'60s Supermodel Twiggy Recreates a Classic Photo - 56 Years Later

Do you know how many photo shoots I've done? [laughs]

Hi, Vogue, I'm Twiggy.

Today has been quite an extraordinary day for me.

Going back in time to recreate a shot by Bert Stern

that I did in 1967

with the lovely Campbell Addy photographing me

wearing luxury accessories from eBay.

It was quite magical, and you'll see the result.

This is the original.

You know, when you do a photo shoot,

you know, you can take 100 photographs.

90 don't work and suddenly that one pops out,

and that obviously was the one that popped out.

I appeared on 13 Vogue covers.

I hope it's a lucky 13. I think it is.

They bring back lovely memories when I look at them.

It kind of makes me laugh when people call me an icon.

I'm very, very used to people asking me about the '60s,

especially young people.

They're obsessed with the '60s. It's very flattering.

I mean, most of my fan mail I get, all over the world,

they're like between 16 and 24 or something.

They're really young, but they love the '60s.

I think it's a wonderful collaboration

that eBay have joined up with Vogue.

Sustainability and using vintage

is becoming a very big thing all around the world.

And that's lovely because fashion is circular anyway.

It goes round and comes around.

How did it all start? [laughs]

Well, I was a school girl. I was 16 years old.

Like all teenage girls at the weekend,

you know, we'd play with makeup.

And that's how I came up with

what is now quite famous Twiggy eye makeup.

I would wear it at weekends,

and a friend, of a friend, of a friend

who worked on a magazine saw me,

and she said, I wanna do some test shots of you.

And sent me to have my hair done.

He was a very famous hairdresser called Leonard.

And he saw me in the salon.

He came over and said, I wanna to cut your hair.

And I didn't really want my hair cut,

but I was too nervous to say, No, thank goodness,

[laughs] as I might not be sitting here today

because he cut my hair in that very famous little elfin cut

and sent me to have a photograph.

A very famous journalist in England saw it.

She said to Leonard,

I love the photograph, but who's the girl?

And he said,

She's a school girl and her nickname's Twiggy.

She said, I want to meet her. And I met her.

And then after about two and a half weeks

it was a whole page in a national newspaper saying,

Twiggy is the face of '66.

And that day my life changed forever. [laughs]

It's bizarre in a way to recreate something

that I did over 50 years ago.

Recreating the same look

wearing luxury accessories from eBay.

I actually remember the shoot quite well.

I was booked to work with Bert Stern.

He was the first Vogue photographer I worked with.

Working with Burt was always so much fun.

He was so lovely and so it wasn't like work.

Models before me would pose very elegantly.

They were these beautiful women,

and I was like this gawky kid, you know?

So, you know, I wasn't trained, I didn't know how to pose,

but I happened to be photogenic and he knew that,

so I think he just let me run.

You know, you became a free spirit.

And he would play music,

and I was probably pulling faces, and being silly,

and dancing, and knowing me, I probably went,

Oh God, like that and put my hand on my head.

And it actually looked amazing

'cause the watch and the bracelet,

and he'd capture that moment.

But he got it, and that was his magic.

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I was really excited because to work for Vogue

was always the pinnacle.

And there I was at 16 and a half,

and suddenly I'd gone from school,

to doing a few teenage magazines,

to working for American Vogue, which was unbelievable.

I mean, I don't think about it every day, quite honestly.

I mean, I live a quite a normal life, really.

I don't get up every morning and think, you know, Iconic.

[laughs]

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