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Along with her husband, Alexander Plunket Greene and business partner Archie   McNair, she opened her first boutique, Bazaar, on the King’s Road in 1955. She originally stocked clothes from wholesalers but soon became frustrated with   the options available and began designing her own clothes. In 1963 she set up the Ginger Group label. Through the Ginger Group she sold pieces at a lower   price point than at Bazaar, making her designs available to a wider market. In 1964 she went into business with the Nylon Hosiery Company to create a very   successful line of socks, stockings and tights and in 1965 started a collaboration with Alligator Rainwear Ltd.  She later expanded into cosmetics and   homeware, creating one of the first international lifestyle brands. In many parts of Europe, North America, Australia, and by the 1970s, Japan, almost anyone,   whatever their income, could spare the money to buy a pair of 'Mary Quant'  tights or a lipstick. This enabled girls who could not  otherwise afford her clothing to feel in touch with fashion, and made Mary Quant a household name.\n\nMany of Mary Quant's designs echoed the 1960s trend for satirising and subverting Victorian institutions and customs. The furnishing fabrics destigned by the quintessentially English designer, William Morris, were reproduced in the 1960s for use in the home but were crafted into flamboyant tailored jackets for men by counter-cultural brands, particularly Granny takes a Trip of the King's Road. Here, Mary Quant adapts this style, typically using a minimal, two-colour print, for a neat but striking suit for a woman. William Morris registered the 'Marigold' pattern in 1875 and it was printed on wallpaper and fabrics. 'Marigold' continues to be a popular pattern for home decoration, into the 21st century.","physicalDescription":"A matching jacket and skirt made of furnishing-weight cotton, printed with William Morris's 'Marigold' pattern in blue on white. The jacket is single-breasted, with a collar and revers, fastening with three shiny white plastic domed buttons. There is a horizontal welted pocket at each side. The jacket sleeves are full length and are finished with a small white plastic button at each cuff. The skirt is slightly flared and the hem is knee (or slightly above) length.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Mary Quant","id":"A2349"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Steinberg & Sons","id":"AUTH350851"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd.","id":"A6395"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":"Sanderson bought the William Morris brand and many of the company's wallpaper and textile printing blocks when Morris & Co liquidated in 1940. They recoloured and reissued many of the prints for furnishings in the 1950s and 1960s."}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"cotton (textile)","id":"AAT14067"}],"techniques":[{"text":"printing","id":"AAT53319"},{"text":"machine-sewing","id":"AAT257463"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Fashion","id":"THES48957"},{"text":"Womenswear","id":"THES49044"},{"text":"Ready-to-wear","id":"THES278915"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2016JC3515","2016JC3516","2016JC3513","2016JC3512","2016JC3514"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"016","id":"THES305855"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"016","id":"THES305855"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"jacket","id":"x40630"}],[{"text":"skirt","id":"AAT209932"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"designed","id":"x29338"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Pontypridd","id":"x34889"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Despite the clear 'Made in England' line on the Mary Quant's Ginger Group label, many of the designs for this range were probably produced at the Steinberg & Sons factory in Hawthorn, Pontypridd, South Wales, although the company also had factories in London and elsewhere. The Pontypridd factory operated from the 1950s and finally closed in 2009, after manufacturing for the company's Alexon brand mostly moved off-shore in 2003."}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"c 1967","earliest":"1962-01-01","latest":"1971-12-31"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Louise Brett and Isabella Brogden","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'MADE IN ENGLAND/MARY QUANT'S Ginger GROUP'\r\n'WASHABLE'\r\n'7'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Labels attached inside collar"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Matching jacket and skirt of William Morris 'Marigold' printed blue and white cotton furnishing fabric, by Mary Quant's Ginger Group, c.1967.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"A similar Liberty-style printed furnishing fabric suit by Mary Quant was featured in a photograph by Reginald Davis, 1965. In the collection of the Mary Quant Archive.\r\n\r\nImage courtesy Mary Quant Archive / Victoria and Albert Museum, London © Reginald Davis\r\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"[Mary Quant exhibition, 2019]\r\n\r\nWILLIAM MORRIS PRINT SUIT\r\n1967\r\n\r\nQuant’s interest in historic textile prints continued throughout the 1960s and ‘70s, as seen in her use of William Morris ‘Marigold’ furnishing fabric for this jacket and skirt. Her choice of material reflects a broader revival of 19th-century William Morris prints that were fashionable at the time.\r\n\r\nPrinted cotton manufactured by Sanderson\r\nLabelled ‘Mary Quant’s Ginger Group’\r\nMade by Steinbergs, Pontypridd, Wales (probably)\r\nGiven by Louise Brett and Isabella Brogden\r\nV&A: T.8:1to2-2014","date":{"text":"30/03/2020","earliest":"2020-03-30","latest":"2020-03-30"}}],"partNumbers":["T.8:1-2014","T.8:2-2014"],"accessionNumberNum":"8","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":2014,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-24","recordCreationDate":"2013-12-23","availableToBook":true}}