The World of 1960s Supermodels

Hello dolls, 🌼 and welcome to "The World of 1960s Supermodels"! Their bags were big, deep and back-breakingly heavy. Inside: twelve pairs of shoes, four hair pieces, rollers, six pairs of underwear, eight pairs of tights, pots of make-up, sticking plasters, false eyelashes, safety pins, a sewing kit, boxes of jewellery, scarves, aspirin and, usually, a good novel. They walked from one audition to another always ready to be put on the cover of a fashion magazine. Today we’re talking about Models that shaped and defined the 60s! By the late 1960s, London had become the top fashion market in Europe, known for its more organized and creative approach to modeling. This era saw the rise of models as celebrities, with names like Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy, and Penelope Tree dominating the scene and earning far more than those before them. Twiggy, in particular, became an icon at just 16, being named "The Face of '66." Before there were creative directors there was just the model and the photographer and those two usually set the mood and scene for the pictures. As one of the world's first supermodels, Jean Shrimpton spearheaded the new wave of cover girls spawned from the Swinging London movement. She was discovered by photographer David Bailey (whom she'd go on to have a higly-publicized 4-year relationship with) in 1960 and went on to cover countless fashion magazines and popularize the mini-skirt. Youth was the defining feature of '60s beauty. Models like Jean Shrimpton, Patti