She was transformed from schoolgirl Lesley Hornby to world famous model
Twiggy in 1966 after a journalist saw her photos in a Mayfair hair salon.
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Twiggy, right and actor Dominic Cooper, below left
More recently,
Twiggy has successfully turned to design, with a clothing and accessories ranges for Marks & Spencer and Specsavers.
But
Twiggy, who stormed the US 50 years ago, has been in the public eye since she was a teenager.
Model
Twiggy stands by the M&S garden at Chelsea
"Back in the '60s, there was a car sticker that read, 'Forget Oxfam, Feed
Twiggy,' but I ate like a horse," she said.
She was 16 years old and so stick thin that she was promptly nicknamed
Twiggy. "My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them.
It's hard to believe that it's just about 50 years since a teenage
Twiggy - then Lesley Hornby - was discovered by a photographer.
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Twiggy (above) changed the world of fashion when she broke into the modelling scene in the 1960s.
THIS isn't just any M&S fashion collection - it's
Twiggy's.
London, July 18 (ANI): Marks and Spencer has scrapped a set of ads that included model
Twiggy, former X-factor judge Dannii Minogue and singer VV Brown in a bid to revamp its appeal.