biography
pronunciation:
[kwont]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1934– )
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| biography:
| Fashion designer, inventor of the mini-skirt and hot pants, born in London, UK. She studied at Goldsmith's College of Art and designed hats for the fashionable Danish milliner, Erik. She began fashion design when she opened a small boutique in Chelsea in 1955, and married one of her partners, Alexander Plunket Greene. Her designs were an immediate success, and within seven years she had expanded to the USA and Europe, heading a multi-million dollar business. The geometric simplicity of her designs, especially the mini-skirt, and the originality of her colours, became an essential feature of the new young Chelsea look. In the 1970s she extended into cosmetics and textile design. She received the British Fashion Council's Hall of Fame Award in 1990. |
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