Reed Girl - Model Twiggy

Twiggy - real name Lesley Hornby. The 60s - the era of youth riots - when many young people did not want to adapt, obey, abandon themselves, they wanted to live in pleasure. They rebelled against the authority of parents, church and state, and began to search for new values. Such conflicts between generations have always occurred. It was unusual that young people not only protested, but also created new values, a new culture.

Of course, in this era, a new ideal of female beauty... At that time, the types remained popular Audrey Hepburn and Brigitte Bardot. But the embodiment of the new ideal was the model Twiggy - a sixteen-year-old Englishwoman weighing only 45 kilograms with a height of 169 cm.She was born in a suburb of London, at the age of 16 Twiggy met the hairdresser Leonardo and became the face of his beauty salon. Twiggy's first shoot as a short-haired model was done by Barry Lategan. It was he who came up with a memorable pseudonym for Leslie Hornby - Twiggy.

One of the journalists of the London newspaper saw the picture of Twiggy in the shop window of the salon and published her portrait in the newspaper called "The Face of 1966". In the same year, Twiggy became the most popular model in the world.

After working as a model for only three years, she became so rich that at the age of 19 she was able to retire. Twiggy - translated as a thin twig, was the first model that became the idol of millions. When she went out in public, crowds gathered around her.

Twiggy's model for many years in a row she remained the undisputed queen of fashion models. She was the first fashion model to pioneer a process that made models an integral part of pop culture alongside musicians and actors.

Twiggy best reflected the image that breathes youth and purity.