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There can’t be many things more frustrating to a beauty blogger than finding gorgeous, gorgeous products that you cannot get images of. Just off the King’s Road in London is the brand new Mary Quant shop with some stunning make up pieces. Absolutely stunning. So, armed with my blackberry camera I stepped inside and asked if I could take some pictures. “Sorry, it’s not allowed”. Okay. “So, who can I talk to about getting some press images?” “We don’t do any press. Well, you could ask the manager but she’s in a meeting. I’ve worked here for four years and we’ve never done any press.”
Okaay. Fine. That’s absolutely their perogative, but it’s the first beauty brand I have ever come across that actually couldn’t be bothered to do any press at all. I didn’t even dare mention the blog! So, all the pics you see here are taken from the Japanese website that I’ve kind of navigated around to find the goodies. The one thing I saw in the shop that I can’t find an image for is a gorgeous white palette with black and red imagary of a London scene. But anything you see here can be mail ordered from the London shop. I’m not giving the phone number – they don’t want any publicity, remember.
The Mary Quant license is held by Mary Quant Cosmetics Japan Ltd who have over 200 stores in Japan selling cosmetics rumoured to generate around £95m a year. London has just one store. Seems like there’s a PR opportunity going begging.
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Ah, brings me back, I still have a Mary Quant purple eye shadow duo that I picked up from Portobello market when I was about 11! I loved that thing!
the whole no press thing is EXTREMELY baffling! why would they not want sales?
Wow, their website is really awful! They don’t seem to want our business do they?
Their nail polishes are sooooo dull. They are on ebay.
I presume someone bought the Quant trading name. I don’t think she has anything to do with it. Good in a way because the original Quant was amazing.
The nail polish came in round bottles. I had a wonderful yellow. We’re talking late 60s here. And the lippie was so creamy. ‘Grape Crush’ was my favourite. Memories….
Will be making a trip to the store asap I was flicking through some old Vogue mags and there was a gorgeous lipstick by the brand. I tried to look online but website is awful so glad there is a store!
Perhaps their unwillingness to do any press might be why I’ve never heard of Mary Quant Cosmetics until reading this post… weird.
Back in the 1960s I got taken to Way In in Harrods(the ultimate in “groovy happening boutiques”, walls painted BLACK!) by a very cool uncle, and he bought me a Mary Quant Paintbox. It was so amazing – this was before Biba – there wasn’t anything else to rival it’s trendiness and was the envy of all my little country mouse friends!
I always find the make-up in the Kings rd store to be just a bit sloppy in presentation. It’s like they just bung them in there and expect everyone to take turns in viewing the display cupboard…
I bought some eyeshadows in a cute black palette a while back which I like. The store isn’t exactly swatch- friendly as everything is displayed like expensive jewellery in glass cabinets.
such a shame they aren’t consumer and press friendly I have a few eye shadows I got from ebay and they are beautiful with the little daisies embossed in really nice quality too
Yes a jappanese company, he was her manager, and bought her out, more like pushed out, saying she run the business into the ground, very rude.Not the same, hard to find her clothing line, shoes, boots, etc.not the same.
Mary Quant still consults at times for the shop,writes books, still gets out and about,not bad in her early 80s.
What I wouldn’t give for a Grape Crush lipstick again!
Oh gosh yes!
I have looks for a replica of grape crush for years! Could you actually have a bespoke one made? I’d seriously think about it!