Swinging Sixties
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The Swinging Sixties was a youth-driven cultural revolution that took place in the United Kingdom during the mid-to-late 1960s, emphasising modernity and fun-loving hedonism, with Swinging London deno
A scene in Carnaby Street, in London's West End, c. 1966
Carnaby Street, c. 1968, which was the center of the Swinging fashion scene
The Mini became an icon of 1960s popular culture, and featured in the 1969 British caper film The Italian Job.
Twiggy
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Dame Lesley Lawson, widely known by the nickname Twiggy, is an English model, actress, and singer. She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenage model during the Swinging Sixties in London.
Swinging Sixties
…leaders of the British Invasion of musical acts; the mod and psychedelic subcultures; Mary Quant's miniskirt designs; popular fashion models such as Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton; the iconic status of popular shopping areas such as London's King's Road, Kensington and Carnaby Street; the political activism of…
Twiggy in 2023
Twiggy outside her North London home, 1966.
Twiggy in 1967, at the height of her early modelling career, showing the look that made her famous.
Twiggy with film director Ken Russell on set of The Boy Friend (1971)