Twiggy: The Woman Behind the Icon,” arrives in America

 



When 16-year-old Lesley Hornby, the British model known for her skinny frame, freckles, blond pixie cut and blue eyes fringed with heavy false lashes, was discovered in 1966 by a fashion editor, her look hit like a lightning bolt.

Twiggy, as she was instantly renamed, was nothing like the models popular at that time — sultry, mature, upper class-coded women like Jean Shrimpton. She was from a working-class family — her father was a carpenter. At 5-foot-6 she was petite and almost childlike.

“I didn’t look like the models of that day,” Twiggy, now nearly 77, said over coffee last week at Bottino restaurant in Manhattan. “Girls from working-class families didn’t become models.”

ImageA black-and-white close-up of a young Twiggy with short, light hair. She has prominent eye makeup with long lashes, wearing a collared shirt and jacket.
Discovered in 1966 at just 16, when a fashion editor stumbled upon some photos of her, Twiggy’s look hit like a lightning bolt.Credit...PA Images/Getty Images

But a new era was dawning in the 1960s; music and fashion were all about youth, openness and social mobility. Twiggy seemed to embody London’s youthquake, and its mod scene, telegraphing fresh energy and new possibilities.

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