What was the six letter name given to the clothes shop opened by Mary Quant on London's King's Road in 1955 ?
Mary Quant the corner of Markham Square and King's Road in Chelsea, London called "Bazaar", above "Alexander's", a basement restaurant run by Plunket Green. In 1957, they opened the second branch of "Bazaar", which was designed by Terence Conran. Successful designs from this early period included small white plastic collars to brighten up sweaters and dresses, bright stockings in colours matched to her knitwear, men's cardigans made long enough to be worn as dresses, and a pair of "mad" lounging pyjamas made by Quant herself which were featured in "Harper's Bazaar" and purchased by an American manufacturer to copy. Following this, Quant
Mary Quant decided to design and make more of the clothes she stocked, instead of buying-in stock. Initially working solo, she was soon employing a handful of machinists, and by 1966 she was working with eighteen manufacturers concurrently. For a while in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Quant was one of only two London-based high-end designers consistently offering youthful clothes for young people. The other was Kiki Byrne, who opened her boutique on the King's Road in direct competition with Quant. The miniskirt, described as one of the defining fashions of the 1960s, is one of the garments most widely associated