Does Sixties fashion queen Twiggy think that models are too thin now?”
Sixties fashion queen Twiggy held court at the Bryant Park Hotel on Tuesday, debuting her new fashion line for HSN. The former model, who is widely credited with popularizing the waif look, talked to the Huffington Post about the current size of runway girls. “I was a very, very skinny model in the ’60s, but naturally…that’s what I looked like.” Twiggy explained. “I ate. I always said I ate, and I looked like my dad who was very skinny, so I think that’s genetic. I think most models fall into that category: if you are 17 years old and you are 5-foot-11, the chances are you’re going to be thin. But we do know that there are girls pushed to not eating and to losing weight and that is not good because you have tragedies with girls being ill or even worse.” She pointed to the recent trend on British runways of sending plus-size girls strutting. “[Such actions] have to come from the industry because if the designers push for very skinny girls, the agencies make the girls try to be too thi
Sixties fashion queen Twiggy held court at the Bryant Park Hotel on Tuesday, debuting her new fashion line for HSN. The former model, who is widely credited with popularizing the waif look, talked to the Huffington Post about the current size of runway girls. “I was a very, very skinny model in the ’60s, but naturally…that’s what I looked like.” Twiggy explained. “I ate. I always said I ate, and I looked like my dad who was very skinny, so I think that’s genetic. I think most models fall into that category: if you are 17 years old and you are 5-foot-11, the chances are you’re going to be thin. But we do know that there are girls pushed to not eating and to losing weight and that is not good because you have tragedies with girls being ill or even worse.” She pointed to the recent trend on British runways of sending plus-size girls strutting. “[Such actions] have to come from the industry because if the designers push for very skinny girls, the agencies make the girls try to be too thi
