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BRIAN VINER reviews Twiggy: A beguiling portrait of the waif with a trucker's laugh who defined the late Sixties
There were mononymous female stars before Twiggy. Cher, for example, was already famous by the time Nellie and Norman Hornby's youngest daughter Lesley was reinvented as Twiggy.
Other celebrated models of the era pop up to recall what happened next, as Twiggy's boyish 31-23-32 figure and her 'gender-fluid little elfin face', as Joanna Lumley puts it, made her the world's pre- eminent supermodel. Frost's documentary becomes steadily less interesting as she turns her gaze to the older Twiggy as the saviour of Marks & Spencer, the honour of being made a dame in 2019, and her long, seemingly blissful second marriage to actor and director Leigh Lawson. But the detail I have always loved is that the Crewe gang called themselves 'The Crewetons', thinking it made them sound hard, not that it evoked little fried cubes of bread floating on top of a wholesome soup.
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