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Fashion A Quantum leap for women
Mary Quant

V&A

ASHION IS not frivolous; it is
part of being alive today.” So said
“Ficonic fashion designer Dame
Mary Quant, the subject of a major new
exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert
Museum.
The show, which runs until February 16,
2020, is the first international retrospective
on the woman said to have personified the
energy and fun of swinging London, who
was a powerful role model for the working
woman.
Challenging conventions, she popularised
the mini skirt, colourful tights and tailored
trousers – encouraging a new age of
feminism.
The exhibition brings together more
than 120 garments as well as accessories,
cosmetics, sketches and photographs – most
of which have never been on display before. ICONS: Mary Quant with Vidal Sassoon
Last summer the V&A asked the public Photograph by Ronald Dumont, 1964, Ronald DumontStringerGetty Images
to track down rare Quant garments
from wardrobes around the UK. COLOUR QUEEN: Mary Quant and models at the Quant Afoot footwear
More than 800 responses were shows how Quant’s brand connected collection launch, 1967 © PA Prints
the owners’ personal stories and and how her youthful, revolutionary “ She dressed the
received and 35 objects from 30 with her customers, how she made
individuals were selected alongside fashion affordable for working women,
liberated woman,
photographs of women wearing clothes, inspired by London’s creative freed from rules and
their beloved Quant clothes. scene, made British streetstyle the global regulations
Jenny Lister, co-curator of Mary influence it remains today.” ”
Quant at the V&A, said: “She Dame Mary said: “It is a huge honour ROAD TO SUCCESS:
transformed the fashion system, to be recognised by the V&A with this From small boutique to international The Mary Quant
overturning the dominance of dedicated exhibition. label, Quant revolutionised British Beauty bus, 1971
luxury couture from Paris. She “We didn’t necessarily realise that fashion. The exhibition said the V&A, © Interfoto Alamy Stock
dressed the liberated woman, freed what we were creating was pioneering, provides ‘an unrivalled insight into Photo
from rules and regulations, and we were simply too busy relishing all the the career of one of Britain’s most
from dressing like their mothers. opportunities and embracing the results revolutionary and important fashion
“This long-overdue exhibition before rushing on to the next challenge.” designers.’

Film UK Box
Dragged Across Concrete Shocks Office
galore
Top 10
Out now – 18 rating
Mel goes rogue… again 1 Shazam

2 Dumbo (pictured below)

3 Captain Marvel
B RETT RIDGEMAN and against anyone and 4 Kalank
Anthony Lurasetti are street everyone, with such a calm
cops with a reputation in this pulpy disposition, it becomes
crime thriller. When a video leaks a constant reminder of
of them beating a suspect in order the threat that faces these 5 Red Joan
to complete a bust, they are duly disgraced cops, a sword of
suspended without pay that they Damocles dangling above 6 Greta
desperately need. them.
Brett (Mel Gibson) is out of Known for the
prospects, almost 60 with his ex- uncompromising brutality 7 Wonder Park
partner of 20 years ago now in of his previous films Bone
a cushy office job above him, he Tomahawk and Brawl in 8 Wild Rose
decides to go rogue and do some Cell Block 99, director
police work off the books to acquire S Craig Zahler sets
proper compensation. expectations with this 9 Pet Sematary
Younger and mouthy, Anthony equally foreboding title
(Vince Vaughn) goes along for and makes good on his
support with nothing more to lose. promise. 10 Little
That is until a stake-out for a drug- It is a much longer
dealer turns into something much film with deliberately
bigger than they anticipated. slow pacing, but there
Dragged Across Concrete is split is an artful cultivation GOOD COP GONE BAD: It's a familiar role for veteran actor Mel Gibson
between a few perspectives, from of tension at play. The
the point of view of these bickering unflinching use of sudden horrific flinch, despite knowing that it was buddy cop movie with its tongue
cops, to ex-con turned getaway violence plays so unpredictably that going to happen. Dragged Across in its cheek. It is extreme in its
driver Henry Johns (Tory Kittles) you can’t trust any scene. No-one is Concrete ignores the rhythm darkness but with a lot of comedy
and the ominous, black-masked safe. completely so that you can’t predict to help it go down more easily.
character who hired him. There is a certain rhythm to what will happen next. Review by Sam Cooney
Able to see the criminals’ jump-scares and moments of Dragged Across Concrete is a
capacity for extreme violence shock in which you are made to noir-infected, exploitation-inspired RnR rating: 4/5 Source: theguardian.com