‘I never wanted that 60s haircut’: Style icon Twiggy reveals she was just too shy to say ‘no’ to hairdresser who gave her signature chop when she was 16
- Twiggy, 70, reflected on her career on Jessie Ware’s Table Manners podcast
- Style icon revealed she was too shy to say no to her much-imitated crop hairstyle
- She was an unknown London school girl when she was given the trendy style
It was the hairstyle that helped launch her career in the Swinging Sixties.
But Twiggy says she never wanted the famous, much-imitated crop look – she was just too shy to say no.
The future supermodel was 16 and an unknown north-west London schoolgirl called Lesley Hornby when she was given the trendy experimental style by Leonard of Mayfair and had her picture taken by a professional photographer.
Twiggy, 70, reflected on the much-imitated crop hairstyle that helped to launch her career in the Swinging Sixties. Pictured: Twiggy in a photoshoot in 1966
Speaking on Jessie Ware’s Table Manners podcast, Twiggy (pictured) revealed she was too shy to say no to the trendy experimental style by Leonard of Mayfair
A fashion reporter noticed the image on the salon wall and featured her in an article as The Face of ’66. Twiggy, 70, told Jessie Ware’s Table Manners podcast: ‘I went in to have it shampooed and set and Leonard saw me and he said, “Let me do my new haircut on you”. I’d been growing my hair.
‘For a moment I kind of went, “I don’t know whether I want my hair cut”. But I was in this very posh salon in Mayfair so I was a bit too shy to say I don’t want it done, and I kind of nodded.
I was in a posh salon and I was a bit shy
‘The nickname Twiggy… my boyfriend’s brother used to call me to annoy me,’ she explained. ‘Once it was written in the paper it went stupid and within six months I was in Paris.’
Twiggy (pictured, in 2019) revealed her nickname was something that her boyfriend’s brother used to call her