A Crate Full of Quant (Dame Mary Quant and Alexander Plunket Greene with models Vicky Hodge, Peggy Moffitt, Linda Carlens, Jenny Fassell, Karina, Renate, Jill Wright, Lorraine Chase and Sarah Dawson)

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A Crate Full of Quant (Dame Mary Quant and Alexander Plunket Greene with models Vicky Hodge, Peggy Moffitt, Linda Carlens, Jenny Fassell, Karina, Renate, Jill Wright, Lorraine Chase and Sarah Dawson)

by John Adriaan
digital gelatin silver print, 1 April 1966
18 1/8 in. x 14 1/8 in. (459 mm x 358 mm) image size
Given by John Adriaan and Sally Pasmore, 2009
Photographs Collection
NPG x133068

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  • John Adriaan (1921-2014), Photographer. Artist or producer of 17 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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  • 100 Fashion Icons, p. 37 Read entry

    Fashion designer Dame Mary Quant opened her first Bazaar boutique on King's Road in Chelsea, London, in 1955. She married her work partner, the fashion entrepreneur Alexander Plunket Greene, in 1957. Quant became known for her bold, geometric designs and for popularising the miniskirt, which became synonymous with the 'Swinging Sixties' in London. Photographer John Adriaan's image for the Daily Mirror – featuring models Vicky Hodge, Peggy Moffitt, Linda Carlens, Jenny Fassell, Karina, Renate, Jill Wight, Lorraine Chase and Sarah Dawson – celebrates the imminent worldwide launch of Quant's cosmetics line, which joined her vastly successful underwear and outerwear ranges. All Quant products were branded with the classic daisy logo.

  • Ribeiro, Aileen; Blackman, Cally, A Portrait of Fashion: Six Centuries of Dress at the National Portrait Gallery, 2015, p. 240

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The English football team wins against West Germany at the World Cup Final in Wembley.
144 people, including 116 children, die in the Aberfan disaster when a colliery waste tip slides down a mountain in Wales.
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentence to life imprisonment for the brutal Moors Murders.

Art and science

Tom Stoppard's first play Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead premiers. This absurdist play uses two minor characters from Hamlet to explore the existential themes of free will versus determinism and the futility of language.
Seamus Heany publishes his first volume of poems, Death of a Naturalist.

International

The Cultural Revolution is launched in China in order to bring Chinese culture and society in line with communist ideals. It was also, however, an attempt by Mao Zedong to regain control of the country after the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward.
Archbishop of Canterbury, Arthur Michael Ramsey meets Pope Paul VI, the first official meeting between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches for 400 years.

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