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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › TwiggyTwiggy - Wikipedia

    Dame Lesley Lawson DBE ( 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 teenaged model during the swinging '60s in London. Twiggy was initially known for her thin build and the androgynous appearance considered to result from ...

  2. 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 waifish frame, though it was a 1966 article in The ...

  3. Jan 24, 2022 · In the 1960s, Twiggy (real name: Lesley Lawson née Hornby) quickly became one of the top models working and one of the most recognizable faces of the decade. And today, Twiggy is still one of the most famous models in history, even though her actual modeling career only lasted a few years. After making it big in fashion, she became a singer and actor, releasing several albums, winning two ...

  4. www.britannica.com › biography › Twiggy-British-fashion-modelTwiggy | Biography & Facts | Britannica

    Jun 21, 2024 · Twiggy’s father was employed as a carpenter, and her mother was a factory worker. Twiggy attended a high school for girls and in 1965, at age 15, while working as an assistant in a London hair salon, she met hairdresser Nigel Davies (later known as Justin de Villeneuve), who called her “Twigs” because of her thin frame. The following year, he spearheaded her physical transformation ...

  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"). 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Mar 22, 2024 · Mar 22, 2024. Twiggy stepped out for a rare joint appearance with her husband Leigh Lawson this week, as the longtime couple were photographed while attending an event at The Fashion and Textile ...

  9. Sep 18, 2014 · Twiggy with Sonny and Cher (left) in Beverly Hills, 1967. Ralph Crane—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. By Ben Cosgrove. September 18, 2014 4:06 PM EDT. L ondon in the 1960s was as central to ...

  10. 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 ...