Do you remember the 60s?

Well I don’t! But here are the FASHION ICONS who have had a great influence to fashion in the swinging sixties and some of their designs. For Part 1 look here!

Ernestine Carter, an authoritative and influential fashion journalist of the 1950s and ’60s, wrote: “It is given to a fortunate few to be born at the right time, in the right place, with the right talents. In recent fashion there are three: Chanel, Dior, and Mary Quant.”

Mary Quant

Coat Mary Quant, 1960s Keryr Taylor Auctions

Mary Quant Design

I like designing out-of-context, without the limitations of angles, corridors, rooms or walls. It’s all the same to me, whether I am doing sleeves for dresses or table legs. Pierre Cardin

Pierre Cardin

Pierre Cardin, 1966

Pierre Cardin, 1967

Perhaps his most famous contribution to fashion after the miniskirt itself was the “Courrèges boot,” originally designed in 1963.

André Courrèges

Boots André Courrèges (French, born 1923) Date: ca. 1967 Culture: French Medium: leather Dimensions: 13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm) Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Barbara Hodes, 1985 Accession Number: 2009.300.3380a, b

André Courrèges 1964 Space Age collection

“His are the only clothes in which I am myself. He is far more than a couturier, he is a creator of personality,” Hubert de Givenchy‘s muse Audrey Hepburn said of the designer. 

Hubert de Givenchy

Paris | Audrey Hepburn in Hubert de Givenchy 1961

Evening gown of coral cotton lace re-embroidered with coral-colored beads and coral pieces by Hubert de Givenchy from 1963

To be continued…