Out with stuffy corsets, in with hot pants and mini skirts. A major exhibition on designer Mary Quant, who transformed British fashion in the Swinging Sixties, uses 120 items of clothing—plus accessories, cosmetics, sketches, and photographs—to illuminate London’s visionary of mod. “The whole point of fashion,” Quant famously remarked, “is to make fashionable clothes available to everyone.” —J.V.

Mary Quant
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Victoria and Albert Museum / London
Victoria and Albert Museum / London
Mary Quant with Vidal Sassoon. Photograph by Ronald Dumont, 1964 / Getty Images
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Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2RL, UK
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