"and dominated the London fashion scene and were well paid, unlike their predecessors. Twiggy became The Face of '66 at the age of 16. At this time, model agencies were not as restrictive about the models they represented, although it was uncommon for them to sign shorter models. Twiggy, who stood at with a 32"" bust and had a boy's haircut, is credited with changing model ideals. At that time, she earned £80 an hour, while the average wage was £15 a week. In 1967, seven of the top model agents in London formed the Association of London Model Agents."
"turn, she was Bailey's muse, and his photographs of her helped him rise to prominence in his early career. During her career, Shrimpton was widely reported to be the ""world's highest paid model"", the ""most famous model"" and the ""most photographed in the world"". She was also described as having the ""world's most beautiful face"" and as ""the most beautiful girl in the world"". She was dubbed ""The It Girl"", ""The Face"", ""The Face of the Moment"", and ""The Face of the '60s"". ""Glamour"" named her ""Model of The Year"" in June 1963. She contrasted with the aristocratic-looking models of"
"1965; Twiggy (b. Lesley Hornby, 1949), who became ""The Face of '66""; and Kate Moss (b. 1974), associated in the 1990s with the ""waif"" look and what, notably through an advertising campaign for Calvin Klein in 1997, became known as ""heroin chic."" Moss was part of a trend of ""wafer"" thin models which was satirized in Neil Kerber’s strip cartoon ""Supermodels"" in the magazine ""Private Eye"". Gamines share similarities with the modern, cinematic ""Manic Pixie Dream Girl"" stock character. Others who have been described as gamines include Danish-French actress Anna Karina (b. 1940); American actresses Julia Roberts (b. 1967) (she"
"and the ""embodiment of the 1960s"". Like Pattie Boyd, the wife of Beatles guitarist George Harrison, Shrimpton gained international fame for her embodiment of the ""British female 'look' – mini-skirt, long, straight hair and wide-eyed loveliness"", characteristics that defined Western fashion following the arrival of the Beatles and other British Invasion acts in 1964.<ref name=""Hibbert/HistoryOfRock""> Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required).</ref> Other popular models of the era included Veruschka, Peggy Moffitt and Penelope Tree. The model Twiggy has been called ""the face of 1966"" and ""the Queen of Mod"", a label she shared with, among others, Cathy McGowan, the host"
"Leonard. The hair stylist was looking for models on whom to try out his new crop haircut and he styled her hair in preparation for a few test head shots. A professional photographer Barry Lategan took several photos for Leonard, which the hairdresser hung in his salon. Deirdre McSharry, a fashion journalist from the ""Daily Express"", saw the images and asked to meet the young girl. McSharry arranged to have more photos taken. A few weeks later the publication featured an article and images of Hornby, declaring her ""The Face of '66"". In it, the copy read: ""The Cockney kid"
"model to appear on the cover of a ""Vogue"" magazine, the March 1966 British issue, shot by photographer David Bailey. According to the ""New York Times"", she was under exclusive contract to the photographer Richard Avedon for a year at the beginning of her career. An article in ""Time"" magazine published on April 1, 1966, ""The Luna Year"", described her as ""a new heavenly body who, because of her striking singularity, promises to remain on high for many a season. Donyale Luna, as she calls herself, is unquestionably the hottest model in Europe at the moment. She is only 20,"
"Leeds, she left for London. At the age of 18, she was spotted in London's Bond Street by top fashion photographer Helmut Newton who stepped out of a taxi and offered her a contract launching a decade-long international modelling career as Vikki Nixon in 1966. Subsequently she appeared in French, English, Italian and American ""Vogue"", ""Harpers Bazaar"", ""Glamour"", ""Nova"", ""19"" and ""Elle"". She was selected as the Daily Mail's 'Face of 68', Jean Rook described her as ""the grown up face of '68"" and someone who would ""set fire to the pages of the glossy magazines in the New Year."""
"Twiggy Lesley Lawson (""née"" Hornby; born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenage model in swinging sixties London. Twiggy was initially known for her thin build (thus her nickname) and her androgynous look consisting of big eyes, long eyelashes, and short hair. In 1966, she was named ""The Face of 1966"" by the ""Daily Express"" and voted British Woman of the Year. By 1967, she had modelled in France, Japan, and the US, and had landed on the covers of ""Vogue"""
"succeeded Neville Brody and Robin Derrick, actively pursued working relationships with young experimental photographers, including Corinne Day, Stephane Sednaoui, Nigel Shafran, David Sims and Juergen Teller, as well as stylists such as Melanie Ward. Bicker's decision to make the unknown 16-year-old Kate Moss ""the face of The Face"" gave the supermodel her first exposure, particularly on the front of the July 1990 issue entitled ""The 3rd Summer Of Love"". In May 1992, a High Court jury found in favour of a libel claim by Jason Donovan that ""The Face"" had imputed he was gay when he was not and awarded"
"the cover of US ""Vogue"" three times, in April, July and November, and the cover of British ""Vogue"" in October. In 1967, an editorial on page 63 of the edition of 15 March of ""Vogue"" described her as an ""extravaganza that makes the look of the sixties"" Twiggy was, according to feminist critic Linda Delibero, ""the most visible commodity Britain produced that year, and [America] generously complied with the hype, scarfing up skinny little Twiggy pens, Twiggy lunch boxes, Twiggy lashes, an assortment of Twiggy-endorsed cosmetics"". The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2009 catalogue of ""Style: Model as Muse Embodying Fashion"""
"ranked Rosier alongside Emmanuelle Khanh and Christiane Bailly as part of a ""new race"" of innovative and exciting young French designers, described as ""stylists who work for ready-to-wear."" Rosier, herself a keen skier, produced particularly distinctive ski-wear whose streamlined design was in stark contrast to previous models. In 1966 Eugenia Sheppard proclaimed that Rosier's slimline skiwear had ""defeated the old-time bulky teddy-bear look"". Other suits were made in quilted nylon velvet and vivid colours with detachable face panels such as the one featured on the front cover of ""Sports Illustrated"" magazine for 13 November 1967. She offered helmets with rotating"
"with cancer of the jaw and forced to take a nine-month sabbatical from work. On recovery he became editorial director at Wagadon, with Sheryl Garratt as editor of The Face and Dylan Jones editing Arena. In this period art director Phil Bicker, who had succeeded Neville Brody and Robin Derrick, actively pursued working relationships with young experimental photographers, including Corinne Day, Stephane Sednaoui, Nigel Shafran and David Sims, as well as stylists such as Melanie Ward. Bicker's decision to make the unknown 16-year-old Kate Moss ""the face of The Face"" gave the supermodel her first exposure, particularly on the front"
"Radio Caroline and Radio London, and from 1967 on BBC Radio One. During the Swinging Sixties, fashion and photography were featured in ""Queen"" magazine, which drew attention to fashion designer Mary Quant. Mod-related fashions such as the miniskirt stimulated fashionable London shopping areas such as Carnaby Street and King's Road, Chelsea. The model Jean Shrimpton was another icon and one of the world's first supermodels. She was the world's highest paid and most photographed model during this time. Shrimpton was called ""The Face of the '60s"", in which she has been considered by many as ""the symbol of Swinging London"""
"look-alikes 21-year-old Linda being the younger, prettier version. Linda, a successful Ford model who hails from a little town on Long Island, now is one of Europe's top models with her face currently, gracing the pages and covers of the slickest fashion, magazines, such as Italian Vogue, ""Elle"" and ""Jardin de la Mode""."" In 1966 Vidal Sassoon’s, stylist, Christopher Pluck created her signature style, a closely cropped asymmetric cut. Linda Morand appeared in international magazines including ""Vogue"", ""Glamour"", ""Mademoiselle"", ""Teen"", and ""Elle"". She also modeled for Lilly Pulitzer. In 1966, with photographer Gösta Peterson, she created images for Conde Nast."
"in ""Since"" (1966), ""Superboy"" (1966), ""Chelsea Girls"" (1966), ""**** (The 24 Hour Movie)"" (1967), and ""Midnight Cowboy"" (1969). She was, in Warhol's words, ""very beautiful"". A tall, long-necked brunette with graceful physicality, she impressed the artist deeply. She worked diligently on her personal cosmetics regimen, a process which Warhol observed with fascination: ""Watching someone like Susan Bottomly, who had such perfect, full, fine features, doing all this on her face was like watching a beautiful statue painting itself."" Susan Bottomly Susan Bottomly (born 1950), also known as International Velvet, is a former American model and actress. She is known for"
"described by NPR (National Public Radio) of as ""the first to show an Afrocentric beauty standard when millions of young women were casting about for a kind of beauty they could identify with and replicate."" Cheeseborough also appeared on the iconic cover of Funkadelic's 1971 release ""Maggot Brain"". Cheeseborough died on October 24, 2013 of colon cancer at the age of 67. Barbara Cheeseborough Barbara Cheeseborough (née Bowman) (March 14, 1946 – October 24, 2013) was an American fashion model of the 1960s and 1970s, known for promoting an ""Afrocentric"" style. Cheeseborough was born March 14, 1946 in Philadelphia, and"
"""Because she's a true model, pure and simple. She doesn't pretend or aspire to do anything else. She's just brilliant at what she does."" Fellow designer Stefano Gabbana said of Evangelista, ""Linda is ""the"" model. If you talk about models of the sixties and seventies, the first name is Veruschka. In the eighties and nineties, it's Linda."" David Bonnouvrier, one of the founders of DNA Model Management said, ""Linda is the model of all time, to its strictest definition. She could be out of a Cecil Beaton picture, she could be out of a Guy Bourdin picture."" Sozzani, the editor-in-chief"
"Barbara Cheeseborough Barbara Cheeseborough (née Bowman) (March 14, 1946 – October 24, 2013) was an American fashion model of the 1960s and 1970s, known for promoting an ""Afrocentric"" style. Cheeseborough was born March 14, 1946 in Philadelphia, and after her marriage to William Edward Cheeseborough, a fashion photographer, she moved to New York City to begin a career in fashion modelling. Her career spanned 20+ years and she appeared in ""Essence"", ""Bazaar"", ""Redbook"", ""Vogue"" and ""Cosmopolitan"" magazines. She famously appeared on the cover of the first issue of ""Essence Magazine"" in 1970. Her appearance on the cover of ""Essence"" was"
"dated painter Jack Youngerman for several years. In the mid-1960s, Frieberg appeared on the bottle of Clairol's hair product ""Great Body"". Frieberg also appeared in several advertisements, commercials, and merchandise for the Great Body conditioner. In February 1966, in an issue of the magazine ""Glamour"", the editors described Frieberg along with nineteen other models as a ""supermodel"", also adding that Frieberg was ""innocent, tall, and fresh."" That same year, Frieberg was the cover model for ""Glamour's Beauty Book"". Later in 1966, she appeared in the famous Ormond Gigli photo of the sixties' top Ford models. In 1968, Frieberg was featured"
"Sharon Tate"", with Hilary Duff playing the titular character. Notes Bibliography Sharon Tate Sharon Marie Tate Polanski (January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American actress and model. During the 1960s, she played small television roles before appearing in films and was regularly featured in fashion magazines as a model and cover girl. After receiving positive reviews for her comedic and dramatic acting performances, Tate was hailed as one of Hollywood's most promising newcomers. She made her film debut in 1961 in ""Barabbas"" with Anthony Quinn. She was seen next in 1966 with the occult-themed ""Eye of the"
"black models already. At some point, Harnett gained weight and underwent a mastectomy. Due to health concerns, she was later placed in a home for long-term care. According to fellow 1950s Ford model Betsy Pickering, Gerald W. ″Jerry″ Ford, founder of Ford Models, hospitalized Harnett for mental illness. Harnett died from injuries sustained in a fire at the home in May 1987 when she was 63. She was also an actress and appeared in the film ""Funny Face"". An ash blonde, she was a favorite model of photographer Richard Avedon, who served as a thinly veiled model for Fred Astaire′s"
"the ""Daily Express"" and a very influential lady in the fashion world”. Deidre McSharry then went on to feature Twiggy in the ""Daily Express"" newspaper as “The Face of 66” helping to launch her career. Leonard trained many of Britain’s leading hairdressers, including; Daniel Galvin, John Frieda, and Nicky Clarke. “He was a genius; his work was ahead of its time. To this day, many of London’s top stylists owe a debt of gratitude we can never fully repay,” Nicky Clarke was quoted as saying. Michael Gordon, founder of Bumble & Bumble, remembers him from 1969: “In his heyday Leonard"
"a wider range of contexts, and therefore, chose Bond's slim-cut orange, pink and yellow striped trousers, jacket and blouse for the Slimma label. The shoes were made by Saxone, also a widely-known and accessible High Street brand, although the hat was a custom one-off design by Edward Mann. 1967 marked the first time that the Dress of the Year was widely reported in the British fashion press, with Green contributing a significant article for the ""Mirror"" discussing her decision to select something that did not include an actual dress. The Adel Rootstein mannequin selected to model the look represented the"
"which appeared in the ""Daily Express"" under the headline 'The Face of '66' "" than with his promotional efforts. She has stated several times that she is only really remembered for her modelling career although it was ""only a short part of my life"". She began to develop a film interest through her weekly visits to Ken Russell's house; they would watch old films together, which included people like Greta Garbo, Clark Gable and other Hollywood actors and actresses. This began to give Twiggy a new outlook on the way she dressed and the way she wore her hair, which"
"green-to-clear visors (designed by Monique Dofny) and her ""stainless steel"" and silver suits in nylon and lurex were described as ""pure James Bond,"" and having ""cosmic flair."" Rosier also designed for ""White Stag"" in the USA, and ""Jaeger"" in the UK. One of her clear PVC raincoats for ""Young Jaeger"" was chosen by Ernestine Carter as part of the Dress of the Year for 1966, along with a Simone Mirman hat and a ""Young Jaeger"" black and white dress. She designed parachute jumpsuits for Raquel Welch to wear in the 1967 film ""Fathom"". In 1988, V de V was purchased"
"of ""Vogue Italia"" recounts that she would receive letters from readers concerned about ""what would happen to the magazine if Linda got sick. Because it was all about Linda Evangelista. Her face had the most possibilities."" Sozzani additionally stated, ""For me, she is the model, not only for her beauty, but her attitude, her intelligence."" Meisel, to whom Evangelista is his muse, considers her ""extraordinarily photogenic"". Fashion designer John Galliano has said that ""inspiration hasn't been the same without her. She is an enormous influence on all the photographers and stylists."" In his book ""Face Forward"", the late makeup artist"
"cover for the Beatles' album ""Revolver"" in 1966). John Lennon's wife Cynthia recalled that Kirchherr was fascinated by the Beatles' ""teddy-boy style"", but that they, in turn, were ""bowled over by her hip black clothes, her ""avant garde"" way of life, her photography and her sense of style"". As a result the group acquired black leather jackets, as well as fringed hairstyles that were the prototype of the ""mop-top"" cuts associated with ""Beatlemania"" in 1963-4. The latter coincided with the revival of the bobbed style for women, promoted in London by hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, initially for actress Nancy Kwan, and"
"with Tania Mallet, Hocking became one of Testino's favourite models as a representation of the ""early-60s Englishness"" that enhanced the Burberry brand. In 2002, ""The New York Times"" described Hocking and Mallet as ""grande dames"" who looked as good in Burberry fashion as their co-star, the young and glamorous Elizabeth Jagger. Hocking died in 2011 of cancer at the age of 81. She was survived by her daughter Wendy, also a model, and her son Julian. Jennifer Hocking Jennifer Hocking (1929–2011) was an Australian-born British-based fashion model in the 1950s and early 1960s, who then became fashion editor of ""Harper's"
"Evangelista, Patitz and Turlington were the original group to be regarded as ""The Big Five"" supermodels of the 1990s, The term ""The Big Five"" was later used to describe Campbell, Crawford, Evangelista, Turlington and Claudia Schiffer (replacing Patitz), and with the addition of Kate Moss, they became known as ""the Big Six."" In the 2006 book, ""In Vogue: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine"" (Rizzoli), the editors cite the ""original supermodels"" and Schiffer when quoting ""Vogue"" Magazine Editor-In-Chief, Anna Wintour, who said, ""Those girls were so fabulous for fashion and totally reflected that time ... [They]"
"the UK, she was discovered by photographer David Bailey, and as a result became the main model of the Queen's couturier Sir Hardy Amies. During a tough interview with top Italian photographer Fabrizio Ferrei, Hamilton was told her hair was too long for the job. She promptly cut her hair, got the job, and went on to learn the tricks of the trade at Ferrei's side. Hamilton reached the zenith of her modelling career at the age of 26, when she appeared in an iconic 1987 television advert for the Volkswagen Golf. ""Changes"" starred Hamilton, made up to resemble Diana,"
"and 1960s. Cooper would go on to found Wilhelmina Models modeling and talent agency in 1967. In February 1968, an article in ""Glamour"" described 19 models as ""supermodels"": Cheryl Tiegs, Veruschka, Lisa Palmer, Peggy Moffitt, Sue Murray, Twiggy, Sunny Harnett, Marisa Berenson, Gretchen Harris, Heide Wiedeck, Irish Bianchi, Hiroko Matsumoto, Anne de Zogheb, Kathy Carpenter, Jean Shrimpton, Jean Patchett, Benedetta Barzini, Claudia Duxbury and Agneta Frieberg. In the 1970s, some models became more prominent as their names became more recognizable to the general public. ""Sports Illustrated"" editor Jule Campbell abandoned then-current modeling trends for its fledgling ""Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue"""
"the May 1960 issue she was featured on the cover for an article about ""How to Look Like Sondra Peterson."" Peterson is the mother of writer Amanda Filipacchi. Sondra Peterson Sondra Peterson (born 1935) is an American model. She is best known for her work in the 1950s and 1960s appearing in major magazines beside other icons of the age like Veruschka von Lehndorff and Jean Shrimpton. Signed by Eileen Ford to the Ford Modeling Agency, she was photographed by leading photographers, including Francis McLaughlin Gill and Irving Penn. She was profiled in ""Eileen Ford's Book Of Model Beauty"". ""Seventeen"""
"(who, in 2011, named American singer Gwen Stefani as her style icon and was by then combining an independent professional career with the lifestyle of a ""Devon hippy"") and (notwithstanding an early tendency to be associated with photographic spreads for ""lads' magazines"") Rachel Stevens were both held up in the mid-noughties as exemplars of boho. So, a few years later, were Diana Vickers and another teenaged singer, Pixie Lott. Following an event in 2009, the ""Daily Mail"" commented about Vickers that[she] looked like a cross between a stylish sixties icon and a rambler as she donned a stunning backless dress"