Monday Muse: 1960s Models

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The most well known face of the 1960s has to belong to Twiggy. Leslie Lawson, nicknamed Twiggy thanks to her slim frame, began her career as a teenage model and became the face of the mod generation in the mid-1960s. Her iconic androgynous look characterized by her large eyes, long eyelashes, and short hair contributed to her long extremely successful career.





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Colleen Corby began modeling at the age of 11. She appeared on a record fifteen 'Seventeen' covers during the 1960s. Her popularity as a model in the 1960s was through the roof. "She appeared in TV commercials, magazines and catalogs. Corby was most closely associated with Seventeen magazine, appearing on an unprecedented 15 covers in the 1960s (five times in 1964 alone) and in the magazine's fashion spreads almost every month." Unfortunately her popularity declined when she became too old for the teen market.





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Jean Shrimpton was another superstar of the ’60s. She was a British model and actress who became an icon of the mod era. She is known as one of the world’s first supermodels, appearing on the covers of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Elle, Ladies’ Home Journal, Newsweek, and Time magazines to name a few.







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Celia Hammond "was a model in the 1960s, and has since become known as a campaigner against fur and for neutering of cats to control the feral population. Hammond was a successful fashion model in the 1960s, working for Vogue magazine ,notably forming a close working relationship with photographer Terence Donovan. At first happy to model fur, she later became concerned about the cruelty of the fur trade and took a stand against fur."







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Peggy Moffitt was a highly recognized fashion model in the 1960s, known for her asymmetrical haircut and dramatic makeup style. She was muse to Rudi Gernreich and made international headlines while wearing his designs She was most often photographed by her husband William Claxton.