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Twiggy: Modeling
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Twiggy was the anti-woman: she had no breasts, she wore white lipstick, her nails were bitten, her shoulders were bony and her hair was cut like a boy's. She was the negative image of everything a woman was supposed to look like. She was so skinny it was hard to tell she was a woman at all. Instead of a shirtwaist, she wore a skirt no bigger than a proper lady's pocket handkerchief. Instead of standing as if she were balancing a book on her head, she was knock-kneed and coltishly awkward. She was everything unfeminine in a way that seemed, mysteriously, totally girlish.
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Twiggy and Linda Thorson were two of the leading figures in bright young new generation of sixties women who dragged stuffy old post-war England into the modern world. Twiggy was the first "Supermodel" while Thorson succeeded Diana Rigg on "The Avengers", both as famous a part of the swinging sixties scene as the Beatles or the Stones or David Bailey.
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Twiggy modeled for less than four years, but her impact on the world of modeling and fashion was immeasurable. She made enough money to be named the highest paid model for the entire decade. She became the first mass-merchandised model, for which the Moscow Literary Gazette denounced her as a "tool of capitalism." In addition to her own line of clothing, which included Twiggy dresses and hosiery, there were Twiggy dolls, cosmetics, board games, lunchboxes, and more.
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While Twiggy paints a bevy of things, she is best known for her voluptuous femme fatales. With an eye for fashion and a mild obsession with glossy magazines, Twiggy claims women are the most fun to paint; dressing them in high couture, giving them fabulous hair styles and accentuating their best assets. Twiggy's girls never wait for a drink, don't need a date to celebrate and can get just about anything they want. Most of all, Twiggy’s girls emulate her own way of life: living out loud! Twiggy recently returned to Louisville, Kentucky from two years in Los Angeles where she sunbathed, painted and discovered how much she likes to dance. She can usually be found either painting in her studio with her kitten, Senor Rocco Frijoles or on the town with a vodka martini, extra chilled, in hand.
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Twiggy was born in north London on September 19th, 1949. She was named "The Face of '66" by the Daily Express. In the mid 60's at 16 years of age, Twiggy became internationally known as the world's first supermodel, her photographic modelling success epitomising the age.
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Twiggy was born in the London suburb of Neasden, the daughter of William Norman Hornby, a master carpenter and joiner, and Nellie Lydia "Helen" Reeman, a counter-girl at a Woolworth's store[1][2]and factory worker at a printing firm. She attended the Brondesbury and Kilburn High School in Salusbury Road, Kilburn.[3]
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