the swinging sixties
Dame Mary Quant : fashion icon of London’s Swinging Sixties dies aged 93
Dame Mary Quant who died this week aged 93 played a major part in what was known as London’s Swinging Sixties. Quant was one of the fashion designers who took credit for the miniskirt and hotpants in an era that suddenly focused on making clothes for a youthful generation that until then had little…
More of London in the Swinging Sixties
As a follow-up to Queerguru’s recent review of the Beautiful People: The Boutique in the 1960s Counter Culture Exhibit in London, we were sent this wonderful wee 8-minute video from 1967. Although this may seem like the distant past before many of you were not even born, the significance and the major global impact…
