A photograph of Twiggy (right) with Kerstin Lindberg, swinging round a lamppost in London, taken by Eatwell for the Daily Herald newspaper on June 3, 1967. Sixteen-year-old Lindberg was the Twiggy lookalike winner. The competition had been held in Stockholm, Sweden, with 800 women turning up for the chance to win and be taken to London to meet Twiggy.
Twiggy was discovered in a hairdressers in 1966, when she was sixteen. The world’s first supermodel, Twiggy’s face and naturally waif-like figure epitomized the era. By blending pop art with fashion, the doe-eyed, pouty-lipped gamine with the angelic puss and boyish crop took the industry by storm at age 17 defining the age of “flower power.” She originally was nicknamed “Sticks” because of her reed-thin figure, but then switched it to “Twigs” and, finally, “Twiggy.” Here are some more photographs of Twiggy posing with her lookalike Kerstin Lindber:
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