Twiggy, Vogue October 1967, Cecil Beaton via
Twiggy by Cecil Beaton (1967)
Category Archives: Twiggy
Twiggy Wearing 1960s Street Fashion
Twiggy is best remembered as one of the first international supermodels and a fashion icon of the 1960s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2009 catalogue of Style: Model as Muse Embodying Fashion stated that:
“Twiggy’s adolescent physique was the perfect frame for the androgynous styles that began to emerge in the 1960s. The trend was manifested in a number of templates: sweet A-line dresses with collars and neckties, suits and dresses that took their details from military uniforms, or, in the case of Yves Saint Laurent, an explicit transposition of the male tuxedo to women. Simultaneously, under the rubric of ‘unisex’, designs that were minimalistic, including Nehru suits and space-agey jumpsuits, were proposed by designers such as Pierre Cardin and Andre Courreges, and, most famously in the U.S.A., by Rudi Gernreich.”
Twiggy has been photographed by such noted photographers as Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Melvin Sokolsky, Ronald Traeger, Bert Stern, Norman Parkinson, Annie Leibovitz and Steven Meisel.
Twiggy by Lewis Morley, bromide fibre print, 1965 via
Twiggy by Lewis Morley, bromide fibre print, 1965 via
Twiggy by Jim Gray, 1960 via
A Collection of Photos featuring Women Wearing Masks
Lee Radziwill at the plaza hotel at Truman Capote´s black and white ball, New York, 1966 via
Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow at Truman Capote´s black and white ball via
Edwige Feuillère via
Baroness Jean de L’espee attending masked ball, Paris, July 1946, photographed by David E. Scherman for LIFE Magazine via
Portrait by Brassai, Lilliput, March 1947 via
The Merry Widow by Lillian Basman via
Audrey Hepburn in How to Steel a mIllion via
A young Twiggy wearing a mask and peeking through the curtains of the Paris shop Torrente, Vogue 1967 via
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