Mary Quant – A Revolutionary with a Playful Streak
Mary Quant Exhibition in Taiwan / 2022.05.28-2022.08.28 Mary Quant embarked on her world-changing career in fashion around 70 years ago, opening her first boutique, Bazaar, in Chelsea, London, in 1955, amid the charred surrounding of a post-war bleakness. Yet, her fashions transcend the decades and couldn’t be more refreshing and relevant today, in 2022. On the two occasions I have attended her retrospective, titled Mary Quant – A Fashion Revolutionary – staged at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and running from 26/05/2022 to 28/08/2022, there has been ample evidence that visitors, many of them young women who could clearly be called “fashionable”, have enthusiastically engaged with the exhibits, photographing mannequins and dolls on display and standing for extended periods watching the footage and listening to the testimony to the pioneering fashions of Mary Quant. As well as resonating through the ages, the clothes on show here, along with the verve and playfulness with which Quant...