Twiggy dress

From Seventeen, September 1967 Twiggy fashion layout

Photo by Cecil Beaton for Vogue

Halston Evening Turban 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…

Twiggy , born Leslie Hornby is considered to be one of the world's first international supermodels. She defines the playful, mod ...

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From the Swinging Sixties of Carnaby Street to the mods, via the first groupies and space age fashion, the decade offered so much sartorial inspiration.

In August 1966 in the Pendennis Diary column in the British newspaper the Observer there was a small item about Twiggy the Neasden-born model who had just rocketed to fame: There’s a power behind every throne. Justin de Villeneuve is the power behind Twiggy. Twiggy is the heir-apparent to Jean Shrimpton. And David Bailey is … Continue reading "A Marvellous Collection of Photos of Dame Lesley Lawson aka Twiggy"

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Twiggy is wearing Pierre Cardin

Breaking free from the tailored look on the 1950s, the youthquake driven dresses of the sixties loosed up the waistline, shorted the hemline and hit you smack in the face with bright Pop Art colors and Op Art (optical illusion) prints. 1960s dresses had multiple style variations off of one key shape- the shift dress.