{"id":31042,"date":"2019-04-04T20:06:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T19:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=31042"},"modified":"2019-04-04T20:11:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T19:11:05","slug":"va-the-story-of-mary-quant-make-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/va-the-story-of-mary-quant-make-up\/","title":{"rendered":"V&#038;A: The Story of Mary Quant Make-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/articles\/the-story-of-mary-quant-make-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/articles\/the-story-of-mary-quant-make-up\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31043\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"vaamq19\" src=\"http:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vaamq19.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a>Fashion icon Mary Quant is the subject of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/exhibitions\/mary-quant\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>new V&amp;A exhibition<\/strong><\/a>, opening on Saturday. Toyah is quoted on the V&amp;A&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/articles\/the-story-of-mary-quant-make-up\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Story Of Mary Quant make-up<\/strong><\/a> page:<\/p>\n<p>In this edited extract from the Mary Quant exhibition book, Beatrice Behlen explores why Quant&#8217;s make-up range was as revolutionary as her clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Singer Toyah Willcox was only eight years old and living in Birmingham when Quant&#8217;s cosmetics hit the market. Unsurprisingly she was&#8217;t allowed to wear make-up, but her older sister:<\/p>\n<p><em>would bring home beautiful round Mary Quant bottles of nail varnish in amazing colours such as canary yellow, shimmery green and night time black. I could stare at these beautiful bottles for hours, the design was one of the best things I have ever seen. Mary Quant celebrated colour in all its spectrum and this had a huge influence on how I saw make up as an instrument of self-discovery and self-expression<\/em>. <strong>Toyah Willcox, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/articles\/the-story-of-mary-quant-make-up\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>V&amp;A website<\/strong><\/a>. See further info on the Mary Quant exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/exhibitions\/mary-quant\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion icon Mary Quant is the subject of a new V&amp;A exhibition, opening on Saturday. Toyah is quoted on the V&amp;A&#8217;s The Story Of Mary Quant make-up page: In this edited extract from the Mary Quant exhibition book, Beatrice Behlen explores why Quant&#8217;s make-up range was as revolutionary as her clothing. Singer Toyah Willcox was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,27],"tags":[2127,745],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31068,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31042\/revisions\/31068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}