What is Mary Quant?
{{Infobox fashion designer | honorific_prefix = Dame | name = Mary Quant | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CH|DBE|FCSD|RDI}} | image = Mary Quant (1966).jpg | caption = Quant in 1966 | birth_name = Barbara Mary Quant | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1930|2|11}} | birth_place = [[Blackheath, London]], England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2023|4|13|1930|2|11}} | death_place = [[Surrey]], England | nationality = | education = [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths College]] | label_name = Mary Quant | other_names = Barbara Mary Plunket Greene<ref>[http://thesteepletimes.com/fashion/mary-quant-obe-fscd Quant profile], thesteepletimes.com. Retrieved 7 May 2015.</ref> | spouse = {{marriage|Alexander Plunket Greene|1957|1990|reason=died}} | children = 1 }}[[File:Mary quant dress victoria albert museum.jpg|thumb|Mary Quant dress at the [[V&A]] museum]] '''Dame Barbara Mary Quant''' <small>[[Order of the Companions of Honour|CH]]</small> [[Order of the British Empire|<small>DBE</small>]] (11 February 1930 – 13 April 2023) was a [[British people|British]] [[fashion]] [[designer]].<ref>Mary Quant in Voguepedia. [http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Mary_Quant] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140730080555/http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Mary_Quant|date=2014-07-30}}</ref> In 1963, she won the ''Sunday Times'' International Fashion Award, and was chosen as ''[[Woman of the Year]]''.<ref>The Woman of the Year is a British Award, founded in 1955; it is now sponsored by [[Barclays plc|Barclays Bank]]. [http://www.womenoftheyear.co.uk/history.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101015015045/http://www.womenoftheyear.co.uk/history.htm|date=2010-10-15}}</ref> Quant is famous as a designer who invented the [[miniskirt]] and [[hot pants]]. She was also instrumental in the [[Mod (subculture)|mod]] fashion movement,<ref>[[Mods and Ro