Miniskirt young women to whom they were unrelated, but to oppose it on their own wives and fiancés. In the UK, by shortening the skirts to less than they were classed as children's garments rather than adult clothes. Children's clothing was not subject to purchase tax whereas adult clothing was. The avoidance of tax meant that the price was correspondingly less. Several designers have been credited with the invention of the 1960s miniskirt, most significantly the London-based designer Mary Quant and the Parisian André Courrèges. Although Quant reportedly named the skirt after her favourite make of car, the Mini, there is
Craig Green (designer) Craig Green (designer) Craig Green (born 1986, in London) is a British fashion designer specialising in menswear. Following his BA studies, during which time he served an internship with Topman, Green went on to do a master's degree under Louise Wilson on the Fashion course at Central Saint Martins. For Autumn-Winter 2013, Green presented his first collection as part of a Topman/Fashion East initiative hosted by the British Fashion Council's London Collections: Men event. His work was widely commended in the fashion press, although the wearable wooden sculptures he showed were made fun of in a "Daily Mail" headline, and