ANOS DOURADOS

Anos Dourados, para a maioria das pessoas que viveram naquela epoca, signinifica “Anos encantados.”Nos anos dourados acontecia à literatura de Kerouac, o rock de garagem, os movimentos feministas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Os movimentos civis em favor dos negros. Surgiram os Baianos e o Tropicalismo, a alegria, a vanguarda, a Pop Rock e o Brasil inteiro se deliciava com a batida ligth e o canto nasal da Bossa Nova.

Era moda demonstrar sinais de liberdade e Mary Quant incentivava a mini saia nas garotas de corpinho esbelto e de pernas bem torneadas.Veio a magreza de Twiggy, os batons claros em bocas tropicais, o cabelo Franjão e a velocidade do avião Concorde.De celebridades como Marilyn Monroe,Presidente JK, Marlon Brando, Dean Martin,Martin Luther King entre tantos outros.

 

TWIGGY: A LIFE IN PHOTOGRAPHS

A new display at the National Portrait Gallery will celebrate Twiggy’s 60^th birthday and the publication of a new photographic biography of her life. One of the best-known and most respected models of all time Twiggy has worked with many of the world’s leading photographers and a selection of the most iconic and important of these portraits will be on show at the Gallery.

Twiggy by Barry Lategan in 1966 – the picture which made her career

Twiggy by Cecil Beaton

 

Twiggy by Richard Avedon

Launched with a famous haircut by Leonard and photographs by Barry Lategan in 1966, Twiggy was the world’s first supermodel. It was Lategan’s studies of her in the Daily Express that launched her as ‘the Face of 1966.’ For the next three years Twiggy helped define swinging London and she remains today an internationally recognised name and face. Appearing in all the leading magazines she has been photographed by Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Melvin Sokolsky, Ronald Traeger, Bert Stern and Norman Parkinson amongst others.

In 1970 Twiggy embarked on her theatrical career. She played the lead in Ken Russell’s film of Sandy Wilson’s musical The Boyfriend (1971), for which she was awarded two Golden Globes -Most Promising Newcomer and Best Actress in a Musical. She went on to star in the Broadway musical My One and Only (1983-4), for which she was nominated for a Tony award. Twiggy continues to make regular appearances in print and on television and has more recently modelled for portraits by leading contemporary photographers including Bryan Adams, John Swannell, Mary McCartney, Steven Meisel and Sølve Sundsbo. This display of over 20 photographs will encompass the Twiggy’s life in portraits, from early shots by Lategan to the present day.

Twiggy by Ronald Traeger for Vogue

To accompany the display, the National Portrait Gallery will publish a hard-back book Twiggy: A Life in Photographs in September. A range of portraits from the Gallery’s Collection will be included in the book along with insights by Twiggy and an introduction by Terence Pepper, Curator of Photographs. An illustrated chronology – including Twiggy’s private collection of photographs, snapshots, cuttings and memorabilia – will explore her extraordinary life in front of the camera. The book (RRP £20) will contain over 100 illustrations, and a current retrospective of the portraits in Twiggy’s own words.

Recent: Solve Sundsbo’s shot last year (left) and Bryan Adams‘s in 2000

TWIGGY: A LIFE IN PHOTOGRAPHS
From 19 September 2009 – 24 March 2010
Room 33A
Admission Free

For further press information and image requests please contact:

Eleanor Macnair , Press Office, National Portrait Gallery

Tel: 020 7321 6620 (not for publication)

 Email: emacnair@npg.org.uk;

To download images: www.npg.org.uk/press

BAD GIRL HAIR

Vidal Sassoon Hair Revival

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Quant: Sixties designer Mary Quant’s slick pageboy cut was a variation on Vidal Sassoon’s classic angular bob.There were other mod idols, too. Learn more about Mary Quant, a fashion designer who claimed to have invented the miniskirt. She and her husband were a driving force behind 1960′s “Swinging London.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Twiggy crop: The original supermodel was hailed as the face of 1966 when she went for a super-short boyish cut.

Twiggy really only had one look, but she took it very seriously. Although the mod fashion movement got its start in 1950′s London, it’s Twiggy who is frequently remembered as the face of mod.  Mod fashion was streamlined and bold, definitively minimalist. Look for geometric patterns, startling colors, and hemlines cut well above the knee.With her short-cropped mod hairstyle, neat side-part, and long, dark lashes, Twiggy epitomized the streamlined grace that so many mod kids exalted.

Twiggy’s fellow model Peggy Moffitt popularized the austere “five point” Vidal Sassoon haircut, the moddest mod hairstyle there ever was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forget Twiggy: American model Peggy Moffitt is one of the most iconic faces of 1960’s mod fashion. The actress-turned-model, who became muse to designer Rudy Gernreich, redefined the high fashion look of the era. Her Japanese Theater-inspired makeup and signature hairstyle came to represent the strengthening bond between pop art and fashion.Moffitt started modeling when she began dating photographer William Claxson, whom she later dated. Unconventionally beautiful, Moffitt’s symmetrical, almost cartoonish face redefined the qualities sought in fashion models, paving the way for superstar Twiggy.Moffitt and Gernreich continue to influence the fashion world, despite Gernreich’s death in 1985. Moffitt’s look remains popular in the haute fashion world, and several vintage Gernreich designs were redistributed under the Japanese label Commes des Garcons in 2003.