Twiggy Biography Born Lesley Hornby to working class parents, she was the girl gifted with the cute face who went on to become Twiggy, the female persona of London in the swinging Sixties and the world's first Supermodel.
Twiggy oh my goodness. She was my model hero. I was in my teens when we first noticed her in America. I was skinny like her, I was a natural blonde. I went and had my hair cut just like hers. And dressed as close to her as I could. Twiggy I'll never forget you. As you came up on Goggle. I just had one big smile. Thank you for my teenage years!!!
Ain’t it the truth…we all wanted the “look”! Those were the days! I will be 68 on Sept 3rd but when I watch this and see her, it all comes back to me…..you feel young again just looking at her.
Woody was burning on intellectualism with that bit. Watch *Woody Allen stuck on a movie line* , a 3min scene from Annie Hall Funny how it's the pseudo leftist intellectuals who are the PC police who inflate humor into hate and inflate hate into humor. Woody's movies attempted to teach intellectuals to make fun of themselves, instead they've become Hitler in 2024.
😂😂😂😂😂 she has a shitload of botox. You are talking about fillers - which is a completely different thing. But hey... why not scream loudest when having no idea - common thing today
She has had no botox, every muscle in her face is moving. She can frown, lift her eyebrows... trust me, I DO have Botox and can’t use those muscles. Wish I had such a beautiful skin 😍
+dandylioness Yes, he is a creep, he proves it here in the 'interview' term used loosely as he is determined to make a young girl named Twiggy look foolish. He is an A-class A-hole!
Twiggy was EVERYTHING! in the 60's when we lived in London, influencing every fashion conscious girl. We are all in our 70's now, but look back with fond memories. We ❤️you, Twiggy.
I never took notice before, but Twiggy , starting off as a model in about 1966 and like you said "we're all in our 70's now, then you were all in the same age group as Steve Marriott of the Small Faces, when they were big, from 1965 to 1969? ( I guess you can tell I was and still am a Small Faces fan, especially a fan of Steve Marriott).
Wham 1980's Crazy Fan When she has been airbrushed yeah but if you see her in real life as i did, she kind of looks like a woman who is nearing seventy but she is all natural, no botox, facelifts for Twiggy and when we stopped to say hello, nice to meet her etc she was very friendly, very natural and when i said we come from Watford, she thought it was hilarious and was cackling away. lovely lady .
The early Twiggy closely resembled Edie Sedgewick, who actually predated her a bit with a very similar look. Fortunately, Twiggy was not mentally unbalanced and got through her experience sensibly and successfully. And didn't die young.
I am completely glad I watched this. I've always thought she was amazingly beautiful, but I don't think many of us knew how incredibly smart and sensible she is. She obviously has standards that she lives up to and to be as relevant today as she was when she started is a very great accomplishment. I don't really ever expect to get on RU-vid and find a 'Whatever Happened to Twiggy' video. When she leaves public life, if she ever does, she'll do it because she wants to and on her terms. That's a true and very valid successful existence.
I love twiggy she was adorable then and adorable now I think I liked her best with her short hair I think she should cut it now it suits her much sweet face
I LOVED TWIGGY AT 10 YEARS OLD AND MY MOM GOT ME A TWIGGY LUNCH BOX! THIS WAS THE DAYS OF 3 T.V. STATIONS AND YOU WAIT FOR MAGAZINES SHOWING TWIGGY :>) NO INTERNET AND SO I COULDN'T GET ENOUGH OF SEEING HER PICTURES. FUN :>)
I have so many more songs and documentaries of Twiggy on my RU-vid channel. If you are interested, then browse my RU-vid channel for so much more from Twiggy. Good luck.
Twiggy was the first model to become a household name, therefore making her the world's first supermodel. The fact that she was not model standard height of 5'9-5'11 and was only 5'6 was great. Women could identify with her.
I don't recall that models were particularly tall back then. 5ft 6in would have been about standard, I think. I went for some interviews for modelling as a teenager in the 60s and I was 5ft 6in, and this was never raised as an issue - although perhaps surprisingly, I was told a couple of times I was a bit too thin and would have to put on some weight to fit into stock dress sizes! ETA: But maybe this was after Twiggy had set a new standard - for height, if not for weight.
I agree !! I just love her !! She was my hero !!.Im only 5'2" !! & I styled my makeup and I wore minis after Twiggy!! 👀😍 this "Biography" video made me feel good !! Shes amazing...still !
I do want Twiggy to continue her success in fashion and music. For the last 9-ish years, I have been waiting for Twiggy to release a new musical album based on 1950s Rock 'N' Roll. I own all of Twiggy's musical and vocal albums.
One of my best gal pals looked so much like Twiggy and when she deliberately emulated the Twiggy look, it was simply astonishing, like the perfect doppelgänger. Twiggy was all the rage, but don’t forget Suzy Parker & Jean Shrimpton before her - Twiggy did’nt! I love how Twiggy always stayed humble and down to earth.
She just seems like a really nice lady. Very vibrant and I like that she stays with the times. She didn't peak in the 60's and then stay there. Good for her.
Jean Shrimpton was a supermodel, before Twiggy. She did her own makeup, too. And Twiggy herself says The Shrimp was a huge international star, before her.
There's a lot of rubbish said about Twigs, all you need to know is she was and is one of us, which is why everyone loves her, NO drugs NO scandal, NO bs, straight and down to earth
Cesare Vesdani. I am spanish. Twiggy is known in my country and I reckon it is not easy if you were born in 1949. In my country magazines write Twiggy or Leslie was the prelude of Kate Moss. I don't want to rush but Twiggy seems more sensible than Moss.
I was a teenager in the 60’s and Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton were my favorite models. An incredible time to be a teenager. Enjoyed buying magazines that featured them, and there were many. Wish I had all of them now!
@@CesareVesdani I actually may have botched that. I could have sworn the story growing up was that Peggy was Twiggy's personal assistant, but I literally just got off the phone with my dad and he just told me something I had never heard before - that Twiggy and Peggy were actually very good friends and owned a strip club together... which he "believes" was called The Pink Lady. I'm going to have to ask a few relatives to confirm that name though. Aunt Peggy was the wife of actor Paul Burke (from The Naked City), and she was actually a stand-in for Rosemary Clooney too. Pretty cool.
It was so wonderful to watch this documentary, I've always heard of her but didn't know that much about her having been born in 72 I kind of missed that boat but I'm so excited I learned about this today. Thank you so much for sharing this!
I agree, that's not just Nostalgia speaking. Even etruehollywoodstory had some great documentaries back in the day. I don't know what the hell happened to television, it's like everyone just got lazy and no one puts any work into anything anymore.
Could you PLEASE turn off the background music which isn't necessary so we can listen to what Leslie is saying? I am exactly the same age as Twiggy is now, 71 and I remember her so well and trying to look like her, buying Twiggy dresses in 1967 and wearing a shorter hairstyle.
Every time they talk about Twiggy and Tommy Tune, they show photos or clips of her with ex Royal Ballet Company dancer, Christopher Gable. What the hell??
Her appeal lies in that she Has got both feet on the ground, and has no illusions about herself. She will always be my # 1 Girl, from her early start to the present. Her attitude is Just utterly captivating!!!
Twiggy was cute, I didn't grow up in the sixties but my mother always talked about Twiggy. I just watched her in this John Carpenter movie called body bags, in the early 90s. She was older, at least in her early forties. To be honest, I thought she looked a lot better when she got older and had a little more meat on her then when she was that tiny pixie. Nevertheless an icon in fashion, but I definitely like her hair and her look when she got older. I wish you did more acting gigs!
THANK YOU SO MUCH ! FOR THIS EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY ON LESLIE HORNBY aka TWIGGY ! SHE IS SUCH A WONDERFUL < DOWN TO EARTH > TALENTED AND FASCINATING WOMAN ! ALL MY LOVE AND BLESSINGS TO TWIGGY !
Will I do believe there is definitely truth to that. She didn't just make herself. Someone saw her look and then exploited it, and then she made it her own after a while. That's usually how it works. But it seems like she turned out to be a decent lady and didn't get full of herself and her looks.
One of the most beautiful faces ever. Gorgeous. I see alot of name dropping in these comments saying this person or that person came before her, then why is it she gets the credit? Obviously they’re all missing something while Twiggy brings it all together, her lips and blue eyes are like a work of art
There were no women like her before, nor after. That is a hoax. Twiggy is the greatest female personality of all time. She is 72 now and looks very beautiful still at her age. God bless Twiggy.
Sold her my car. She arrived with her husband, Leigh Lawson. Lovely people, very down to earth and polite and friendly. I did not even realise who they were till he left me a compliment slip and I Googled him. I somehow recognised her from the M&S advert but could not put 2 and 2 together just had a feeling I had seen her face before somewhere.
Absolutely fascinating. I hope you have more clips of her variety show back in the 70s. I'm curious to know why she's dressed up as a wooden soldier for an opening musical number.
Cesare vesdani Thank you Thank you Thank you ......Twiggy is the greatest model of all time and she had it all, great hairstyle, great face and look, great clothes......She personified the sixties. Love her.
I think one of her best works was her, at 49 years old, singing a kickass song for the movie Dead Man On Campus, where despite her age, that song of hers was just as great and awesome as the rest of the songs in that movie by younger artists. It was a great song for the main character where he was about to get laid with his girlfriend in that movie.
@@CesareVesdani You never know. Despite Tim Cappello having sung a memorable piece called "I Still Believe"" in the 1987 movie The Lost Boys, and yet not having come out with an album for many years, he finally came out with one in 2018, so yeah, you never know.
@@Steveman27 I agree with your point. I also hope that Twiggy releases a new album as soon as she can. I have been waiting for her to release an album since 2013.
I styled my eyes after Twiggy !! I just love her still !!💖 I'd trim my eye liner brushes down as thin as I could to paint those lower lashes !! I'd take forever to get my makeup done as much like hers as I could!!( luckily I have big enough eyes to be able to pull off such a look !!)👀 Yes! A Southern California girl , styled after Twiggy! Even had to have "Yardley of London" brand white frosted lipstick !!.I can't count how many times I got sent home from school for wearing mini skirts and dresses!! Lol !! 😆 🤣💕
Some of us were very tiny slim, petite short girls but very curvy. Yes we all wanted to look tall and willowy, just like Twiggy. We dieted and exercised to dangerous points but could never get 'the Twiggy look". I don't know what was in our brains back then. We didn't do drugs... We just thought the boys would love us if we looked like Twiggy. But they didn't seem to worry if we were curvy and had hips, boobs and a tiny 19inch waist,like I had(if only I could get my hips and boobs down to same size as my waist, I used to think, in despair...). Older women would look at us silly young ones trying to be like Twiggy and say "You look like a shapeless twig, a piece of floorboard or something...Not at all a womanly shape a real man would desire..."But we just dismissed such senior female comments as old bags talking who didn't have a clue about fine class and style.I admit to buying a Twiggy style dress and shortening it, to show off long legs. At least I had legs. And the boys would go "Wow! She's got legs that go up to her waist! Get a load of that!". We finally realised that we did not have to Twiggy like in order to score with the best of the lads...Thank God for that! And our mothers sighed with relief that we girls were not going to die of anorexia, after all...
