#quantes

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• "Overdraft' Waistcoat.

Date: 1967

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

Place of origin: London

Medium: Wool, Acetate

[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

[kitsunetsuki]

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

[riverlarking]

[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.

[royalarchivist]

Quackity: I want to talk about that round with you. Mike, Badboyhalo was about to make it to the very end of the Parkour, and you shot him with an arrow, not allowing him to get to the end. Would you like to talk about that?

Mike: Only a Crow will win, so that's why I had to make this harsh decision to help my–

Quackity: Can you repeat- can you repeat- can you repeat the answer?

Mike: Oh, yeah yeah yeah, of course. I had to shoot him because I'm with the Team Crow until the end, and had to kill him so one of my friends could–

Quackity: Wow. Are all of you from Team Crow?

Team Crow: Yeah! Hell yeah! Ca -CAW! Yessir! CA-CAW!

Quackity: Wow.

[clacclo]

Tu non sai quante cose ti ho detto con il pensiero...

@clacclo

[voguefashion]

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

[mydarkapron]

NIMONA, 2023

Nick Bruno + Troy Quane

[anotherdayinbliss]

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

[visenyaism]

I saw this debunk of a scaremonger post abt "the brain's addiction center" + a response to your post abt phones, I wanted to know your thoughts since you've talked abt them before

https://www.tumblr.com/capnsoapy/763519006243258368/no-phone-addiction-and-social-media-addiction?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/night-dark-woods/763158479120842752?source=share

imo I think that it's possible to get attached to your phone, but the best way to spend time on it is to not go on apps that make you doomscroll and spend more time talking to friends over message/call, since it'll probably be more mentally healing than spending 3 hours seeing random white nationalists on Twitter

Well there’s a reason I said “the confluence of age of getting phone going down plus the prevalence of short form video as the dominant form of social media content plus the most significant collective educational gap in recent history (plus broader attack on public education) plus adolescent developing impulse control as a whole has had a deleterious effect on many aspects of adolescent development, education, and socialization” and not “teenagers are literally chemically dependent on their phones” isn’t there.

[kitsunetsuki]

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

[formulapookie]

i need him to look at me like this and every single one of my problems will be solved

please bez please

[milksockets]

mary quant in the london look: fashion from street to catwalk - christopher breward, edwina ehrman + caroline evans (2004)