Twiggy
Dame Lesley Lawson
Twiggy was initially known for her thin build and the
After modelling, Twiggy enjoyed a successful career as a screen, stage, and television actress. Her role in
Early life
Lesley Hornby was born on 19 September 1949 and raised in Neasden (originally in Middlesex, now a suburb of north-west London).[7] She was the third daughter of Nellie Lydia (née Reeman), a factory worker for a printing firm, and William Norman Hornby, a master carpenter and joiner from Lancashire.[8] Their first daughter, Shirley, had been born 15 years earlier; their second, Vivien, had been born 7 years earlier.[citation needed] According to Twiggy, her maternal grandfather was Jewish.[9] However, her mother's genealogy, which was examined on the series Who Do You Think You Are? in 2014, does not contain Jewish ancestry.[10]
Twiggy's mother taught her to sew from an early age. She used this skill to make her own clothing.[11] She attended the Brondesbury and Kilburn High School.
Modelling career (1965–1970)
1965–1967
Twiggy is one of the first international supermodels and a fashion icon of the 1960s.[12] Her greatest influence is Jean Shrimpton,[13][14] whom Twiggy considers to be the world's first supermodel.[14] She has said she based her "look" on Pattie Boyd.[15] Twiggy herself has been described as the successor to Shrimpton.[1][16][17][18]
In January 1966, aged 16, she had her hair coloured and cut short in London at Leonard of Mayfair,[19] owned by celebrity hairdresser Leonard.[20] The hair stylist was looking for models on whom to try out his new crop haircut and he styled her hair in preparation for a few test head shots.[21] A professional photographer Barry Lategan took several photos for Leonard, which the hairdresser hung in his salon. Deirdre McSharry, a fashion journalist from the Daily Express, saw the images and asked to meet the young girl.[22]
McSharry arranged to have more photos taken. A few weeks later, the publication featured an article and images of Hornby, declaring her "The Face of '66".[12][23] In it, the copy read: "The Cockney kid with a face to launch a thousand shapes... and she's only 16".[24]
Hornby's career quickly took off.[23] She was short for a model at 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m), weighed eight stone (51 kg; 110 lb) and had a 31–23–32 (79–58–81 cm) figure, "with a new kind of streamlined, androgynous sex appeal".[25] Her hairdresser boyfriend, Nigel Davies, became her manager, changed his name to Justin de Villeneuve, and persuaded her to change her name to Twiggy (from "Twigs", her childhood nickname).[26] De Villeneuve credits himself for Twiggy's discovery and her modelling success, and his version of events is often quoted in other biographies. In her 1998 book Twiggy In Black and White, she says that she met Justin through his brother, when she worked as a Saturday girl at a hairdressers in London. This is where she began to see the models in the magazines, but never thought she could do something like that. Jean Shrimpton was her idol, so she grew her hair long to look like her, before having to have it cut off for her headshots by Barry Lategan.[21][27] Ten years her senior, De Villeneuve managed her lucrative career for seven years, overseeing her finances and enterprises during her heyday as a model.
Twiggy was soon seen in all the leading fashion magazines, commanding fees of £80 an hour, bringing out her own line of clothes called "Twiggy Dresses" in 1967,[28] and taking the fashion world by storm.[29] "I hated what I looked like," she said once, "so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad."[23] Twiggy's look centred on three qualities: her stick-thin figure, a boyishly short haircut and strikingly dark eyelashes.[30] Her signature look was achieved in part by applying three layers of false eyelashes.[31]
One month after the Daily Express article, Twiggy posed for her first shoot for Vogue. A year later, she had appeared in 13 separate fashion shoots in international Vogue editions.[citation needed]
1967–1970
Twiggy arrived in
The
Twiggy has been photographed by such noted photographers as Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Melvin Sokolsky, Ronald Traeger, Bert Stern, Norman Parkinson, Annie Leibovitz and Steven Meisel.[29]
Reaction
Twiggy and the magazines featuring her image polarised critics from the start. Her boyishly thin image was, and still is, criticised for allegedly promoting an "unhealthy" body ideal for women.[36][25] "Twiggy came along at a time when teen-age spending power was never greater," said Su Dalgleish, fashion correspondent for the Daily Mail. "With that underdeveloped, boyish figure, she is an idol to the 14- and 15-year-old kids. She makes virtue of all the terrible things of gawky, miserable adolescence."[37] At the height of her fame, Mark Cohen, president of Leeds Women's shop, had an even harsher view: "Her legs remind me of two painted worms." Yet Twiggy had her supporters. Diana Vreeland of Vogue stated, "She's no flash in the pan. She is the mini-girl in the mini-era. She's delicious looking."[37] In recent years, Twiggy has spoken out against the trend of waif-thin models, explaining that her own thin weight as a teenager was natural: "I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly – being thin was in my genes."[38]
On 10 December 1969, despite being 20 years old, Twiggy was selected as the subject for one of the first editions produced by Thames Television of the television series This Is Your Life.[citation needed]
Stage, film, television, and singing career
1970–1979
After four years of modelling, Twiggy retired in 1970, stating: "You can't be a clothes hanger for your entire life!"[39] She broke off with Justin de Villeneuve, who had been overseeing her business affairs since 1966 and released him from his duties as her manager, claiming in later years that "her career had more to do with that famous picture of her with those funny painted eyelashes, which appeared in the Daily Express under the headline 'The Face of '66'" than with his promotional efforts.[27]
She has stated several times that she is only really remembered for her modelling career although it was "only a short part of my life". She began to develop a film interest through her weekly visits to Ken Russell's house; they would watch old films together, which featured Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, and other Hollywood actors and actresses. This began to give Twiggy a new outlook on the way she dressed and the way she wore her hair; she began wearing a beret, longer skirts, and flowers as the hippie look was beginning to take over London. Ken and Twiggy worked on a film together, called The Boy Friend (1971), after watching a performance of the original musical, staged by Ken's mother's amateur dramatics group.[citation needed]
Twiggy then embarked on an acting and singing career, starring in a variety of roles on stage and screen, and recording albums. In 1971, she made her film debut as an extra, dressed as a male courtier, in
In 1973, she appeared with David Bowie on the cover of his seventh album, Pin Ups. which entered the UK chart on 3 November 1973 and stayed there for 21 weeks, peaking at No. 1. She was also name-checked ("She'd sigh like Twig the wonder kid") in Bowie's song Drive-In Saturday for his Aladdin Sane album.[40]
In October 1975, she sang at the live performance of
In 1978, the television distribution arm of American International Pictures, in an effort to gain additional syndication value in the US to the LWT rock music series Supersonic, repackaged the musical performances with Twiggy replacing Mike Mansfield's introductions. The new series, titled Twiggy's Jukebox, ran in most of the major television markets in the US during the 1978–79 TV season. Coincidentally, Twiggy had performed "Here I Go Again" and "Vanilla Olay" on Supersonic in September 1976, and these performances were included in the refurbished programme. After the initial season, Twiggy left the series, and American International Television continued Jukebox with Britt Ekland as host, using standard music videos rather than clips from Supersonic. Twiggy appeared in "There Goes the Bride" with Tom Smothers in 1979.[citation needed]
1980–1999
In 1980, Twiggy made a cameo appearance in
In 1991, she co-starred in her first American network dramatic television series, the short-lived CBS sitcom Princesses. Of eight episodes completed, only five aired. (Her Princesses co-star,
In 1993, Twiggy appeared alongside Mark Hamill in the short segment "Eye" from the made-for-cable horror anthology Body Bags. In 1994, Twiggy guest-starred in the first ever Heartbeat Christmas special (in series 4), playing Lady Janet Whitley.
In 1997, Twiggy acted in the Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit. A year later, she played Gertrude Lawrence in the biographical stage revue Noel and Gertie at Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, Long Island. In 1999, she returned to the New York stage in an off-Broadway production, If Love Were All, a revised version of Noel and Gertie, written and directed by Leigh Lawson; what set this edition apart were its tap numbers in period style. She starred as Gertrude Lawrence opposite Harry Groener's Noël Coward.[citation needed]
2000–2009
In 2001, Twiggy co-hosted the British magazine programme
In 2006, she portrayed herself as a 19-year-old in the radio play Elevenses with Twiggy, for
In the summer of 2009, the beauty products company Olay debuted its "Definity Eye Cream" campaign depicting Twiggy. Accusations of airbrushing created a stir with the media and public. A website campaign set up by Jo Swinson, the Scottish Liberal Democrat MP, attracted 700 individual complaints.[47] Procter & Gamble admitted to minor retouching and replaced the image. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) announced that the ad gave a "misleading" impression, but that no further action was required because the image had already been withdrawn. Its announcement said:
However, we considered that the post-production re-touching of this ad, specifically in the eye area, could give consumers a misleading impression of the effect the product could achieve. We considered that the combination of references to 'younger looking eyes', including the claim 'reduces the look of wrinkles and dark circles for brighter, younger looking eyes', and post-production re-touching of Twiggy's image around the eye area, was likely to mislead.[47]
Later career
2010–present
Twiggy remains in the forefront of fashion for women of her age.[48] She was one of the few famous celebrities to survive being cut from the Marks & Spencer fashion team in 2009–2010, when Dannii Minogue joined her for the spring/summer women's wear campaign.[49][50]
In 2010, she started a
On 21 November 2011, she released an album, Romantically Yours, through EMI. A collection of pop and easy listening standards spanning several generations, the album features versions of such compositions as "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", "Blue Moon", "My Funny Valentine", "Someone to Watch Over Me" and "They Can't Take That Away from Me", and London anthem "Waterloo Sunset". The album also includes a guest vocal appearance by Twiggy's daughter, Carly Lawson, on Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart", a guitar solo by Bryan Adams, and a version of Richard Marx's "Right Here Waiting" featuring duet vocals with the American songwriter himself. In 2016, archive images of Twiggy, alongside images of Shrimpton and Jane Birkin, were used for Tod's Fall/Winter campaign.[52]
On 22 November 2022, actress and filmmaker Sadie Frost teamed up with Twiggy to create an interactive virtual documentary about Twiggy's life.[53] On 16 May 2023, the documentary's final scene was produced live at Cannes Marché du Film Festival (the Cannes Film Festival) 2023, in just 48 hours, using the on-site virtual production stage of film studio, Film Soho. Alongside this, a live virtual experience by metaverse company, Hadean, and live event visualisation solutions provider, disguise, made use of Unreal Engine to create a photo-realistic recreation of London's Carnaby Street in the 1960s, engaging users with interactive elements based on Twiggy's memories of the time.[54]
Honours
She was appointed a
Personal life
Twiggy married American actor Michael Witney in 1977. Their daughter, Carly, was born in 1978.[21] They remained married until his death in 1983 from a heart attack.[56]
She met
On Twiggy's official website, she states she is a supporter of
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1971 | The Devils | Woman | Uncredited |
The Boy Friend | Polly | ||
1974 | W | Katie Lewis | |
1980 | The Blues Brothers | Chic Lady | |
There Goes the Bride | Polly Perkins | ||
1985 | The Doctor and the Devils | Jennie Bailey | |
1986 | Club Paradise | Phillipa Lloyd | |
The Little Match Girl | Josie Roberts | TV movie | |
1988 | Madame Sousatzka | Jenny | |
The Diamond Trap | Det. Sgt. Charlie Lawson | TV movie | |
Sun Child | Fen Harris | TV movie | |
1990 | Istanbul (Keep Your Eyes Open) | Maud | |
1993 | Body Bags | Cathy Matthews | |
1997 | Something Borrowed, Something Blue | Eve Hamel | TV movie |
1998 | Brand New World | Viv | TV movie |
Television
- Twiggs (1974)
- Twiggy (1975)
- The Muppet Show (1976) (episode 21)
- Victorian Scandals (1976)
- Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas (1977)
- The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour (1978)
- The Donna Summer Special (1980)
- A Gift of Music (1981)
- Yorkshire Television(December 1981)
- Young Charlie Chaplin (1989)
- Princesses (1991)
- Tales from the Crypt (1992) (1 episode)
- The Nanny(1994) (1 episode)
- Heartbeat (1994) (1 episode)
- Absolutely Fabulous (2000–2001)
- This Morning (presenter) (2001)
- Take Time With Twiggy (host) (2001)
- America's Next Top Model (judge, cycles 5–9) (2005–2007)
- ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew (2005)
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (guest) (2008)
- Twiggy's Frock Exchange (2008)
- Alan Titchmarsh's Walks of Fame (2010) [61]
- Who Do You Think You Are? (episode 100) (2014)
- The People's History Of Pop (host, 1 episode) (2016)
- RuPaul's Drag Race UK (judge, 1 episode) (2019)
Stage
- Cinderella, Casino Theatre, London, (1974)
- The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, the Royal Albert Hall, London (1975)
- Captain Beaky and His Musical Christmas (pantomime), Apollo Victoria Theatre, London (1981)
- My One and Only, St. James Theatre, New York (1983–1984)
- Blithe Spirit, Chichester Festival Theatre, (1997)
- Noel and Gertie, Bay Street Theatre, Long Island, New York, (1998)
- If Love Were All, Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City (1999)
- Blithe Spirit, Bay Street Theatre, Long Island, New York (2002)
- Mrs. Warren's Profession, on tour, England (2003)
Discography
Albums
- 1971 The Boyfriend (Original Soundtrack) (MGM Records)
- 1972 Twiggy and the Girlfriends (Ember Records)
- 1976 Twiggy (Mercury Records) (UK #33)[62]
- 1977 Please Get My Name Right (Mercury Records) (UK #35)
- 1977 Captain Beaky and His Band
- 1983 My One and Only (with Tommy Tune) (Atlantic Records)
- 2003 Midnight Blue (Eureka Records) (unreleased material from the 1980s)
- 2007 Heaven In My Eyes - Discotheque (Eureka Records) (unreleased material from the 1970s)
- 2009 Gotta Sing Gotta Dance (Stage Door Records)
- 2011 Romantically Yours (EMI Records)
Singles
- 1966 "Some Do Some Don't (Some Will Some Won't)" (with Anne) (Columbia)
- 1967 "Beautiful Dreams" (Ember Records)
- 1967 "When I Think of You" (Ember Records)
- 1971 "Zoo De Zoo Zong" (with Friends) (Bell Records)
- 1972 "A Room in Bloomsbury" (with Christopher Gable) (Columbia)
- 1976 "Here I Go Again" (Mercury Records) (UK #17)
- 1976 "Vanilla Olay" (Mercury Records)
- 1977 "Rings" ((UK #35) from her album Please Get My Name Right)
- 1977 "Please Get My Name Right" (Mercury Records)
- 1977 "I Hope We Get to Love in Time" (Mercury Records)
- 1977 "A Woman in Love" (Mercury Records)
- 1977 "Tomorrow is Another Day" (Mercury Records)
- 1978 "Falling Angel" (Mercury Records)
- 1985 "Feel Emotion" (Arista Records) (UK #81)
- 1986 "Diamond" (Arista Records)
- 1989 "Winter Wonderland" (Object)
Books and exhibits
- Twiggy, Twiggy: An Autobiography (1975), ISBN 978-0-246-10895-1
- Twiggy, Twiggy's Guide to Looking Good (1986), ISBN 978-0-00-636672-0
- Twiggy, Twiggy in Black and White (1997), ISBN 978-0-671-51645-1
- Emma Midgley, "London Swings Again With Ossie Clark Show At The V&A" (22 July 2003), Culture24
- Twiggy, Twiggy: Please Get My Name Right (2004), Word Power Books, ISBN 9784939102578
- Iain R Webb, Bill Gibb: Fashion and Fantasy (2008), foreword by Twiggy, ISBN 978-1-85177-548-4
- Twiggy, A Guide to Looking and Feeling Fabulous Over Forty (2008), ISBN 978-0-7181-5404-2
- The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May–August 2009
- Twiggy: A Life in Photographs, Terence Pepper, Robin Muir, and Melvin Sokolsky (2009), ISBN 978-1-85514-414-9
- Twiggy: A Life in Photographs, National Portrait Gallery (2009–2010)
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Further reading
- Conekin, Becky E (2012). "Fashioning Mod Twiggy and the moped in 'swinging' London". History and Technology. 28 (2): 209–215. S2CID 143701101.
- Gross, Michael. Model: The ugly business of beautiful women (Harper Collins, 2011).
- Sandbrook, Dominic. White Heat: A history of Britain in the swinging sixties (Abacus, 2015) pp 283–308.
External links
- 1967 Newsweek cover and Twiggy article
- Images of Twiggy, National Portrait Gallery
- "My Best Shot: Twiggy" by Barry Lategan
- Twiggy at IMDb
- Twiggy at the Internet Broadway Database
- Twiggy at Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Twiggy at Fashion Model Directory
- Twiggy interview in Swindle magazine
- "Twiggy: You Ask the Questions", The Independent
- "Twiggy: Fashion Icon Archived 22 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine" – slideshow by Life magazine
- Twiggy interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, 13 January 1989