Leslie 'Twiggy' Hornby
"At 17 Leslie Hornby took hold of the world. At 21 she let it go, she was the original waif, a 60's phenomenon a superstar. She was Twiggy" (Vogue). Leslie Hornby was the revolutionary woman who changed the idea of beauty in the eyes of the fashion industry and the entire world. Twiggy exemplified the androgynous mod look that swept America as it had Britain and much of Europe in the 1960's. She healthily maintained a 5 ft 6 1/2 inch 90 lb body. Based on her thin figure, a nickname of "Twiggy" was derived. Twiggy's popularity not only produced many people who tried to look like her but also drastically increased the hourly wages of models. She paved the way for current top models like Kate Moss, Elle MacPherson, and Linda Evangelista.Twiggy was major trendsetter in America during the sixties even though she was born in England. She was found by Nigel Davies in a salon, while working as a shampoo girl. He saw her potential and immediately took her to get a haircut at a Mr. Leonard's trendy salon in London. Mr. Leonard put her picture in his shop window, and a short time later that picture was featured in the London Daily Express with a caption that read "This is the face of 1966" (Wilson). Davies, who pref
They were almost completely opposite. If these models are exemplars of ideal beauty, then the measure for women is that to be beautiful, starvation level is required. Her popularity allowed her to drastically increase a models income. Once again Twiggy paved the way for models like Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, and Naomi Campbell all of which opened highly successful restaurants, and made exercise tapes, clothes, calendars, posters, and many other products. The average 90's woman is approximately 5'5 and weighs 150 lbs. Twiggy is one of those girls who has an extremely high metabolism and is healthy but just cannot gain weight. When asked what she thought of her figure as "the thing of the future" she replied "it's not really what you call a figure, is it" (Wilson)? Twiggy, as well as thousands of other teenagers, went through years of thinking of themselves as ugly. After he discovered her, he (age 25) became Twiggy's (age 15) agent and boyfriend. Once again Twiggy set the standard for 90's top models to earn outrageous sums of money. The doctors concluded that the thinness was just a result of her body type and couldn't be helped. Over three-fourths of professional models have body weights below normal (Women's Health Weekly). ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. On March 20,1967 the second she stepped off the plane she was swarmed by fans, and was candy to the media's eyes. Her slenderness was natural, and everyone should not set their physical goals to that of hers, because it is physically impossible.
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