Today's fashion has no rules: Mary Quant, inventor of the mini-skirt

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2004

PARIS (AFP) — Mary Quant, the fashion queen of Britain's swinging 1960s who has gone down in the history books as the inventor of the mini-skirt, says fashion today knows no rules.

"I think that at the moment in fashion the mood is for individuality," Quant told AFP in an interview. "We don't want fashion rules, we don't want any of that. We want pieces and ideas that we can take and put together in our own way and be an individual."

"The desire for individualism has become stronger," she added.

Now aged 70, the petite designer who still sports a Vidal Sassoon cut reminiscent of London's 1960s, was in Paris to promote British designs, looking chic but also non-conformist, in platform heels, pinstripe pants and a sailor-striped sweater, "a la Gaultier"....