingenue persona slowly evolves into the world weary women she played in her later films that were getting sick and tired of men's shit.

Her fashions in the film also gave us a unique off-the-rack Audrey. Her Givenchy wardrobe was often like a suit of armor for her and alleviated her of some of the insecurities she struggled with. In Road, she allowed herself to dispose of that crutch and gave us what I feel is her best performance. The woman got to wear a skintight PVC suit and even jeans and a pair of Converse!

@hotvintagepoll

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[milksockets]

'mary quant's ginger group, "a preppy collection of clothes" shot in cambridge: lambswool sweater, "jamaican" shorts + cardigan jacket' in 100 years of style by decade & designer: volume 5 - linda watson (1999)

[brittsekland]

Models launch the latest collection from Mary Quant's ready-to-wear range "The Ginger Group", 16th October 1969.

[voguefashion]

Jenny Gassity wearing silver stockings by Mary Quant, August 1966.

[anotherdayinbliss]

Selection of Mary Quant stockings and tights in original packaging, 1965–83. Victoria and Albert Museum

[jadeazora]

Fashion brand Mary Quant is collaborating with Pokemon on a Pikachu and Morpeko-themed merch line, these release tomorrow in Japan.

There's also these new Takara Tomy gachapon charms, releasing in December.

[mauricedelafalaise]

1967

[the-golden-purple-box]

60s-Ingrid Boulting for Mary Quant cosmetics

[kitsunetsuki]

Helmut Newton - Twiggy Wearing Mary Quant Ginger Group (Vogue UK 1966)

[dreamsofvintage]

Fashion in the sixties. The era of stiletto heels, mini skirts, oversized buttons and psychedelic prints!

Mary Quant remains one of the most influential fashion designers of the 1960s, popularising the mini skirt and super high hemlines and many other looks that were critical to the development of the Swinging Sixties!

[cmonbartender]

Twiggy wearing Mary Quant (1966)

[hibiscusbabyboy]

1960s Dark Coquette fashion inspiration pt. 1