The name Dame Mary Quant may be unfamiliar to many on this side of the Atlantic, but her influence is everywhere Americans look, now that the warm summer months are approaching. The British fashion trailblazer, who died last week at the age of 93, pioneered a revolution in women’s clothing that embraced both postwar cultural upheaval and the advent of street style.

In short, quite literally, the world now mourns the woman who popularized the miniskirt, as well as the other iconic Mod trends from Britain’s “Swinging Sixties.”