Fashion Revolutionary's exhibition has opened at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Join in the fashion, freedom and fun as Mary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary explores the cultural icon who embodied the youthquake of the Sixties and embraced new mass production techniques to create new looks and lifestyles for modern women.entirely revolutionary. She invited women to dress for having active and playful lives. She made fashion accessible, affordable, comfortable and available to all women.
Famously modelled by Twiggy, Grace Coddington and more, Mary Quant’s clothes personified the energy and fun of swinging London and Quant became a powerful role model for the working woman. Challenging conventions, she is known as the face of the miniskirt and popularised colourful tights and tailored trousers – encouraging a new age of feminism.
Inspiring young women to rebel against traditional dress worn by their mothers and grandmothers, Quant turned a tiny boutique on the King’s Road, London, into a wholesale brand available in department stores across the UK, US, Europe and Australia.
Exhibition details
When:
The show runs until Sunday 13 March 2022
10am–5pm daily
10am–9pm Fridays
Where:
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Cnr Kitchener and Wellesley Streets
Auckland, New Zealand
Admission:
Members FREE
Adult $24.50
Child under 12 and under FREE
Other ticket types available
Head to aucklandartgallery.com/maryquant for tickets, events, and more!
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Published 4 February 2022