Twiggy: My dad said to me, 'You may be making a big mistake'

Twiggy and Sadie Frost tell Esther McCarthy about working together on a new documentary film about the iconic fashion model and the exciting era in which she emerged

Twiggy (Lesley Lawson) during a fashion shoot on the King's Road, London, in 1966. (Photo by Stan Meagher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

In the mid-1960s, a fashion-mad teenager named Lesley Hornby took part in her first photo shoot, sporting a new cropped haircut. She couldn’t have known it then, but she was about to be unveiled to the world as Twiggy, one of fashion’s most iconic models and the distinctive face of an exciting period in cultural history.

It was the kind of overnight fame that changed her life - and for the unassuming, working-class teenager, a step into the unknown.