Quotes by Twiggy - Page 2

Ballet pumps are the dream shoes because they are so comfortable. They look great both with jeans and summer dresses; and you can even wear the right pair with an evening gown.
Twiggy / Model
Ballet
Comfortable
Dresses
Evening
Jeans
Shoes
Summer
Gown
Pair
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I think everyone should sing - it's so good for you, as it makes you breathe deeply, and it's good for you emotionally, too. It's a brilliant release way of lifting the spirits.
Twiggy / Model
Breathe
Brilliant
Lifting
Release
Spirit
Thinking
Way
Deeply
Emotionally
Spirits
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My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.
Twiggy / Model
Sister
Fabric
Fashion
Hated
Magazines
Skinny
Buy
Copy
Liked
Elder
Looked
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Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of minefield and help give people their lives back. As simple as that.
Twiggy / Model
People
Simple
Squares
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Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow.
Twiggy / Model
Arms
Covering
Elbows
Flash
Revealing
Sleeves
Asset
Bosom
Elbow
Offset
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Want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female. If you want to do that, that's fine. At our shows, it's like a Halloween party, which isn't a bad thing. I'd like to see more of it actually.
Twiggy / Model
Halloween
Party
Trying
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If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear - it's lovely.
Twiggy / Model
Happy
Calm
Calm Down
Curtains
Fabric
Lovely
Patterns
Days
Buy
Stay
Down
Wear
Room
Pattern
Shut
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I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts.
Twiggy / Model
Belts
Giving
Illusion
Optical Illusions
Silhouettes
Bring
Learnt
Straight
Optical
Silhouette
Waist
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Belts distract the eye from a bloated tummy, a heavy-set upper body and all manner of sins. They can be a superb way to update your wardrobe without breaking the bank, and there's no reason to stop wearing them, ever!
Twiggy / Model
Belts
Body
Eye
No Reason
Reason
Superb
Wardrobe
Way
Your Body Way
Bank
Bloated
Breaking
Distract
Body Way Your
Wearing
Manner
Sins
Update
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I can't live without my cup of tea. When I was a judge on 'America's Next Top Model,' they had to put me in a hotel where I had my own kitchen, because they can't make tea in America. I was happy then because I could make my own.
Twiggy / Model
Hotel
My Own
Tea
Judge
Cup
Model
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Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone loves getting into a bed made up with beautiful linen. I love sewing, I love fabrics, and I love sleeping.
Twiggy / Model
Bed
Made
Natural
Progression
Sewing
Sleep
Life Love Great
Everyone
Designing
Getting
Fabrics
Loves
Line
Natural Progression
Pleasures
Seemed
Sleeping
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Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. Its safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.
Twiggy / Model
Daughter
Block
Team
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Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?
Twiggy / Model
Believe
Numbers
Thinking
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Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.
Twiggy / Model
Daughter
Design
Block
Found
Harder
Obsessed
Print
Stella
Subtle
Team
Tricky
Quite
Bold
Colours
Gets
Older
Wearing
Mccartney
Safer
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I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.
Twiggy / Model
Technology
Cds
Extraordinary
New Technology
Nice
Sewing
Tangible
Love Technology Me
Love Me New
Cd
Embraced
Ipad
Ipod
Machine
Mixture
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Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'
Twiggy / Model
Funny
Getting Older
Moaning
No Point
Always Believe Me
Nothing
Quite
Find
Getting
Still
Say
Number
Look
Older
Point
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I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.
Twiggy / Model
Boys
Broadway
Modelling
Musical
People
Thinking
Always People More
Since
Boy
Friend
Directed
People Always More
Singer
Suppose
Russell
Tommy
Tune
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Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to layer outfits. I love granddad cardis for winter, worn over a vintage lace shirt, waistcoat and full skirt with slouchy boots.
Twiggy / Model
Boots
Lace
Outfits
Play
Simplicity
Vintage
Winter
Worn
Full
Lightweight
Shirt
Skirt
Vital
Ways
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We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
Twiggy / Model
Being Yourself
Children
Mean
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I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself.
Twiggy / Model
Bottom
Dolls
Eye
Eyelashes
My Own
Thinking
Myself Eyes Look
Came
Copied
Doll
False
Putting
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What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your outfit should mean business. If I go to meet somebody about an acting job, or something creative, then I'll be in my jeans. For me, overdressing is my biggest fear.
Twiggy / Model
Empowering
Jeans
Outfit
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Christianity, like most religions, works with fear. Sins can be confessed and you are 'Clean again' and can start to sin again without thinking about your old sins. We believe that people should ask themselves why they sinned. They should show some responsibility.
Twiggy / Model
Believe
Responsibility
Thinking About You
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If you've got the body and the chutzpah, a pencil skirt is so sexy on older women. Look for ones that fall just below the knee. Think 1940s, cinched-in jackets - imagine you are Lauren Bacall on a date with Humphrey Bogart and you just absolutely have to wear very high heels.
Twiggy / Model
Women
Body
Bogart
Fall
Heels
High Heels
Imagine
Jackets
Lauren
Older Women
Sexy
Absolutely
Below
Women Sexy Look
Date
High
Older
Wear
Pencil
Skirt
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Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.
Twiggy / Model
Age
Boring
Exciting
Free Spirit
Spirit
Young
Astaire
Certainly
Old
Fell
Fred
Meet
Met
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I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.
Twiggy / Model
Advice
Bits
Camouflage
Exercise
Enhance
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From as far back as I can remember, I was always insecure about my looks, whether it was my flat chest, my skinny legs, or how to cope with my body as it changed. With hindsight, I can see I was different. I was given a body that worked for photographic modelling and a photogenic face.
Twiggy / Model
Changed
Given
Hindsight
Insecure
Legs
Looks
Modelling
Skinny
Always Face Body
Chest
Cope
Flat
Photographic
Worked
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Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love.
Twiggy / Model
Chance
Design
Clothes
Ideas
My Own
Passion
Love Design Passion
Collection
Constantly
Discovered
Early
Hands-On
Head
Wear
Sew
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I think I had a fur coat that someone bought me from Portobello Market back in the 1960s, but I think as soon as you think about it, what it is you're wearing, make that connection, then you realise it's just not right. I don't lecture people about it, but it's not something I'd ever wear.
Twiggy / Model
Fur
Me People Connection
Me People Right
Bought
Coat
Connection
Lecture
Realise
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The way I looked when I started modelling - I was a skinny schoolgirl, stuffing tissues into my little 32A bra. I wasn't trying to be that thin; I was perfectly healthy, but still - that look is a total impossibility for women over the age of 20. Fashion has a lot to answer for, doesn't it?
Twiggy / Model
Age
Fashion
Healthy
Impossibility
Modelling
Skinny
Women Look Way
Women Age Look
Bra
Total
Looked
Perfectly
Schoolgirl
Stuffing
Thin
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I was always telling girls who said that they wanted to be the 'next' Kate Moss or the 'next' Gisele that it wasn't possible, because the 'next' girl wasn't going to look like anybody else; she would be somebody unique. If you look at all the great models... they all have an individual look.
Twiggy / Model
Models
Moss
Great Always Look
Anybody Else
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What happened to me in the Sixties was so major and so worldwide and so huge, there's no way I can repeat it. But in a way, I had nothing to do with it, it just took me over. It was bizarre, it was weird, and I had no control over it. I don't think anyone could have planned what happened to me.
Twiggy / Model
Bizarre
Thinking
Way
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For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.
Twiggy / Model
Mean
Nice
Years
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For me, getting older doesn't mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, it's about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesn't suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.
Twiggy / Model
Bits
Boots
Fabulous
Getting Older
Great Things
Lipstick
Outfits
Selected
Throwing
Great Me Way
Away
Getting
Enhance
Enjoying
Older
Harnessing
Instead
Learnt
Pair
Suit
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I prefer 100 per cent cotton Ts. They are kinder to lumps and bumps than figure-hugging stretchy Lycra ones and feel nicer against the skin. Extra-long-sleeved T-shirts are a lifesaver for me. I wear them either underneath a shirt with the sleeve pulled out of the cuff, or underneath gypsy tops, tunic tops and waistcoats.
Twiggy / Model
Bumps
Cotton
Gypsy
Against
Skin
Prefer
Cent
Either
Wear
Per
Nicer
Pulled
Shirt
Sleeve
Tops
Underneath
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They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It's scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them.
Twiggy / Model
Zero
Arms
Diets
Hollywood
Models
Normal
Scary
Size
Stars
Tempted
Worst
Extreme
Naturally
Banning
Chest
Copy
Gangly
Terrifying
Teenagers
Young Girls
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The 40s onwards are when we can really begin to enjoy ourselves. For many women, this is when everything comes together, and they look better than ever. The great thing about getting older is you don't have to do/wear/say anything you don't want to. It wasn't until my very late 30s that I stopped worrying about what other people thought.
Twiggy / Model
Getting Older
Late
People
Together
Worry
Begin
Women Great Look
Getting
Great Thing
Older
Worrying
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