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    Dame Lesley Lawson DBE ( née Hornby; born 19 September 1949), widely known by the mononym nickname Twiggy, is an English model, actress, and singer. She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenaged model during the swinging '60s in London. Twiggy was initially known for her thin build and the androgynous appearance considered to result ...

  2. Apr 26, 2024 · Twiggy (born September 19, 1949, Neasden, London, England) is a British fashion model and actress whose gamine frame and mod look defined the fashion industry during much of the late 20th century. She is widely considered to have been one of the world’s first supermodels —a top fashion model who appears simultaneously on the covers of the ...

  3. Dec 24, 2023 · Inside The Glamorous, Groundbreaking Story Of Twiggy, The English Model Whose Iconic Look Epitomized ’60s Fashion. With her cropped hairstyle, androgynous aesthetic, and mod style, Twiggy was the face of the '60s — and she remains a cultural icon to this day. In 1966, a teenage girl named Lesley Hornby stopped by a London salon to buy some ...

  4. Sep 19, 2018 · Twiggy, born Lesley Hornby, was one of the defining faces of London’s swinging ’60s and is widely considered to be one of the world’s first supermodels. At 15, she met a hairdresser named Nigel Davies (now known as Justin de Villeneuve), who gave Hornby her signature boyish haircut. Davies called the then-teenager Twigs because of her ...

  5. www.imdb.com › name › nm0493341Twiggy - IMDb

    Twiggy. Actress: The Boy Friend. Twiggy is a top model of the late 1960s, who made skinny an "inny," along with other famous skinny models such as Jean Shrimpton ("The Shrimp"), Veruschka von Lehndorff, and Penelope Tree ("The Tree").

  6. Twiggy. Actress: The Boy Friend. Twiggy is a top model of the late 1960s, who made skinny an "inny," along with other famous skinny models such as Jean Shrimpton ("The Shrimp"), Veruschka von Lehndorff, and Penelope Tree ("The Tree"). She was born Leslie Hornby on September 19, 1949, in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, one of three daughters of Nell Hornby (née Nellie Lydia Reeman), a factory ...

  7. Sep 19, 2014 · Celebrating Twiggy, the Face of the Sixties, on Her Birthday. A look back at Twiggy, revealed in pictures and with quotes from Vogue, on her 65th birthday. Helen of Troy might have had the face ...

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