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	Twiggy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Lesley Hornby(twiggy) was born September 19, 1949 in Neasden a suburb located in the North of London.
		Lesley Hornby(twiggy) was born September 19, 1949 in Neasden a suburb located in the North of London.Lesley grew up like any normal child would in the 50’s with her two sisters Shirley and Viv.
		In the 60’s Lesley was a true ‘mod’, although she could not afford to buy the designer outfits sold in the boutiques of London she would still keep up with all the general fashion trends of the era.
	www.firn.edu /schools/alachua/alc/internet/56g/govindago2.htm (232 words)

	Twiggy
		Twiggy (born September 19, 1949) is a British actress, model and singer, now usually known by her married name of Twiggy Lawson.
		Born Lesley Hornby in Neasden, a suburb of London, she became famous at the age of sixteen, under the influence of her boyfriend and manager, Justin de Villeneuve[?].
		Soon she was regarded as "the face" of swinging 1960s London, and gained her nickname from her stick-thin pubescent figure.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/tw/Twiggy.html (143 words)

	Twiggy Lawson - The Official Site
		Lesley Hornby was born in Neasden, north London, on September 19th, 1949.
		Justin and Lesley began to see one another, though her parents didn't approve as he was ten years older than her.
		Justin was sure Lesley had the looks to be a model and took her to see Leonard's a friend of his who was a very famous haidresser in competition with Vidal Sassoon.
	www.twiggylawson.co.uk /limitededitiona.html (890 words)

	Hornby Family Crest
		It is derived from the family living in one of the places called Hornby in Lancashire, Westmorland (now part of Cumbria), or the North Riding of Yorkshire.
		The surname Hornby belongs to the large category of Anglo-Saxon habitation names, which are derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads.
		In the Hornby coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/hornby-family-crest.htm (603 words)

	A "Twiggy" Image
		From the gutters to glitter Lesley Hornby emerged as Twiggy.
		The Hornby family was extremely close and Twiggy's father instilled in his three daughters the desire and value to work hard.
		Lesley Lawson had to prove herself after her role as Twiggy as “no dumb blonde” (Twiggy in Black and White cover).
	www.gwu.edu /~english/kaleidoscope/Essaypages2003/Essay15.htm (3669 words)

	Lesley Hornby ('Twiggy') (1949-), Model and actress
		Launched by a famous little-boy haircut, shaped by Leonard and coloured by Daniel Galvin, Twiggy was the world's first supermodel.
		As both 'Woman of the Year' and The 'Face of 1966', Twiggy (born Lesley Hornby) was the embodiment of the 60s look.
		Lesley Hornby ('Twiggy'); Helen ('Nell') Hornby (née Reeman)
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp14270 (200 words)

	Faces in Fashion in Brent
		Find out who's who and what's what in the new BB house...
		Lesley Hornby aka Twiggy was born September 19, 1949 in Neasden.
		She was named "The Face of '66" by the Daily Express.
	www.mybrent.co.uk /brent/celebs-list-fashion.htm (65 words)

	AskMen.com - Twiggy pics
		Leslie Hornby was born on September 19, 1949, in Neasden, a working-class suburb of London.
		The youngest of three girls, each born seven years apart, Lesley became interested in fashion and learned to sew at an early age so that she could make herself clothes that would keep her on the cutting edge of fashion trends.
		Twiggy and Justin were engaged in '68, but the relationship ended around the time she decided to forget about modeling and set her sights on acting instead.
	www.askmen.com /women/models_150/178c_twiggy_lawson.html (1079 words)

	Senior Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Never was there a more unlikely icon than 16-year-old Lesley “Twiggy” Hornby.
		Hornby gets her hair cut at a London salon and the owner displays photos of her on the wall.
		A writer for the Daily Express sees the photos, and is inspired to write a smashing article proclaiming her "The Face of ’66." So the Twiggy phenomenon begins.
	www.seniorlifeusa.com /whereRthey.htm (2153 words)

	Michael Whitney, 52, Is Dead; Actor Married Twiggy in '77 - New York Times
		Whitney and Carly, his 4-year-old daughter with Twiggy, were in an East Side restaurant about 6:30 P.M. when he collapsed and was taken to the emergency room at Bellevue Hospital where doctors tried in vain to revive him.
		Twiggy, the former English model whose real name is Lesley Hornby, and Mr.
		Whitney, an American actor, met when they co-starred in the movie ''W.'' They were married in 1977 in England.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E2DC1E39F931A35751C1A965948260 (204 words)

	BBC - Cult - I Love Twiggy in False Eyelashes
		Woman's Mirror magazine had been on the look-out for models who were young and very thin.
		They found her in Lesley Hornby who was only six and a half stone and a size 6.
		Designer John Bates described her, rather coldly as 'Narrow body, perfect square shoulders, long legs, small bust'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cult/ilove/years/1965/fashion2.shtml (240 words)

	Heroine Worship:Twiggy, A Stick Figure
		Twiggy landed at Kennedy airport in March 1967, in the spring of the Summer of Love; she got famous so fast that when she was first asked for an interview, she didn't know what an interview was.
		A 17-year-old high-school dropout, she was born Lesley Hornby, but her boyfriend, Nigel Davies, created her look and thought up names for both of them: Twiggy for her and Justin de Villeneuve for him.
		Twiggy became an instant icon, a symbol for a new kind of woman with a new kind of streamlined, androgynous sex appeal.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/magazine4/articles/twiggy.html (777 words)

	History Detectives Kids . Codebreaker \| PBS Kids
		In 1964, she wore this famous hat with sophisticated Chanel suits on multiple occasions.
		Born Lesley Hornby in Neasden, a suburb of London, she was nicknamed Twiggy because of her skinny boyish body.
		By the time she was 16, Twiggy became the world's first supermodel.
	pbskids.org /historydetectives/breaker/games_60s8.html (122 words)

	Harper's Bazaar - The Right Bag and Shoe
		Young tourists flooded into London, convinced that all that was original and trendy (the new buzzword) could be found there, and only there.
		But it was the choice of Lesley Hornby as face of the year by the Daily Express in 1966 that finally sealed London's supremacy as the world's hottest fashion capital.
		Twiggy, as she was nicknamed, weighed only 91 pounds, which prompted the comment that she looked like two arms and two legs in search of a body.
	www.harpersbazaar.com /etoc/articles/2006/040106_3.html (837 words)

	Author Comments
		The challenge shifted from just research and analysis to combining descriptions and anecdotes with adequate support and evidence.
		At the Mount Vernon Writing Conference, I stood before my peers from the Women's Leadership Program and displayed for them a collection of photographs of Lesley “Twiggy” Hornby.
		I watched as their jaws dropped just as mine had done when I first saw the 91-pound model.
	www.gwu.edu /~english/kaleidoscope/AuthorComments2003/author15.htm (340 words)

	Supermodel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 60s were known as the "Swinging London".
		The top supermodels were Lesley Hornby aka Twiggy, Peggy Moffitt, Naomi Sims, Donyale Luna, Colleen Corby, Molly Corby, Jean Shrimpton, Dayle Haddon, Veruschka, Agneta Freiberg, Linda Morand, Cybill Shephard, Terry Reno, Wilhelmina, Angela Howard, Penelope Tree, Bethann Hardison, Lauren Hutton, and Celia Hammond.
		The most iconic of this group was Twiggy, whose look and style became "The Face of '66", according to the Daily Express.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Supermodels (1561 words)

	Sixties City - Bringing on back the good times
		Of course, to display the clothes to their best effect, fashion models were required and the big names in fashion modelling were Jean 'The Shrimp' Shrimpton and Lesley 'Twiggy' Hornby, known as The Face and The Image of the Sixties respectively.
		Woman's Mirror magazine had been searching for models who were young and exceptionally thin, and found their ideal match in Lesley Hornby.
		Born in London's East End and a genuine 'Cockney', Justin was evacuated to a Herefordshire manor house during World War 2 where he was a guest of writer J.B.Priestley.
	www.sixtiescity.com /Fashion/Fashion.shtm (3986 words)

	edr: newswire articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Rausch said that the idea of an "ideal" or thinner body got started in the 1960s with the model Twiggy.
		Twiggy, or Lesley Hornby, was a model who lived in a small suburb of London.
		Rausch said Twiggy started the idea that all women needed to be thin to be beautiful.
	www.eatingdisorderresources.com /articles/uwire102102.htm (2717 words)

	Swinging style, mod makeup
		Box-cut dresses, microscopic mini-skirts and psychedelic synthetics take many of us 20-somethings to a time we don't even remember but can never forget.
		Influenced by The Beatles and Lesley "Twiggy" Hornby, designers are experiencing complete mod-ness, with an eclectic twist of '60s fashion.
		Thanks to André Courrèges, who is responsible for designing dresses with the cutout holes on the side, hemlines rose from just above the knee to a startling 6 inches above knee between 1963 and 1965.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2005/09/09-08-05tdc/09-08-05darts-07.asp (542 words)

	MANICS.NL
		Twiggy Lawson, born Lesley Hornby in Neasden, UK, first became internationally known in the late 60's as one of the world's leading fashion models.
		Her boyfriend encouraged her to pursue the modelling carreer when she was only 16, despite of her unconventional looks - she was 5'6" and weighed 90 pounds - and she got immediate fame throughout the world.
		hornby now owns a cosmetics line, 'Twiggy Cosmetics', and plans on opening her own fashion brand, 'Twiggy Retro'.
	www.manics.nl /html/personsfj.htm (7617 words)

	America’s Skinniest Model Joins “America’s Top Model“ Feature Story
		Who would leave the serious judging on “America’s Top Model” to join the loonies on VH1’s “The Surreal Life?” Janice Dickinson, one of the current judges alongside supermodel Tyra Banks is handing down the gavel to the model that made it popular to look deathly starved in the 1960s.
		Twiggy, whose real name is Lesley Hornby, will join Banks and Co. next season to help make or break yet another aspiring model’s career.
		If anyone has the authority to do so, it is the four-time Vogue cover girl, who paved the way for waif models such as Kate Moss.
	thecelebritycafe.com /cgi-bin/nc?features/3231.html (180 words)

	Helen ('Nell') Hornby (née Reeman), Mother of Lesley Hornby ('Twiggy')
		Helen ('Nell') Hornby (née Reeman), Mother of Lesley Hornby ('Twiggy')
		The online database contains information on 88,710 works, 49,933 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
		National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp65152 (79 words)

	Twiggy Lawson - The Official Site
		INTERNATIONAL supermodel, actress, singer, wife and mother - Lesley Hornby has crammed a lot into the first 54 years of her life.
		You will probably know her by her other name - Twiggy.
		Born Lesley Hornby in north London, she was `discovered' by Daily Express reporter Deidre McSharry after a photo shoot and the entranced hack wrote a huge article under the banner headline `The Face of 66'.
	www.twiggylawson.co.uk /dorsetecho.html (691 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		But, it turns out he had another bunker - hidden under an unassuming suburban street in
		Twiggy (born September 19, 1949) is a British actress, model and singer, Born Lesley Hornby in
		A man who claimed to be the tallest man on the planet has failed to take the title - but he does have the world's biggest hands.
	neasdencontrolcentre.com /lost.html (559 words)

	UK Book Shop and Online Bookstore - Penguin Books Ltd
		The Lesley Pearse Woman of Courage Awards: Do you know an unsung heroine?
		Nominate them for the first Lesley Pearse Woman of Courage award here.
		Ones to Watch: This month the Editorial Assistant for Hamish Hamilton on The World to Come by Dara Horn.
	www.penguin.co.uk (172 words)

	Anglicans Online \| New This Week
		Christianity causes another divorce, but nothing so grand as the one that CS Lewis wrote about.
		Bones touring Ireland make even Lesley Hornby look chunky.
		Bishops hold rare public argument about foot-and-mouth; we resist the obvious use of foot-in-mouth to describe the outcome, because we can't decide who won the argument.
	morgue.anglicansonline.org /010506/new_this_week.html (1585 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Sorry, the bio doesn't have more info but I had to put some quick info down.
		Twiggy got his name by putting the serial killer Richard Ramirez (aka The night stalker) and 60's model Twiggy (Lesley Hornby)
		Twiggy knew Manson some time before joing The Band in 1994.
	members.tripod.com /Twiglet666/info.html (74 words)

	Knowhere: Reading, Berkshire, Local Heroes, Famous Residents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		I went to school in Tilehurst (Highlands) with Mike Oldfield and Sally Oldfield (they lived in Elm Park Avenue), Minette Walters (nee Jebb).
		Twiggy (Lesley Hornby) had some connection with Reading, her mum lived here I think.
		I went to primary school (St Mary's) with Kate Winslet, and her sister Anna, who I think is also mildly famous now.
	www.knowhere.co.uk /114_heroes.html (3195 words)

	Vintage Fashion Guild Designer Label Image Resource - T
		From a 1968 Twiggy dress in sky blue crisp pique
		TWIGGY : London boutique owned by the teenager Lesley Hornby - better known as model "Twiggy." Founded in 1967 and lasting only a few years, it was one of the bright lights of the British Boutique Movement.
		Genuine Twiggy dresses are superbly made, top quality, and rare.
	www.vintagefashionguild.org /labels/rtou/t.html (692 words)

	Local News \| News for Charlotte, North Carolina \| WCNC.com \| Personal Technology
		Here's "Twiggy," back when she was the toast of the Carnaby Street 'Mod' fashion scene:
		Twiggy, real name Lesley Hornby (not a good start for a supermodel), became the "Face of ’66" aged 16, when she first appeared in the Daily Express.
		She was ahead of her time in achieving international fame beyond the fashion merry-go-round, and, at 55, with unglittering forays into acting behind her, is married to Leigh Lawson and again has become a role model for her generation as the face of the charity Age Concern.
	www.wcnc.com /sharedcontent/ptech/weblog2/052305ccdrptechweblog.2a69bf49c.html (1188 words)

	Jigsaw Group Limited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		For an informal pack or an informal chat please call:
		Jill or Lesley (Personnel Department) on (0181) 343 8008
		Contact: Lesley Hornby (Personnel Manager) or Jill Symes (Personnel Administrator)
	www.aft.co.uk /sponsors/jigsaw.htm (219 words)

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