Just as Mary Quant’s name is synonymous with miniskirts, makeup, and Mods, so Pattie Boyd’s is with London’s 1960s Youthquake (and, of course, The Beatles).
Just as Mary Quant’s name is synonymous with miniskirts, makeup, and Mods, so Pattie Boyd’s is with London’s 1960s Youthquake . Leggy, blonde, with deep bangs, blue eyes, and an oval face, Boyd, who was a model and later a
, embodied one of the era’s beauty ideals. More importantly, she became an exemplar of antiestablishment youth. “There was a time when every girl under 20 yearned to look like an experienced, sophisticated 30,” wrote Quant in her 1965 memoir,“[Now] their ambition is to look like Pattie Boyd, rather than Marlene Dietrich.” The next yearwould link Boyd to Quant when it introduced the model and her husband to its readers, writing: “They’re young. They’re doing things. They’re in the Quant spirit.
“When George and I met up with Mary,” said Boyd from London, “and we told her that we were getting married, she said, ‘I want to make your wedding coats,’ because we were getting married in January and it was still cold. She made the most beautiful black Mongolian fur coat for George and a red fox coat for me. Mine was a really short coat and it was very modern.”Photo: PA Images / Getty Images“started the revolution in English clothes, the Mod look that took over practically around the world.
Although Quant writes that the miniskirt had been around since the late 1950s, it became fashionable in the mid-’60s, when André Courrèges presented it at the couture in Paris and Quant made it available to the girl in the street. It also became a controversial symbol of the era, representing women’s liberation or promiscuity, depending on who was looking. “It was difficult to understand why [people] were shocked,” wrote Quant. “The mini was a way for young people to assert themselves.
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