Writer and director Ben Elton tells story of woman who was ‘most famous teenager in the world’ in the 1960s
She was a teenager from Neasden when a photograph of her newly cropped hair catapulted her into a world of glamour and celebrity. “It happened almost overnight. One day I was an ordinary schoolgirl, and the next I was ‘the face of 1966’. It was madness but wonderful,” said Twiggy, the former model, actor and fashion designer.
Elton, who has written several other musicals and plays, said there was “a lot more [to Twiggy’s story] besides the fabulous glamour and ‘pizzazz’ of the 60s, and the Cinderella story of a single haircut that made a 16-year-old from Neasden the most famous teenager in the world”. Twiggy said: “I didn’t grow up thinking I wanted to be a model because it wasn’t in my consciousness. I grew up in a nice, working-class family. I was never aware that we didn’t have things, but we weren’t rich by any stretch of the imagination. And for girls like me, being a model wasn’t an option as a job.
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