"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"""
"Judy Hornby Judy Hornby, also known as Judith Hornby, is a British-born American-based former model, fashion designer and boutique owner. In 1971 one of her ensembles, designed for her by Graziella Fontana, was chosen as the Dress of the Year. She then went on to become a successful American fashion designer. Hornby was originally a model, before entering fashion design and retail. She commissioned samples and garments from freelance designers such as Graziella Fontana. The Fashion Museum, Bath asked Serena Sinclair, voted Fashion Writer Of The Year in 1970, to choose the defining look for 1971 to add to their"
"with a face to launch a thousand shapes... and she's only 16"". Hornby's career quickly took off. She was short for a model at 5'6"" (167 cm), weighed eight stone (51 kg; 112 lbs) and had a 31-23-32 figure, ""with a new kind of streamlined, androgynous sex appeal"" Her hairdresser boyfriend, Nigel Davies, became her manager, changed his name to Justin de Villeneuve, and persuaded her to change her name to Twiggy (from ""Twigs"", her childhood nickname). De Villeneuve credits himself for Twiggy's discovery and her modelling success, and his version of events is often quoted in other biographies. In"
"Children. The campaign was launched by crafting company Stampin' Up! UK and the cards were auctioned off on eBay during May 2014. Twiggy is best remembered as one of the first international supermodels and a fashion icon of the 1960s. Her greatest influence is Jean Shrimpton, whom Twiggy considers to be the world's first supermodel. She has also said that she based her ""look"" on Pattie Boyd. Twiggy herself has been described as the successor to Shrimpton. In January 1966, young Lesley Hornby had her hair coloured and cut short in London at Leonard of Mayfair, owned by celebrity hairdresser"
"Stephen Burrows. ""Women's Wear Daily"" reported in 1994 that Hornby had stepped in to take over the Chicago-based Becky Bisoulis brand after Bisoulis fell ill. By 2005, Hornby had moved to Connecticut and opened an antiques shop there, also offering antique-buying trips to France for American collectors. Her husband, Jerry Larrabue, is a vintage watch dealer. Judy Hornby Judy Hornby, also known as Judith Hornby, is a British-born American-based former model, fashion designer and boutique owner. In 1971 one of her ensembles, designed for her by Graziella Fontana, was chosen as the Dress of the Year. She then went on"
"Erin O'Connor, Lily Cole, and others. In 2012, she worked alongside Marks & Spencer's designers to launch an exclusive clothing collection for the M&S Woman range. She was born Lesley Hornby on 19 September 1949, and was brought up in Neasden (then in Middlesex, now a suburb of north-west London). She was the third daughter of Nellie Lydia (""née"" Reeman), a factory worker for a printing firm, and William Norman Hornby, a master carpenter and joiner from Lancashire. Her maternal grandfather was Jewish. Their first daughter, Shirley, had been born fifteen years earlier; their second, Vivien, had been born seven"
"Carolyn Murphy Carolyn Murphy (born August 11, 1973) is an American model and actress. In 1998, Murphy was named VH1/""Vogue""s Model of the Year. She played Dubbie in Barry Levinson's film ""Liberty Heights"". She was one of the ""Modern Muses"" on the November 1999 millennium cover of American ""Vogue"" and was chosen to represent Calvin Klein's perfume, ""Contradiction"". In 1998, during a photo shoot for ""Elle"", the photographer noticed her resemblance to the actress Gene Tierney and dubbed her ""The blonde Gene Tierney"". Murphy has shot campaigns for Missoni, Versace and Tiffany & Co. In 2005 she was featured on"
"Lesley Langley Lesley Langley (born 1944) is a British model, beauty queen and actress who was Miss United Kingdom and Miss World in 1965. She became the third woman from her country to win the title, and the second Miss United Kingdom in a row, thus becoming the second country to have back-to-back winners. Sweden was the first, winning the inaugural pageant in 1951 and the second pageant in 1952. She attended the Royal Merchant Navy School, near Wokingham, Berkshire, (now known as Bearwood College) in the 1950s. She played a small part in the film ""Goldfinger"" as well as"
"Corynne Charby Corynne Charby (born 12 July 1960) is a French actress, pop singer and model. Born Corinne Charbit in Paris, Charby grew up in France, and left school after the troisième (form 3). In the late 1970s, she began a successful career as a model.<ref name=""http://www.mcm.net/musique/ficheartiste/9041/"">Corynne Charby's biography MCM.net (Retrieved 10 February 2008)</ref> She appeared on the cover of major magazines such as ""Elle"" and ""Lui"" and participated in several runway shows for large fashion houses. In the early 80s, she began a brief career in cinema. Her first and probably best known role was in the 1981 film,"
"Lesli Kay Lesli Kay (born Lesli Kay Pushkin on June 13, 1965 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American actress, who is known primarily for her roles on the CBS soap operas ""As the World Turns"" and ""The Bold and the Beautiful"". At age 12, she had the first individual girl's bat mitzvah in the state of West Virginia. She moved to New York City at the age of 15 to pursue a modeling career. Kay later worked at MTV and won $27,500 on ""Wheel of Fortune"". In 1997 she made her daytime debut as Molly Conlan on ""As the"
"Lisette Model Lisette Model (born Elise Amelie Felicie Stern; November 10, 1901 – March 30, 1983) was an Austrian-born American photographer. Primarily known for the frank humanism of her street photography, exact details of Model's life remain unclear. What is known is that she was well known and respected in photographic communities during her life. She taught at the New School for Social Research in New York from 1951 up until her death in 1983 with many notable students, the most famous of which was Diane Arbus. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and still resides in several"
"Corinne Cole Lari Laine was the pseudonym briefly used by Corinne Cole (born April 13, 1937 in Brentwood, California), who is an American model and actress; she predominately used her real name in her acting career, however, after around 1959. Cole was born and raised in Brentwood, California, the daughter Alice and Carl S. Kegley, a criminal-trial attorney. She studied journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. She was ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the May 1958 issue, with her centerfold photographed by Ron Vogel. According to ""The Playmate Book"", Corrine Cole used a pseudonym for her"
"Tess Holliday Ryann Maegen Hoven (born July 5, 1985), known professionally as Tess Holliday and formerly known as Tess Munster, is an American plus sized model based in Los Angeles. Holliday was born and raised in Laurel, Mississippi. Her mother left her father when Holliday was a young child and Holliday claims her family moved forty times before she turned ten. In June 1995, her mother was paralyzed and disabled after she was shot twice in the head by her fiancé, who was charged with attempted murder. At the age of ten Holliday and her brother moved back to their"
"Colleen Corby Colleen Corby (born August 3, 1947) is a retired American model. She is best known for her work as a teen in the 1960s, as well as for her modeling work in department store catalogs from the 1960s and 1970s, including those of Sears, JC Penney, Montgomery Ward, and others. Corby's modeling career began in 1959 when she was eleven years old. Two weeks after walking into Eileen Ford's modeling agency (ostensibly to look for a summer job), Corby was sent on her first modeling assignment. By the end of that first summer, she was steadily booking assignments"
"She returned to the catwalk in Australia in 2006, though struggled to find regular work as a model following the publicity from her arrest. In 2007, she launched a line of clothing for dogs, and the following year, began a career as an interior designer. Leslie was born in Adelaide, South Australia to Albert and Violeta Leslie. Violeta was a nurse and one of 12 siblings born in The Philippines. Albert played for the Australian basketball team at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and met Violeta while on a layover in The Philippines before traveling to the Olympics. Violeta emigrated to"
"a Thal in the ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Daleks"". Lesley also became the front cover in 1967 on Weymouth's Official Holiday Guide, with photos inside. During her tenure she met and married Jazz organist Alan Haven and they had one daughter named Chloë. They divorced and Lesley later worked as a Dental practice assistant. Lesley Langley Lesley Langley (born 1944) is a British model, beauty queen and actress who was Miss United Kingdom and Miss World in 1965. She became the third woman from her country to win the title, and the second Miss United Kingdom in a row, thus"
"in 2008. Hensley was born in Price, Utah. She was found dead of an apparent overdose, in the bathtub at a friend's home in Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 2014. Cassandra Lynn Cassandra Lynn Hensley (née Jensen, previously D'Elia, August 15, 1979 – January 15, 2014) was an American model and is ""Playboy's"" Playmate of the Month for February 2006. At age eighteen, Hensley moved to Newport Beach, California to study to become an aesthetician. She also opened a tanning salon and did some modeling. After placing in the Top 20 in a Hawaiian Tropic pageant, she submitted photos"
"June Kirby June Kirby is an American actress and costume designer. She was a student at the Kingston Art School (now Kingston University). In 1936, Kirby was a member of a dance troupe that performed ""under the auspices of the Federal Theatre Project."" Kirby also worked as a model. In 1946, she was named ""posture queen of America"" by the National Chiropractic Association. She was in at least four movies and did wardrobe for many more. She was in ""Famous Models Magazine"" dated June 1950, as well as many others. She had a stint as a Goldwyn Girl and appeared"
"Cassandra Lynn Cassandra Lynn Hensley (née Jensen, previously D'Elia, August 15, 1979 – January 15, 2014) was an American model and is ""Playboy's"" Playmate of the Month for February 2006. At age eighteen, Hensley moved to Newport Beach, California to study to become an aesthetician. She also opened a tanning salon and did some modeling. After placing in the Top 20 in a Hawaiian Tropic pageant, she submitted photos to ""Playboy"". It was not until the second time she submitted photos that she received a callback and became a Playmate. She made an appearance on the television series ""Bikini Destinations"""
"Leslie Brooks Leslie Brooks (born Virginia Leslie Gettman, July 13, 1922 – July 1, 2011) was an American film actress, model and dancer. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, her parents brought her to Southern California at an early age, where around 1940 she started work as a photographic model. At the beginning of her showbiz career she appeared as Lorraine Gettman. As Leslie Brooks, she began appearing in movie bit roles for Columbia in 1941. Brooks started landing more sizable parts in such movies as ""Nine Girls"" (1944), ""Cover Girl"" (1944), and the lead in the film noir classic ""Blonde Ice"""
"is the fashion model Lucie de la Falaise (born 1973). Oswald Birley Sir Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley (31 March 1880 – 6 May 1952) was an English portrait painter and royal portraitist in the early part of the 20th century. Birley was born on 31 March 1880 in New Zealand to Hugh Francis Birley (1855–1916) while his parents were on a world tour. He was born into an old Lancashire family. Upon returning to England, he was educated at Harrow School, London and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was the great-grandson of Hugh Hornby Birley (1778–1845), who led the troops at"
"she and her husband Harry Wexner opened a women's clothing store named Leslie's (after their son) on State Street. This store became the training ground for Leslie ""Les"" Wexner. In 1963, he borrowed $5,000 from his aunt and $5,000 from the bank and opened a store at the Kingsdale Shopping Center in Upper Arlington, Ohio. This store was named ""The Limited"" because the store focused on clothing for younger women, unlike his parents' general merchandise store. Later in 1964, Bella and Harry closed their store to join their son in his venture. The original board consisted of only the three"
"them to The House of Leonard, where the hairdresser shaped their pudding basin fringes into the ‘moptop’ cut that swept the world. Paul remained a client for decades. In 1966, Justin de Villeneuve brought a 15-year-old girl called Lesley Hornby with the nickname ""Twiggy"", to see Leonard, knowing ""he was looking for models on whom to try out his new crop haircut"". It was to be Leonard's first big coup as he took eight hours to cut her hair, with Daniel Galvin colouring it. ""They kept drying it to see if it fell right. Those short haircuts have to be"
"Carole Ashby Carole Ashby (born 24 March 1955 in Cannock, Staffordshire) is an English actress and pinup girl. She appeared as a glamour girl in the British news media during the 1970s. In 1972, Ashby was named ""Britain's most glamorous schoolgirl."" Asby is best known for playing the small recurring part of Louise, a member of the communist resistance, in ""'Allo 'Allo!"". She appeared alongside Roger Moore in two James Bond films, ""Octopussy"" and ""A View to a Kill"". Her appearances were brief but they assured her Bond Girl status. She appeared in the 1981 hit movie ""Chariots of Fire""."
"Lois Hamilton Lois Hamilton (October 14, 1952 – December 23, 1999) was an American model, author, aviator, artist and actress. Hamilton was born Lois Aurino in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She studied at Temple University in her native Philadelphia before going on to the University of Florence in Florence, Italy, where she received degrees in Psychology and Fine Arts. Her looks brought an opportunity with the Ford Modeling Agency where she became one of its top models during the 1970s. Hamilton graced the covers of many magazines, including ""Cosmopolitan"", ""Fortune"", ""Mademoiselle"", ""Vogue Italia"", ""Prevue"", ""Neue Revue Illustrierte"", ""Newsweek"", ""Paris Match"", ""Hello!"", ""Redbook"","
"Leslie Herson Leslie Herson (November 2, 1942 – August 16, 2008) was an American businesswoman and artist. She is known for creating the cult vintage store Love Saves The Day or LSD, which operated in New York City's East Village from 1966 until 2009. She is credited for being one of the first to recognize the value of Kitsch items before flea markets became popular. She was born Leslie Bambi Kamerling in Brooklyn, and moved to Manhattan to attend New York University, where she graduated with a fine-art degree. In the early 1970s she operated a vintage store in Hawaii."
"Elizabeth Hurley Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965), more generally known as Liz Hurley, is an English actress and model. She has been associated with the cosmetics company Estée Lauder since the company gave Hurley her first modelling job at the age of 29. They have featured her as a representative and model for their products, especially perfumes such as Sensuous, Intuition, and Pleasures, since 1995. Hurley owns an eponymous beachwear line. As an actress, her best-known film roles to date have been as Vanessa Kensington in Mike Myers' hit spy comedy, """" (1997) and as the Devil in"
"Barbi Benton Barbi Benton (born Barbara Lynn Klein; January 28, 1950) is an American model, actress and singer. She is known for appearing in ""Playboy"" magazine, as a four-season regular on the comedy series ""Hee Haw"", and for recording several modestly successful albums in the 1970s. Since the 1980s, she has been semi-retired from show business to raise her children. Benton was born Barbara Lynn Klein in New York City, to a Jewish family. She moved with her parents to California when she was 2 years old. She grew up in Sacramento and attended Rio Americano High School. At the"
"the cover of the ""Sports Illustrated"" Swimsuit Issue. In July 2012, Murphy was hired to replace Angela Lindvall as host of """" on Lifetime, after Rosie Huntington-Whiteley dropped out for a film project. In 2012, Murphy was ninth on the ""Forbes"" top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $3.5 million in one year. As of 2015, Murphy and boyfriend Lincoln Pilcher practice Transcendental Meditation. Carolyn Murphy Carolyn Murphy (born August 11, 1973) is an American model and actress. In 1998, Murphy was named VH1/""Vogue""s Model of the Year. She played Dubbie in Barry Levinson's film ""Liberty Heights"". She was one"
"Carole Lesley Maureen Rippingale (27 May 1935 in Chelmsford, Essex – 28 February 1974 in New Barnet, London), known professionally as Carole Lesley, was a British actress who had a short but significant career as a ""blonde bombshell"". Lesley ran away from home at the age of 16, ""aiming to become a star"". She starred in several films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the 1957 film ""Woman in a Dressing Gown"", which won the 1958 Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film. She also appeared in ""No Trees in the Street,"" ""Doctor in Love"", ""Operation Bullshine"""
"reside in Riverton, New Jersey. Helen Williams (model) Helen Williams Jackson (née Helen Williams) is an American model. Working as a stylist in a New York photographer's studio, Williams was discovered at age 17 by celebrity clients such as Lena Horne and Sammy Davis, Jr. Her career began as an exclusive model for magazines such as Ebony and Jet. However, the discrimination she faced in the United States led her to relocate to France in 1960, where she found success modeling for designers such as Christian Dior and Jean Dessès. She returned to the U.S. in 1961 and despite initial"
"player and male model. Laciny was born to a teacher (mother) and a sailor (father), and spent his childhood in the district of Lichtenhagen in Rostock. A talented footballer, he played for the youth team of F.C. Hansa Rostock, that he still maintains a close relationship with. He played under Horst Hrubesch up in the U-17 squad of the German national football team. When he was discovered in 1999 during a trip to New York City by a model scout, he got model assignments all over the world.He worked for Diesel and Hugo Boss, among others, after which he discontinued"
"the summer of 1984, she allowed for filming to take place at the store. The film was ""Desperately Seeking Susan"", in which Madonna and Rosanna Arquette visit the store. Appearing in the film made the store even more popular. Many local artists and production designers came to Leslie for items used for film and stage sets. Inside the store, there was an autograph wall which contained signatures from some of the many famous visitors over the years, including Marc Jacobs, Joey Ramone, Alice Cooper, Björk, Kelly Osbourne, Tim Burton, Drea de Matteo, and Debbie Harry. The store was managed by"