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Dame Lesley Lawson (née Hornby; born 19 September 1949), widely known by the nickname Twiggy, is an English model, actress, and singer. She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenage model during the swinging '60s in London.
Twiggy, a.k.a. Lesley Hornby, posted photos from a 1967 Disneyland trip in honor of the company’s 100th anniversary.
Along with model Twiggy, Quant started pushing the boundaries of what was deemed appropriate in the early '60s when she raised the hemline of skirts to roughly six inches above the knee. Quant ...
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Women were inspired by the top models of those days, such as Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Colleen Corby, Penelope Tree, Edie Sedgwick and Veruschka. Velvet mini dresses with lace-collars and matching cuffs, wide tent dresses and culottes pushed aside the geometric shift. False eyelashes were in vogue, as was pale lipstick.
Jean Rosemary Shrimpton (born 7 November 1942) [4] is an English model and actress. She was an icon of Swinging London and is considered to be one of the world's first supermodels.
The Sixties fashion icon says she has done many ‘things that I didn’t plan to do’
Other popular models of the day, such as Twiggy, based their modeling appearance on Boyd. [20] [nb 1] In the description of journalist Tom Hibbert, Boyd and Jean Shrimpton became "international celebrities" as the embodiment of the "British female 'look' – mini-skirt, long, straight hair and wide-eyed loveliness".