Celebrity Deaths

Fashion designer Dame Mary Quant has died at the age of 93. The news was confirmed on 13 April via a statement from her family declaring that she "died peacefully at home in Surrey, UK this morning". Tributes poured in for the fashion icon who was credited with popularising the miniskirt in the 1960s. "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," the V&A Museum tweeted. Former British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman added: "RIP Dame Mary Quant. A leader of fashion but also in female entrepreneurship- a visionary who was much more than a great haircut." Quant was often dubbed the "mother of the miniskirt" after the o...