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What Coco Chanel was to fashion in the first half of the twentieth century, Mary Quant is to fashion in the second half. At twenty-eight, she was elected Britain's "Woman of the Year" and was already a prime mover in transferring the center of fashion from Paris and New York to London. Today, still in her early thirties, she designs clothes, furs, stockings, foundation garments and sweaters for a global market, creating fourteen collections a year and numbering among her clients such giants as the J.C. Penney chain, Puritan Fashions and Butterick Paper Patterns. QUANT BU QUANT is her rollicking, outrageous autobiography, a dazzling sucess story as well as a first hand account of the bitterly competitive fashion industry.