Topic: twiggy

Agyness Deyn Channels Twiggy Like Crazy In InStyle UK

Agyness Deyn Channels Twiggy Like Crazy In InStyle UK
Agyness Deyn In In Style UK
Agyness Deyn In In Style UK
Agyness Deyn In In Style UK
Agyness Deyn In In Style UK
Agyness Deyn In In Style UK

Following her “comeback story” in Interview, it seems like Agyness Deyn is quickly re-saturating the media market, and I’m not mad at it. Why do I like her? Well, she’s super cute, she’s got personality (or at least she appears to; I don’t actually know her), she knows her way around a New Wave song, and she hasn’t said anything too asinine to the press. Good for her! In the March issue of InStyle UK, Aggy plays up her British-ness with various mod get-ups that are clearly meant to reference her English supermodel foremother Twiggy. You should probably listen to some Brit pop while you look at these photos. More »

Haute Doppelgangers: Abbey Lee Kershaw Channels Twiggy In i-D

Haute Doppelgangers: Abbey Lee Kershaw Channels Twiggy In i-D
Abbey Lee as Twiggy For i-D
Abbey Lee as Twiggy For i-D
Abbey Lee as Twiggy For i-D
Abbey Lee as Twiggy For i-D
Abbey Lee as Twiggy For i-D

Everybody loves it when models dress in costume, whether it’s as industry titans like Karl Lagerfeld, editors, pop stars, politicians or even just other models. In the latest editorial to land online from i-D‘s fall 2011 issue, Australian Abbey Lee Kershaw dons some seriously mod looks by Prada, YSL and more in tribute to the skinny model OG: England’s pixie of one thousand eye lashes, Twiggy. More »

Gallery: 10 Models Who Changed Their Names

Gallery: 10 Models Who Changed Their Names
Dovima
Agyness Deyn
Elle Macpherson
Kasia Struss
Anna Nicole Smith

This week, Belarussian blonde Tanya Dziahileva moved agencies to Marilyn in Paris and her new show card reads “Dyagileva.” Not such a change (and still as difficult for us native English speakers to say) but it got us thinking: so many models come from far-off places where surnames have many consonants… while other models just had plain Jane names that needed some punching up. Here’s a list of ladies who changed their names. More »

Is It Ever Okay To Turn Teenagers Into Supermodels?

Is It Ever Okay To Turn Teenagers Into Supermodels?

On Friday, Jessica Pauline Ogilvie filed a brief on the sometimes disturbingly hyper-sexual–or at least misleadingly sexually sophisticated–representation of teenage girls in the fashion world. She chose a photo of high schooler Lindsey Wixson pulling down a pair of Wayfarers in standard Lolita-allusion. She could have just as easily linked to this video of Wixson in a revealing cut-out Versace gown, while Donatella herself looks on and coos over Wixson’s “sexy” and “gorgeous” look. More »

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