Fashion Designer Mary Quant Dies at 93

British designer Mary Quant passed away at home in Surrey at the age of 93, her family announced on Thursday.

Her family said she “was one of the most internationally recognised fashion designers of the 20th century and an outstanding innovator of the Swinging Sixties.”

Quant was known with her Vidal Sassoon haircut and burgeoning reputation as the figurehead for Swinging London.

The designer summed up the decade’s new mood, writing in her bestselling 1966 autobiography Quant by Quant that “the young were essentially tired of wearing the same as their mothers”.

A post on the Twitter account of the Victoria and Albert Museum, which recently hosted an exhibition about Quant’s designs, said: “It’s impossible to overstate Quant’s contribution to fashion.”

She represented the joyful freedom of 1960s fashion, and provided a new role model for young women. Fashion today owes so much to her trailblazing vision.”