「勢利眼已經不時髦了！」透過25句智慧箴言認識「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant的瀟灑風範
堅持讓所有女性都能負擔得起時尚單品的「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant，許多想法至今看來依然前衛！
作為20世紀英國最有影響力的設計師之一，有著「迷你裙之母」美譽的瑪莉官（Mary Quant）不僅是60年代英國搖擺時尚（Swinging London）的先驅，更用服裝、配件、彩妝等多面向的設計觸角，為戰後的英國女性提供靈活自由裝扮的新選項。除了掀起短裙、絲襪搭配鮑伯頭的風潮，Mary Quant也是將熱褲、螺紋緊身毛衣與防水睫毛膏帶進我們日常穿搭造型的推手，有別於多數時裝設計師的精品路線，Mary Quant更致力於讓時尚普及化，自始至終都堅持商品價位必須是一般上班族女子們能夠負擔的價格，這也讓她的同名品牌成為成長於60至80年代的少女們的共同回憶。
這位作風獨樹一幟的傳奇設計師日前於倫敦自宅中與世長辭，享壽93歲。即使她的離開令人遺憾和不捨，但透過她所留下的設計手筆與個性金句，我們仍能從其中感受到Mary Quant毫不過時的前衛開創性與那股隨性奔放的能量！以下讓我們透過25句智慧箴言，一窺60年代時尚圈革命家的態度與風範！
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「時尚並不愚蠢輕浮，它是我們仍活在當下的證明之一。」
“Fashion is not frivolous. It's part of being alive today.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「時尚的女性駕馭衣服，而非被衣服駕馭。」
“The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「我們以往所認知的時尚已經結束了，人們現在只穿他們想穿的衣服。」
“Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「我熱愛通俗。高雅已成死水，通俗才是生活。」
“I love vulgarity. Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「這（時尚的普及化）不是因我而發生，我只是身在其中。」
“It was not happening because of me. It was simply that I was part of it.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「人們往往認為新的事物是『俗氣』的，當它們變得陳舊，就會被視為是『高雅』的。」
“People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste'.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「真正創造迷你裙的人，是那些你在街上看到的女孩們。」
“The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「她們（穿迷你裙的女子們）有種非比尋常的女性化氛圍，但她們的女性特質來自她們的態度，而非外表……她享受被關注，但是以一種巧妙的方式。她是活潑的、正向的、有主見的。」
“They [the women who wear miniskirts] are curiously feminine, but their femininity lies in their attitude rather than in their appearance... she enjoys being noticed, but wittily. She is lively, positive, opinionated.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「維達沙宣、避孕藥與迷你裙改變了一切。」
“Vidal Sassoon, the pill and the miniskirt changed everything.”
編註：維達沙宣（Vidal Sassoon）為鮑柏頭的首創者，以不需大量髮膠、較好打理的短髮造型改變了女性自60年代起的髮型風貌。
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「60年代的迷你裙是有史以來最放縱、樂觀的『看看我，生活不是很美好嗎』時尚發明。它代表了60年代、女性解放、避孕藥和搖滾樂。......這是女性解放運動的開始。」
“The sixties mini was the most self indulgent, optimistic 'look at me, isn't life wonderful' fashion ever devised. It expressed the sixties, the emancipation of women, the Pill and rock 'n' roll. ... It was the beginning of women's lib.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「時尚的重點在於讓每個人都有時髦的衣服可穿。」
“The whole point of fashion is to make fashionable clothes available to everyone.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「勢利眼已經不時髦了。在我們的店裡，你會看到公爵夫人與打字員為了買同一件洋裝你爭我搶。」
“Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「時尚是你在家門外的世界與別人較勁的利器。人們總是沒理由地比較喜歡你，那其實只是因為他們總會對穿著符合自己喜好的人有好感。」
“Fashion is a tool to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「時尚並不會影響輿論風向，它所做的是反映時代氛圍。它體現了人們在讀什麼、想什麼、聽什麼，還有建築、繪畫，以及對於成功與社會的態度。」
“Fashion doesn't really influence the climate of opinion, it reflects what is really in the air. It reflects what people are reading and thinking and listening to, and architecture, painting, attitudes to success and to society.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「我每年都產出大量的設計作品，這變成一種癡迷，一種毒品，我完全無法停下來。」
“I was churning out so many designs a year, it became an obsession, a drug. I couldn’t stop.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「我們當時沒有意識到自己正在做的事情是具開創性的。享受所有的機會、擁抱我們的成果，然後就趕緊接受下一個挑戰就夠我們忙的了。」
“We didn't necessarily realize that what we were creating was pioneering, we were simply too busy relishing all the opportunities and embracing the results before rushing on to the next challenge.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「去冒險，去追尋吧！生命總會有另一個機會、另一次嘗試。承擔其中的龐大風險有其必要性。」
“Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「擁有財富就像擁有一頭金髮，看似吸引人但其實沒必要。」
“Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「規則是為那些不想自己思考的懶惰鬼發明的。」
“Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves..”
「迷你裙之母」瑪莉官Mary Quant語錄：
「我害怕成為大人，因為這代表著要穿上非常壓抑的衣服。」
“I dreaded having to be grown-up because it meant one was going to wear very inhibiting clothes.”
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