The Twiggy Phenomenon
Twiggy is now in her early 70s (72 as of 2021), and looking back on her iconic look, she says she pretty much hated it. “I was this funny, skinny, little thing with eyelashes and long legs, who had grown up hating how I looked,” she admitted.
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She and perhaps her jealous haters were the only ones who thought the world had “gone mad.” The girl’s face was plastered on the covers of Vogue and Tatler by the time she turned 17. Once the British model hit the United States, the “Twiggy phenomenon” had officially begun.