Mary Quant

Interview with Vanessa Denza MBE

This is an interview recorded with Vanessa Denza in February 2006. As buyer for the 21 Shop at Woollands department store, Knightsbridge in 1961, Vanessa Denza helped launch key young designers. She opened the Vanessa Frye boutique, Sloane Street (1966-70), subsequently establishing Denza International, an international fashion industry recruitment agency and consultancy. She founded Graduate Fashion Week in 1989. In 2004 she received the MBE for her services to the British fashion industry and education.

Underwear: From corsets to bullet bras and back

Interview with Felicity Green

Felicity Green has received many awards for her original presentation of fashion. In 2005 she was elected to the Press Gazette Newspaper Hall of Fame.

Garments worn by Marit Allen

These four outfits were worn by Marit Allen in the 1960s, when she was a key figure in the world of 1960s British fashion.

Dating old photographs from clothes worn in the 1960s

In the 1960s, fashionable young women wore mini-skirts or mini-dresses, often cut in a simple A-line. They emphasised their eyes with pale foundation and heavy kohl eyeliner. Young men wore more colourful clothing than previously, including printed shirts. Lapels and trouser legs were exaggerated, and bell-bottom jeans were fashionable.