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1960s

Twiggy

The face that defined Swinging London

Twiggy (Lesley Hornby) became the most photographed model of 1966 at sixteen years old. Her short crop, painted eyelashes, and androgynous frame anchored an entire decade of British fashion editorial and made the modern teenage supermodel a category. Her single-year run at peak visibility produced more reference images than most models accumulate across a career, and her style has been quoted continuously since.

Face shape: Oval (see flattering cuts)

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Signature looks

  1. The Twiggy crop

    A short layered cut with feathered movement and a side part, cut by Leonard of Mayfair in 1966. The look that turned a teenage model into a global cover face.

    Flatters an oval faceFlatters a heart-shaped face

  2. The pixie with eyelash-fringe

    A version of the crop styled with the fringe pushed away from the face, paired with the painted lower lashes Twiggy made signature.

    Flatters a heart-shaped faceFlatters an oval face

  3. Sleek blow-dried bob

    A grown-out version of the crop styled into a sharp, glossy bob worn through her later modelling and acting work.

    Flatters an oval faceFlatters a long (oblong) face

Fashion signatures

  • Mini dresses with empire waists
  • Painted lower eyelashes
  • Mod-era striped tops
  • Ankle boots and knee-high socks
  • Op-art prints and bold geometric shapes

Why their style endures

Twiggy compressed an entire visual era into a single face. The crop that Leonard cut for her in 1966 remains one of the most-referenced short cuts in editorial styling, and the painted lower-lash look has come back into beauty rotation in multiple decades since. Her contribution was structural: she made it possible for a model to read as androgynous and teenage and still anchor a magazine cover, a position the industry assumed at the time required a different body and a different age.

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