Just a wisp. Short and skinny. A boy’s haircut. Awkward poses. Lesley Hornby. A most unlikely fashion model yet perfect for a time and place that loved to smash the parapets. Who wants to be ‘normal’?
Twiggy by name and by nature. O those Margaret Keane eyes.
It was her very anomality that made you notice how much fun she was, how different
from steely-eyed glamazons glaring from Vogue covers. Fewer pretensions in a
Britain too poor for a class war. The candor of her gaze expelled irony. We
could join her at the party.
And of herself, she said, “I always describe her, 60s
Twiggy, as my little friend who sits on my shoulder.” How wonderful to stroll
the leafy lanes of life knowing that you have been, all along, indisputably,
irrefutably, perfectly, you.
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