BRIAN VINER: There's no-one like Twiggy - her new biopic reminds us how she broke the fashion mould without ever losing herself Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Brian Viner For Mailonline Published: 21:13, 18 October 2024 | Updated: 21:23, 18 October 2024 e-mail View comments 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 in 1966.
And there have been many since, such as Madonna , Adele and Beyonce . But none of those other single names evoke a time and a place – London in the Swinging Sixties – as powerfully as Twiggy does. And by far the most absorbing part of Sadie Frost ’s thoroughly enjoyable if rather gushing documentary, which had its world premiere last night (THU) at the London Film Festival, concerns those remarkable years.
Brian Viner says there's 'no-one like Twiggy' Twiggy pictured in December 1966, the same year she was dubbed 'The Face' by The Express newspaper In 1966, in the course of a few dizzying weeks, young Lesley went in her own words from being a ‘shy, introspective’ schoolgirl to one of the most recognisable people on earth. Read More Twiggy hangs up her mini skirt: Sixties model says she's 'too old' for shorts as she turns 75 Within a few more years she was famous enough to be a David Bowie lyric, in his song Drive-In Saturday. Frost’s previous documentary was about the designer Mary Quant, .