Lesley Hornby found her true calling in 1966 as the world’s first supermodel; today she’s known by her childhood name Twiggy. With her twig like figure, boyish hair cut and unusually long eye lashes, Twiggy created an image that would change the modeling world. Twiggy soon became an idol for millions of teenage girls of the sixties revolution. By the age of 17, Twiggy was already one of the most famous and recognizable faces on the planet.

  Twiggy’s fame officially began on a January afternoon in Leonard’s hair salon in Mayfair;

  “I was in the salon for about seven hours and they were cutting and coloring it, it was all extremely exciting for me.” Twiggy remarked “He was brilliant, I went from this mouse like brown to the color which I have kept now.”

  After the haircut, Twiggy met with a man who would ultimately change her future; Barry Lategan. Barry, world famous photographer, had worked with many models over the years, but none quite like Twiggy;

  “She appeared with this short hair cut which was an extraordinary transformation in her because her face came out more prominently and she’s got a beautifully modeled face, totally well proportioned and there was something very new to me because she had painted her own eyelashes below her eyes and this was something no one had been doing or had done, she sat in front of the camera and it was dazzling…”

   After the photo shoot, Twiggy’s photos were displayed in Leonard’s salon. Deidre McSharry of the Daily Express took one look at the photos and asked, “Who is this girl?” She then proceeded to call Twiggy and schedule an interview, the article appeared in the Daily Express exclaiming that she was the new ‘Face of 1966’, and so the Twiggy phenomenon began. 

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