Fashion model Twiggy - real name Dame Lesley Lawson - was one of the biggest names of the Swinging Sixties, but few people know how she got her famous nickname. Famed for her large, dark eyes ...

Frost is on a '60s streak, following up her documentary on designer Mary Quant with a film called "Twiggy" about the ...

Twiggy "didn't look like any of the other models" in her heyday. The 75-year-old fashion icon, whose real name is Dame Lesley Lawson, is one of the most recognizable names from the 1960s but ...

What fascinates Frost about Twiggy is how she is “always challenging herself but never selling out or compromising herself or her family”. Almost 60 years after her heyday, Twiggy is still “strong, ...

Fans of the brand included everyone who was anyone at the time in the 1960s with Twiggy, the Rolling Stones ... when Hulanicki created a pink gingham dress that cost 25 shillings.

Over the years, many people have tried to make a film about the life of Twiggy – the iconic cultural figure who found herself catapulted to fame as a teenage model during the swinging '60s.

The 'Be My Baby' vocalist, now 75, is a British icon who was a leading teenage model during London's swinging '60s. But how did Dame Lesley Lawson, her real name, become known as Twiggy?

Twiggy turned the modelling world upside down with her androgynous style, big round eyes, bold eyelashes, and pixie haircut, becoming a defining figure and fashion icon of the swinging 60s.