In the sixties, his haircut style pixieher big eyes with impossible eyelashes and her pizpireta figure, very thin, almost androgynous, made her a star of the time: nothing less than an actress, singer and the first supermodel. But—or Leslie Lawson; his real name—lasted beyond a specific decade. At 76 years old, this Englishwoman born in London and raised in the suburbs of the capital is recognized as an icon of fashion and cinema, and retains a very clear vision of that highly romanticized era—among other things, for its cultural and visual legacy. In an interview for The Telegraph published last Monday, February 16, has looked back at its meteoric beginnings, recognizing, among other things, that “there was always a dark side in the 1960s.”
The statement derives from the perception that her younger followers have about those years that she represents: “Last week I received a letter from China, from a girl who loves the sixties. It makes me laugh, but I understand it. I think that those who did not live through it [aquella época] They remember it as magical. Not everything was magical: there was the Vietnam War and people died from overdoses, so there was always a dark side,” the British woman recalled in her conversation with the British newspaper.
Even so, the model, who currently still works for brands like Burberry, is able to see the positive side of those times, and even compare them with today: “On the surface, it seemed like a very happy, happy and free time to be young. There was a lot of hope, something that I don’t think many young people have today, which is quite sad. I don’t know what we are doing about it.”
The winner of two Golden Globes, as best actress and as a promising newcomer, for the film The groom In 1971 she lived between London and Suffolk, where she lived with her second husband, the actor and director Leigh Lawson. She is, as she herself explains during the interview, the proud grandmother of her daughter Carly’s two children, a boy and a girl, ages 5 and 10, respectively, for whom she makes their clothes, one of her great hobbies since she was a teenager and “I was obsessed with fashion”: “That’s my hobby, sewing. I love it,” she confesses.
Professionally, he has several projects in hand. He assures that he is recording an album—“an exciting project, because I haven’t done it in a while”—and wants to go on tour with an autobiographical theatrical musical, presented in London three years ago: “It was very emotional to see it, because it was my life on stage,” he told The Telegraph.
Among the fragments of that life that have gone down in history is the interview that film director Woody Allen did with her when she was 17 years old and he was 31. The model spoke about that uncomfortable conversation with the filmmaker when she presented last year in Barcelona Twiggythe documentary about her life made by actress Sadie Frost in 2024: “Seeing Woody Allen trying to humiliate me with his questions, I was horrified,”: “I was so scared that, without meaning to, I ended up making him look bad, for being the one who didn’t even know how to answer his own question. Being a teenager then meant being younger than someone in their teens is now, because the outside world was less present,” she recalled about what has become an example of misogyny of the time.
How does it count The TelegraphTwiggy’s wish now is that the models receive kinder treatment. Asked about her style references, the woman who helped define the fashion of more than one generation mentions two other women from very distant times: “When I was little, I thought that the most wonderful and best-dressed woman was . I would have loved to see myself and dress like that. From the current era, She always looks incredible. She sets her own style and it suits her wonderfully.”
