British model, actress and singer (born 1949)
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Dame Lesley Lawson DBE | |
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Twiggy engage 2023 | |
Born | Lesley Hornby (1949-09-19) 19 Sep 1949 (age 75) Neasden, Middlesex, England |
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Years active | 1966–present |
Spouses | Michael Witney (m. 1977; died 1983)Leigh Lawson (m. 1988) |
Children | 1 |
Modelling information | |
Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) |
Hair colour | Blonde |
Eye colour | Blue |
Agency | Models 1 |
Dame Lesley Lawson (néeHornby; born 19 September 1949), widely known alongside the nickname Twiggy, is implication English model, actress, and chanteuse.
She was a British folk icon and a prominent adolescent model during the swinging '60s in London.
Twiggy was first known for her thin construct and the androgynous appearance ostensible to result from her rough eyes, long eyelashes, and hence hair.[1][2] She was named "The Face of 1966" by primacy Daily Express[3] and voted Island Woman of the Year.[4] Alongside 1967, she had modelled wear France, Japan, and the Make problems, and had appeared on say publicly covers of Vogue and The Tatler.
Her fame had width worldwide.[4]
After modelling, Twiggy had boss successful career as a wall, stage, and television actress. Show someone the door role in The Boy Friend (1971) earned her two Yellow Globe Awards. In 1983, she made her Broadway debut fall to pieces the musical My One plus Only, for which she accustomed a Tony nomination for Unqualified Actress in a Musical.
She later hosted her own additional room, Twiggy's People, in which she interviewed celebrities, and appeared pass for a judge on the authenticity show America's Next Top Model. Her 1998 autobiography Twiggy utilize Black and White entered decency best-seller lists.[3] Since 2005, she has modelled for Marks favour Spencer, appearing in television advertisements and print media.
She has been credited for the company's successful revival at that interval.
Lesley Hornby was inherited on 19 September 1949 highest raised in Neasden (originally amuse Middlesex, now a suburb clamour north-west London).[5] She was honesty third daughter of Nellie Lydia (née Reeman), a factory working man for a printing firm, charge William Norman Hornby, a leader carpenter and joiner from Lancashire.[6] Their first daughter, Shirley, abstruse been born 15 years earlier; their second, Vivien, had back number born 7 years earlier.[citation needed] According to Twiggy, her paternal grandfather was Jewish.[7] However, bitterness mother's genealogy, which was examined on the series Who Criticize You Think You Are? compel 2014, does not contain Somebody ancestry.[8]
Twiggy's mother taught her make available sew from an early file.
She used this skill cheer make her own clothing.[9] She attended the Brondesbury and Kilburn High School.
Twiggy is one of the be in first place international supermodels and a means icon of the 1960s.[10] Renounce greatest influence is Jean Shrimpton,[11][12] whom Twiggy considers to affront the world's first supermodel.[12] She has said she based yield "look" on Pattie Boyd.[13] Scant herself has been described tempt the successor to Shrimpton.[1][14][15][16]
In Jan 1966, aged 16, she esoteric her hair coloured and knock down short in London at Author of Mayfair,[17] owned by star hairdresser Leonard.[18] The hair hairdresser was looking for models concern whom to try out cap new crop haircut and purify styled her hair in orders for a few test mind shots.[19] A professional photographer Barry Lategan took several photos solution Leonard, which the hairdresser hung in his salon.
Deirdre McSharry, a fashion journalist from leadership Daily Express, saw the carbons copy and asked to meet illustriousness young girl.[20]
McSharry arranged to put on more photos taken. A uncommon weeks later, the publication featured an article and images chivalrous Hornby, declaring her "The Endure of '66".[10][21] In it, probity copy read: "The Cockney mollycoddle with a face to arrange a thousand shapes...
and she's only 16".[22]
Hornby's career quickly took off.[21] She was short bring a model at 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m), weighed six point cardinal stone (41 kg; 91 lb) and difficult a 31–23–32 (79–58–81 cm) figure, "with a new kind of smooth, androgynous sex appeal".[23][24] Her stylist boyfriend, Nigel Davies, became reject manager, changed his name suggest Justin de Villeneuve, and trustworthy her to change her fame to Twiggy (from "Twigs", repel childhood nickname).[25] De Villeneuve credits himself for Twiggy's discovery reprove her modelling success, and surmount version of events is generally quoted in other biographies.
Resolve her 1998 book Twiggy Contain Black and White, she says that she met Justin nibble his brother, when she stiff as a Saturday girl kid a hairdressers in London. That is where she began pick on see the models in blue blood the gentry magazines, but never thought she could do something like defer. Jean Shrimpton was her lead, so she grew her curls long to look like torment, before having to have hang in there cut off for her headshots by Barry Lategan.[19][26] Ten her senior, De Villeneuve managed her lucrative career for digit years, overseeing her finances remarkable enterprises during her heyday primate a model.
Twiggy was anon seen in all the lid fashion magazines, commanding fees tactic £80 an hour, bringing complicatedness her own line of dress called "Twiggy Dresses" in 1967,[27] and taking the fashion earth by storm.[28] "I hated what I looked like," she spoken once, "so I thought person had gone stark raving mad."[21] Twiggy's look centred on yoke qualities: her stick-thin figure, top-notch boyishly short haircut and noticeably dark eyelashes.[29] Her signature air was achieved in part unreceptive applying three layers of unfactual eyelashes.[30]
One month after the Daily Express article, Twiggy posed all for her first shoot for Vogue.
Since then she has developed on the cover of А la mode (and numerous international editions) 14 times.[31]
Twiggy arrived in New Royalty in March 1967 at Airdrome Airport, an event covered from end to end of the press.[32]The New Yorker, Life and Newsweek reported on say publicly Twiggy "phenomenon" in 1967, jar the New Yorker devoting about 100 pages to the subject."[19][33] That year she became high-rise international sensation, modelling in Author, Japan and America,[4] and alighting the cover of Paris Vogue in May, the cover hold US Vogue three times, tag April, July and November, become calm the cover of British Vogue in October.[29] In 1967, upshot editorial on page 63 provision the edition of 15 Pace of Vogue described her chimp an "extravaganza that makes depiction look of the sixties" Shrivelled up was, according to feminist connoisseur Linda Delibero, "the most observable commodity Britain produced that crop, and [America] generously complied hint at the hype, scarfing up underweight little Twiggy pens, Twiggy eat boxes, Twiggy lashes, an throng of Twiggy-endorsed cosmetics".[34]
The Urban Museum of Art's 2009 index for its exhibition TheModel thanks to Muse: Embodying Fashion stated:
Twiggy's immature physique was the perfect framing for the androgynous styles divagate began to emerge in class 1960s.
The trend was manifested in a number of templates: sweet A-line dresses with collars and neckties, suits and dresses that took their details devour military uniforms, or, in dignity case of Yves Saint Laurent, an explicit transposition of interpretation male tuxedo to women. In days gone by, under the rubric of "unisex", designs that were minimalistic, containing Nehru suits and space-agey jumpsuits, were proposed by designers specified as Pierre Cardin and Andre Courreges, and, most famously fell the United States, by Rudi Gernreich.[35]
Twiggy has been photographed impervious to such noted photographers as Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Melvin Sokolsky, Ronald Traeger, Bert Stern, Golfer Parkinson, Annie Leibovitz and Steven Meisel.[28]
Twiggy and the magazines featuring her image polarised critics let alone the start.
Her boyishly adulterate image was, and still level-headed, criticised for allegedly promoting high-rise "unhealthy" body ideal for women.[36][23] "Twiggy came along at dialect trig time when teen-age spending dominion was never greater," said Su Dalgleish, fashion correspondent for picture Daily Mail.
"With that small, boyish figure, she is unsullied idol to the 14- most recent 15-year-old kids. She makes goodness of all the terrible weird and wonderful of gawky, miserable adolescence."[37] Think the height of her repute, Mark Cohen, president of City Women's shop, had an unexcitable harsher view: "Her legs bring back to me of two painted worms." Yet Twiggy had her celebrated.
Diana Vreeland of Vogue acknowledged, "She's no flash in goodness pan. She is the mini-girl in the mini-era. She's luscious looking."[37] In recent years, Thin has spoken out against class trend of waif-thin models, explaining that her own thin capability as a teenager was natural: "I was very skinny, however that was just my flamboyant build.
I always ate logically – being thin was quick-witted my genes."[38]
On 10 December 1969, despite being 20 years lower the temperature, Twiggy was selected as depiction subject for one of say publicly first editions produced by River Television of the television array This Is Your Life.[citation needed]
After four years of modelling, Underweight retired in 1970, stating, "You can't be a clothes come what may for your entire life!"[39] She broke off with Justin getupandgo Villeneuve, who had been supervisory her business affairs since 1966, and released him from fulfil duties as her manager, claiming in later years that "her career had more to hullabaloo with that famous picture imbursement her with those funny motley eyelashes, which appeared in honesty Daily Express under the column 'The Face of '66'" rather than with his promotional efforts.[26]
She has stated several times that she is only really remembered form her modelling career although give you an idea about was "only a short pin down of my life".
She began to develop a film society through her weekly visits nominate Ken Russell's house; they would watch old films together, which featured Greta Garbo, Clark Wall, and other Hollywood actors bear actresses. This began to compromise Twiggy a new outlook grouping the way she dressed take precedence the way she wore reject hair; she began wearing splendid beret, longer skirts, and floret as the hippie look was beginning to take over Writer.
Ken and Twiggy worked insignificance a film together, called The Boy Friend (1971), after habit a performance of the initial musical, staged by Ken's mother's amateur dramatics group.[citation needed]
Twiggy subsequently embarked on an acting bear singing career, starring in smart variety of roles on flat and screen, and recording albums.
In 1971 she made in return film debut as an remainder, dressed as a male train-bearer, in Ken Russell's The Devils. The same year, she unmixed her first leading role although Polly Browne in Russell's modification of Sandy Wilson's pastiche break on 1920s hit musicals, The Boyhood Friend (1971). This marked be involved with initial collaboration with Tommy Tweak and won her two Halcyon Globe Awards in 1972 (New Star of the Year – Actress and Best Actress look a Musical or Comedy).
Very in 1971, Twiggy released significance single "Zoo de Zoo Zong", written by Roger Cook leading Roger Greenaway and credited hinder Twiggy and Friends. In 1974, she made her West Award stage debut in Cinderella; sense a second feature, the nonsense W (co-starring with her vanguard husband Michael Witney); and hosted her own British television additional room Twiggs (later renamed Twiggy).[citation needed]
In 1973, she appeared with King Bowie on the cover engage in his seventh album, Pin Ups.
which entered the UK graph on 3 November 1973 pointer stayed there for 21 weeks, peaking at No. 1. She was also name-checked ("She'd breathe like Twig the wonder kid") in Bowie's song Drive-In Sat for his Aladdin Sane album.[40]
In October 1975, she sang discuss the live performance of Roger Glover's The Butterfly Ball countryside the Grasshopper's Feast album pound the Royal Albert Hall insert London.
The concert was filmed and produced by Tony Klinger and released to cinemas constrict 1976. In November 1976, she made an appearance on The Muppet Show, in which she sang the Beatles song, "In My Life".[41] In 1976, she signed to Mercury Records endure released the albums Twiggy enjoin Please Get My Name Right, that contained both pop duct country tunes.
Twiggy sold bargain well, peaking on the UK charts at No. 33, give orders to gave Twiggy a silver run through the photocopier for good sales. The baby book contains Twiggy's top-20 hit one and only, "Here I Go Again". "Please Get My Name Right" prefab it to No. 35 bind 1977. The single, "A Girl in Love", failed to tabulation for Twiggy in 1977 however was a hit for loftiness Three Degrees in 1979.
Translucent also sang some of nobleness songs in the first sum total of Captain Beaky and Fulfil Band in 1977.
In 1978, the television distribution arm infer American International Pictures, in double-cross effort to gain additional aggregation value in the US ploy the LWT rock music rooms Supersonic, repackaged the musical dealings with Twiggy replacing Mike Mansfield's introductions.
The new series, styled Twiggy's Jukebox, ran in virtually of the major television bazaars in the US during honourableness 1978–79 TV season. Coincidentally, Diluted had performed "Here I Healthier Again" and "Vanilla Olay" periphery Supersonic in September 1976, add-on these performances were included get going the refurbished programme.
After dignity initial season, Twiggy left ethics series, and American International Importune continued Jukebox with Britt Ekland as host, using standard theme videos rather than clips unearth Supersonic. Twiggy appeared in "There Goes the Bride" with Negroid Smothers in 1979.[citation needed]
In 1980, Twiggy made a cameo influence in The Blues Brothers.
She starred as Eliza Doolittle pretend 1981, opposite Robert Powell, play a role the Yorkshire TV production work Pygmalion. In 1983, she obligated her Broadway debut in influence musical My One and Only, starring and co-staged by Fighter Tune, for which she attained a Tony nomination. She stiff opposite Robin Williams in ethics 1986 comedy Club Paradise.
Remove 1987, she played a extravaganza performer in the British correspondents special The Little Match Girl, and in 1988, she emerged in a supporting role awarding Madame Sousatzka opposite her rapidly husband, Leigh Lawson. In 1989, she was cast as Hannah Chaplin, mother to Charles, pull off the British television movie Young Charlie Chaplin, aired in influence United States on PBS' WonderWorks.
In 1991, she co-starred occupy her first American network graphic television series, the short-lived CBS sitcom Princesses. Of eight episodes completed, only five aired. (Her Princesses co-star, Fran Drescher, late spent some time with Thin and her family in England while developing Drescher's hit heap The Nanny, and modelled influence character Maxwell Sheffield on Twiggy's husband Leigh Lawson.)[42][43]
In 1993, Inadequate appeared alongside Mark Hamill be given the short segment "Eye" overexert 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 probity Chichester Festival Theatre revival slant Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit. Dinky year later, she played Gertrude Lawrence in the biographical habit revue Noel and Gertie turnup for the books Bay Street Theatre in Fade Harbor, Long Island.
In 1999, she returned to the Advanced York stage in an off-Broadway production, If Love Were All, a revised version of Noel and Gertie, written and determined by Leigh Lawson; what irritable this edition apart were well-fitting tap numbers in period agreement. She starred as Gertrude Writer opposite Harry Groener's Noël Coward.[citation needed]
In 2001, Twiggy co-hosted greatness British magazine programme This Morning.
In 2003, she released substitute album, Midnight Blue. Seventeen time off the CD's 20 tracks abstruse previously unreleased material from 1982 to 1990, including a saltation with Leo Sayer, "Save class Last Dance for Me", captain a cover of the Smooth Stones' "Ruby Tuesday". Two carp the tracks ("Feel Emotion" lecturer "Diamond") had been issued in the same way singles in the mid-1980s.
Confined 2005, she joined the ominous of the television show America's Next Top Model for Cycles 5–9 as one of match up judges, and a year ulterior, she appeared on the insert of the "Icons" issue custom Swindle magazine. She also complementary to modelling, fronting a important television, press, and billboard crusade for Marks & Spencer, rectitude British department-store chain.
Her condition in the advertising campaign has been credited for Marks swallow Spencer's successful revival.[44]
In 2006, she portrayed herself as a 19-year-old in the radio play Elevenses with Twiggy, for BBC Cable 4's The Afternoon Play heap. She did not return problem America's Next Top Model bind its tenth season due secure scheduling conflicts.[45] Her replacement was model Paulina Porizkova.[46] Also throw 2007, Sepia Records released out previously shelved album, Heaven assume My Eyes ["Discotheque"], that Uncommon recorded in 1979, produced by means of Donna Summer and Juergen Koppers.
In 2008, she supported primacy "Fashion Targets Breast Cancer" movement in support of Breakthrough Bust 1 Cancer, alongside fellow celebrities – comedian Alan Carr, singer Natalie Imbruglia, competitor Anna Friel, and broadcaster Edith Bowman.[citation needed] She also arrived in Marks & Spender's 2008 Christmas ad campaign alongside Myleene Klass, Lily Cole, and others.[47]
In the summer of 2009, picture beauty products company Olay debuted its "Definity Eye Cream" drive depicting Twiggy.
Accusations of airbrushing created a stir with influence media and public. A site campaign set up by Jo Swinson, the Scottish Liberal Populist MP, attracted 700 individual complaints.[48]Procter & Gamble admitted to lesser retouching and replaced the turning up. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) announced that the ad gave a "misleading" impression, but dump no further action was prearranged because the image had by then been withdrawn.
Its announcement said:
However, we considered that primacy post-production re-touching of this finish, specifically in the eye balance, could give consumers a false impression of the effect interpretation product could achieve. We estimated that the combination of references to "younger looking eyes", counting the claim "reduces the illustration of wrinkles and dark nautical fake for brighter, younger looking eyes", and post-production re-touching of Twiggy's image around the eye square footage, was likely to mislead.[48]
Twiggy remains in the forefront receive fashion for women of arrangement age.[49] She was one confiscate the few famous celebrities become avoid being cut from glory Marks & Spencer fashion uniform in 2009–2010, when Dannii Minogue joined her for the spring/summer women's wear campaign.[50][51]
In 2010, she started a Home Shopping Screen fashion line called the "Twiggy London" collection.[52]
On 21 November 2011, she released an album, Romantically Yours, through EMI.
A egg on of pop and easy heedful standards spanning several generations, birth album features versions of specified compositions as "Bewitched, Bothered submit Bewildered", "Blue Moon", "My Epigrammatic Valentine", "Someone to Watch Glance at Me" and "They Can't Capture That Away from Me", stomach London anthem "Waterloo Sunset".
Probity album also includes a visitant vocal appearance by Twiggy's lassie, Carly Lawson, on Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart", a guitar solo hunk Bryan Adams, and a replace of Richard Marx's "Right With respect to Waiting" featuring duet vocals fretfulness the American songwriter himself. Neat 2012, she worked alongside Symbols & Spencer's designers to equip an exclusive clothing collection cooperation the M&S Woman range.[53] Welloff 2016, archive images of Thin as a rail, alongside images of Shrimpton plus Jane Birkin, were used nurture Tod's Fall/Winter campaign.[54]
On 22 Nov 2022, actress and filmmaker Sadie Frost teamed up with Unsatisfying rare to create an interactive beneficial documentary about Twiggy's life.[55] Collision 16 May 2023, the documentary's final scene was produced preserve at Cannes Marché du Husk Festival (the Cannes Film Festival) 2023, in just 48 noontime, using the on-site virtual producing stage of film studio, Ep Soho.
Alongside this, a viable virtual experience by metaverse cast list, Hadean, and live event image solutions provider, disguise, made eat of Unreal Engine to inscribe a photo-realistic recreation of London's Carnaby Street in the Decennary, engaging users with interactive smattering based on Twiggy's memories medium the time.[56]
A jukebox musical family unit on Twiggy's life titled Twiggy The Musical was written challenging directed by Ben Elton president had its world premiere habit the Menier Chocolate Factory, Author in September 2023 (originally primate Close-Up: The Twiggy Musical).
Make a fuss will tour the UK outsider September 2025.
She was equipped a Dame Commander of description Order of the British Commonwealth (DBE) in the 2019 Virgin Year Honours for services attend to fashion, to the arts nearby to charity. Her appointment arised in The London Gazette spoils her married name, Lesley Lawson.[57]
Twiggy married American actor Archangel Witney in 1977.
Their female child, Carly, was born in 1978.[19] They remained married until empress death in 1983 from systematic heart attack.[58]
She met Leigh Lawson in 1984.[3] In 1988, they worked on the film Madame Sousatzka and married that day in Sag Harbor, New Royalty (on Long Island).
The combine reside in Kensington, London[59] plus own a home in Southwold, Suffolk.[60][61]
On Twiggy's official website, she states she is a well-wisher of breast cancer research, organism welfare, and anti-fur campaigns.[3] She was one of the celebrities, including Tom Hiddleston, Jo Caste, E.
L. James, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Rachel Riley, to found and sign her own token for the UK-based charity Saint Coram Foundation for Children. Nobility campaign was launched by crafting company Stampin' Up! UK, shaft the cards were auctioned talking to on eBay during May 2014.[62]
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