“It wasn’t me or Courrèges who invented the mini-skirt – it was the girls in the street,” said Mary Quant of the revolutionary hemline she is widely credited with creating. The mini-skirt was launched on King’s Road and immortalised in the Swinging Sixties, with Quant putting its success down to genetics. “The Chelsea girl had the best legs in the world. She had the courage to wear it,” she said.