Twiggy
Dame Lesley "Twiggy" Lawson DBE (born Lesley Hornby on September 19, 1949 in Neasden, London Borough of Brent ) is a British model . She became known as a skinny teenage model in London in the swinging sixties and also works as an actress and singer .
Life
Twiggy was born Lesley Hornby in 1949 in Neasden, a suburb of London . Her parents are the carpenter William Norman Hornby and Nellie Lydia Reeman, who worked in a printing company .
At the age of 16, Lesley was best known through the influence of her friend and manager Justin de Villeneuve . The first model photos were taken by the photographer Barry Lategan and fell into the hands of the fashion editor of the Daily Express , Deirdre McSharry, who organized another photo shoot with the student. McSharry published the photos in the Daily Mail in 1966 under the title The Face of 1966 with the text "The Cockney kid with a face to launch a thousand shapes ... and she's only 16". After the photo series she was photographed for Vogue , followed by photo sessions with Richard Avedon , Cecil Beaton , Helmut Newton , Guy Bourdin and Norman Parkinson .
Soon she was "the face" of the Swinging Sixties in London and was nicknamed because of her spindly, youthful figure; Twiggy is the English diminutive form of twig = "branch", thus " little branch". It was considered the first supermodel in their teens and their character she later described themselves as too thin, was due to the thin calves, the straight legs and small, narrow feet after Diana Vreeland , the former editor in chief of American Vogue , as the Picture of the perfect body this time.
As she got older, she left Villeneuve and appeared as an actress and singer, for example in Ken Russell's 1971 film version of Boyfriend (Your Lover). The part of the Polly Brown, which necessarily a revue star wants to be, brought her 1972 a Golden Globe as best comedy and as best young actress a. Since then she has played a variety of different roles on stage and in film, including that of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (1981), with Robert Powell in a television production, and in 1993 in The Nanny as Jocelyn Sheffield # 1. She made a brief appearance in the film Blues Brothers .
The 1977 marriage with the American actor Michael Witney ended with his sudden death in 1983; their daughter, born in 1978, comes from the marriage. In 1988 Twiggy married actor Leigh Lawson.
Trivia
- Twiggy is the only guest star in an episode of the Muppet Show that was replaced in a segment in the German version by Mary Roos .
- In the fifth to ninth seasons of America's Next Top Model , she sat on the show's jury and judged the young models .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
 UK
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| 1976 | Twiggy |
UK33  (8 weeks)UK |
First published: July 1976
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| 1977 | Please Get My Name Right |
UK35 (3 weeks) UK |
First published: April 1977
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more publishments
- 1972: Twiggy and the Girlfriends
- 1983: My One and Only (with Tommy Tune)
- 2003: Midnight Blue
- 2007: Heaven In My Eyes
- 2009: Gotta Sing Gotta Dance
- 2012: Romantically Yours
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
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UK
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| 1976 | Here I Go Again Twiggy |
UK17 (10 weeks) UK |
First published: July 1976
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| 1985 | Feel emotion |
UK81 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: September 1985
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literature
- Sebastian Gradinger: The job of the photo model - the body as a communication tool . VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-5687-6 .
swell
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090924030803/http://www.nationsmemorybank.com/editorial/fashion_article_3.html
- ^ Claire Brayford: Twiggy: I know what women want. Express, April 12, 2012, accessed January 29, 2015.
- ^ A b "Twiggy" In: Paula Reed: 50 Fashion Looks of the 60s. Prestel, Munich 2013; P. 80. ISBN 978-3-7913-4784-4 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: UK
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
Web links
- Twiggy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Twiggy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Twiggy (official site, English)
- Jennifer Wiebking: Model Twiggy: "I was the first model of the working class" , interview on faz.net from September 20, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Twiggy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Twiggy Lawson; Hornby, Lesley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actress and model |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neasden (London Borough of Brent) , London, England |