Lesley Hornby / TWIGGY 1st Edition 1975

  

That means I've had a decade of being Twiggy. First printing of the iconic Twiggy's own account of her rise to'gawky,''knock-kneed, pigeon-toed' youth-culture glory. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. Prudence Glynn said to us quite honestly,'Well, I don't think you'll ever make a model, you're too small.

Clothes will never fit you. Told in her own words, alternating with occasional italicized contrasting viewpoints from Justin de Villeneuve, Twiggy's sometime manager-boyfriend; though Twiggy makes a determined effort to be fair and kind, writing not long after their breakup, in later years she spoke more bluntly He was not my Svengali. " Parodied as "Icky" in contemporary comic strips, derided and complimented in the same breath for her slight stature, knock-knees, and "boyish looks, the mild-mannered and mostly un-scandalous Twiggy endured the projections and fantasies of a frantic multinational press corps and the adoration of a teen army thrilled to learn that extreme youth was no longer a burden but an aspirational quality: that teenagers were, for the first time, at the center of the fashion world and the center of the universe. As for the author herself, by the turn of the decade and the end of her teens, "Modeling had begun to bore me, and when you're bored it shows":Twiggy was off to star in a Ken Russell film; thence to Los Angeles and the warm company of Sonny and Cher; to brief stints in design and theatrical work, to new adventures. Original yellow cloth with silver-stamped spine.

In original price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated with black and white photographs; color frontispiece.

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