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Dame Lesley LawsonDBE(néeHornby; born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer, widely known by the nicknameTwiggy. She was aBritish cultural iconand a prominent teenage model during theswinging sixtiesin London. Twiggy was initially known for her thin build and theandrogynousappearance considered to result from her big eyes, long eyelashes, and short hair.She was named \"The Face of 1966\" by theDaily Expressand voted British Woman of the Year.By 1967, she had modelled in France, Japan, and the US, and had landed on the covers ofVogueandThe Tatler. Her fame had spread worldwide.After modelling, Twiggy enjoyed a successful career as a screen, stage, and television actress. Her role inThe Boy Friend(1971) brought her twoGolden Globe Awards. In 1983 she made her Broadway debut in the musicalMy One and Only, for which she earned aTonynomination forBest Actress in a Musical. She later hosted her own series,Twiggy\'s People, in which she interviewed celebrities; she also appeared as a judge on the reality showAmerica\'s Next Top Model. Her 1998 autobiographyTwiggy in Black and Whiteentered the best-seller lists. Since 2005, she has modelled forMarks and Spencer, most recently to promote their recent rebranding, appearing in television advertisements and print media, alongsideMyleene Klass,Erin O\'Connor,Lily Cole, and others. In 2012, she worked alongside Marks & Spencer\'s designers to launch an exclusive clothing collection for the M&S Woman range. esley Hornby was born on 19 September 1949 and raised inNeasden(originally inMiddlesex, now a suburb of north-westLondon). She was the third daughter of Nellie Lydia (néeReeman), a factory worker for a printing firm, and William Norman Hornby, a master carpenter and joiner from Lancashire:Their first daughter, Shirley, had been born fifteen years earlier; their second, Vivien, had been born seven years earlier.[According to Twiggy, her maternal grandfather was Jewish. However, her mother\'s genealogy, which was examined on the seriesWho Do You Think You Are?in 2014, does not contain Jewish ancestry. Twiggy\'s mother taught her to sew from an early age. She used this skill to make her own clothingShe attended theBrondesbury and Kilburn High School. Twiggy\'s great-great-grandmother, Grace Meadows, died in a stampede of excitable shoppers at a bargain sale at Messrs McIllroys store on Mare Street, in Hackney, in 1897. This event made the news at the time. Twiggy is best remembered as one of the first international supermodels and a fashion icon of the 1960s. Her greatest influence isJean Shrimpton, whom Twiggy considers to be the world\'s first supermodelShe has said she based her \"look\" onPattie Boyd. Twiggy herself has been described as the successor to Shrimpton. In January 1966, aged 16, she had her hair coloured and cut short in London atLeonard of Mayfair,owned by celebrity hairdresser Leonard. 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.A professional photographerBarry Lategantook several photos for Leonard, which the hairdresser hung in his salon. Deirdre McSharry, a fashion journalist from theDaily Express, saw the images and asked to meet the young girl.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\". In it, the copy read: \"The Cockney kid with a face to launch a thousand shapes... and she\'s only 16\".Hornby\'s career quickly took off. She was short for a model at 5ft 6in (1.68m), weighed eightstone(51kg; 110lb) and had a 31–23–32 (79–58–81cm) figure, \"with a new kind of streamlined, androgynous sex appeal\"Her hairdresser boyfriend, Nigel Davies, became her manager, changed his name toJustin de Villeneuve, and persuaded her to change her name to Twiggy (from \"Twigs\", her childhood nickname). 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 bookTwiggy 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 Shrimptonwas her idol so she grew her hair long to look like her, before having to have it cut off for her headshots byBarry Lategan.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, and taking the fashion world by storm.\"I hated what I looked like,\" she said once, \"so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.\" Twiggy\'s look centred on three qualities: her stick-thin figure, a boyishly short haircut and strikingly dark eyelashes. Her signature look was achieved in part by applying three layers of false eyelashes. One month after theDaily Expressarticle, Twiggy posed for her first shoot forVogue. A year later, she had appeared in 13 separate fashion shoots in internationalVogueeditions.Twiggy arrived inNew Yorkin March 1967 atKennedy Airport, an event covered by the pressThe NewYorker,LifeandNewsweekreported on the Twiggy \"phenomenon\" in 1967, with theNew Yorkerdevoting nearly 100 pages to the subject.\"That year she became an international sensation, modelling inFrance,JapanandAmerica,and landing the cover of ParisVoguein May, the cover of USVoguethree times, in April, July and November, and the cover of BritishVoguein October. In 1967, an editorial on page 63 of the edition of 15 March ofVoguedescribed her as an \"extravaganza that makes the look of the sixties\" Twiggy was, according to feminist criticLinda Delibero, \"the most visible commodity Britain produced that year, and [America] generously complied with the hype, scarfing up skinny little Twiggy pens, Twiggy lunch boxes, Twiggy lashes, an assortment of Twiggy-endorsed cosmetics\". TheMetropolitan Museum of Art\'s 2009 catalogue for its exhibitionTheModel as Muse: Embodying Fashionstated: Twiggy\'s adolescent physique was the perfect frame for the androgynous styles that began to emerge in the 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 from military uniforms, or, in the case ofYves Saint Laurent, an explicit transposition of the male tuxedo to women. Simultaneously, under the rubric of \"unisex\", designs that were minimalistic, including Nehru suits and space-agey jumpsuits, were proposed by designers such asPierre CardinandAndre Courreges, and, most famously in the United States, byRudi Gernreich.Twiggy has been photographed by such noted photographers asCecil Beaton,Richard Avedon,Melvin Sokolsky,Ronald Traeger,Bert Stern,Norman Parkinson,Annie LeibovitzandSteven Meisel.