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Born Lesley Horny, to a carpenter
and a Woolworth’s counter girl, the world’s first supermodel began modeling at
the age of fifteen in and around London during the ‘Swinging Sixties.’
Chester Weinberg
Victor Joris for Cuddlecoat
A budding teenager, Leslie
Hornby’s skinny gamine figure garnered her the nickname “Twigs” and, innocently
enough, her whippet-thin look quickly took hold as the iconic “London look”
forever associated with the emergence of London’s British fashion invasion of
North America.
Sarff-Sumpano
Jumpsuit-boots custom Ashley & Abel & Golo
Kimberly
Stanley Herman for Mr. Mort
Anne Fogarty
Accompanied by her boyfriend-hairdresser-manager Justin de Villeneuve, the duo set forth on a meteoric rise to fame that saw “Twiggy,” as she was to become known, grace the covers of fashion and teen magazines across the continent and overseas.
Gunther Jaeckel
Her boyish figure and Sassoon ‘boy-do’
- combined with huge doe-eyes framed by painted lashes that became known as
‘twiggies’, was the look that all
young women on these shores aspired to.
Harold Levine
Geoffrey Beene
Anne Fogarty
Harold Levine
Moe Nathan
Mary Quant ruled British Fashion
at the heart of Swinging London – a catch-all term for the fashion and cultural
scene of the mid-sixties, and her minis, lacy pantyhose, ribbed knits and
androgynous pantsuits made magic when presented on Twiggy’s perfect androgynous
form.
Roberto Rojas
She was incredibly thin – in a
healthy way, amazingly young, wonderfully fresh-faced, with a great sense of
humor and a cockney accent that added to an enigmatic character that North
American girls on both shores could only wish to emulate.
