...20TH CENTURY DESIGNERS YourFirstNameYourLastName University title Course title: Lecturer’s name: Born to welch school teachers in 11 of February in the year 1934, Mary Quant is a renowned welsh fashion designer and present day icon in British fashion circles. Quant graduated from the Goldsmith College in London with a diploma in Art and ventured in to fashion. She is credited with the popularization of the miniskirt, an outfit whose invention she is silently credited with. During the swinging sixties, her designs tailored from the miniskirt, managed not only to capture her clientele, but the swinging sixties zeitgeist. For this invention she so flawlessly and successfully popularized, she received the OBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) award in the year 1966. As a design guru, Quant has inevitably developed long lasting fashion silhouettes in her artistic work of the miniskirt and the go-go boots. This is emphasized by the development of high boot and rain boot from the foundation laid across by Quant’s go-go boots. She has left her mark not only on the trends but also on a number of fashion designers whose work bear her mark such as Anna Sui, Betsey Johnson, Diane Von Furstenberg, and Marc Jacobs. Listed among the top 100 designers of all time, Rudi Gernreich is idolized for being the first to develop unisex clothing and the famed mokini. An American fashion icon of the early 60’s, Gernreich was born in 8th of April in the year 1922 to Vietnamese parents resident...
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...Mary Quant: A woman who completed women and the youth culture During the 1960s, although Great Britain was referred as the empire on which the sun never sets, the nation itself was too busy in replicating and imitating culture and arts of France. Even the young nation, United States had the victory of seizing hegemony right after World War 2, which hurt the Great Britain’s pride. Not only the nation itself but also the people of Great Britain desperately wanted something “British-like,” something of their own. Furthermore, the social issues for wanting individualism, having a will to express their own selves, and second wave of feminism, more liberated life styles for women, erupted across the Western countries. New definitions of youth and femininity were epitomized through fashion typically created by Mary Quant, a British fashion designer. She had not only helped translating a generation of women, but also helped the failing British fashion industry into a thriving commercialism. Mary Quant was born in London, 1934. She studied illustration at Goldsmith College of Art and met her future husband, Alexander Plunket Greene and a former solicitor, Archie Mcnair. When she failed to become an art teacher, she teamed up with her husband and Mcnair to open up a boutique called Bazaar in Kings Road, London. In the beginning, she planned to buy clothes from the private wholesalers and sell it as retail items at her boutique, but with the limited designs, which...
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...fields, music, fashion, life style, politics, it was a free, glamourous, rebellious and modern decade. So we can ask how the 60s became a famous decade ? Fisrt, in the 60s lots of revolution and new kinds of hereos appear in music, fashion. In a second part, big changes, in equalty women/men new technologies, industry. In fact, in the 60s fashion became an important because of the start of consumer society and the whishe to copy the raising celebrities like twiggy the supermodel. People could choice between differents kind of styles. In class we listen an audio document which introduce the main styles in the 60s, the rockers with black clotthes and chains, the hippies with flowers and casual clothes and the mods which start thanks to Mary Quant and the mini skirt. It was a famous decade also because of the music became an important part of the british decade, the brand new bands like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones or the Who, and the music from America. Other hereos were born, the pirates DJs, the text page 34 show us the djs broadcast rock music and commercial which was ban on official radios like Bbc, poeple loved those radio because it was new and they feel like rebel because they disobey to the law. The pirates radio changes things because people start to open their cultural opinion. But the 60s change also in the lifestyle. In class we listen a recording, where people talks about their 60s memories. They remenbered, it was a revolution in the new technologies, families could...
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...and N o w ! PT at ve C p e d S r o A G 2 0 l 1 4 NAVIGATION CAT 2015 new paper pattern Filed in: CAT Cetking July 25, 2015 10 changes in CAT 2015 new paper pattern 1. Not all multiple choice questions Major change which happened this year is that not all questions are multiple choice. This means for some questions students have to type in the answer on the window given. Just like essay writing section in GMAT. 2. Time limit 3 hours – 180 minutes CAT 2015 will be a 3 hours paper instead of 170 minutes cat 2014. This is no major change but when combined with sectional timings your mock strategies will need to change and adapt for the paper. 3. sections Cat 2015 is back to traditional 3 sections. Quant 34 questions Verbal 34 questions DI LR 32 questions No major change here.. just rearranging 100 questions into 3 sections instead of two. 4. Sectional timing each of the 3 sections will have sectional timing of 1 hour. Student cannot move from one section to other within the time frame. Trust me this is a good news for average students as automatically your time is distrubuted among all sections but on the other hand...
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