"The Women We Wanted to Look Like" ~ Models

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In her book The Women We Wanted to Look Like (St. Martin's Press: 1977), Brigid Keenan examined the women who influenced fashion in the 20th Century:
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Lauren Hutton

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Jean Shrimpton

Here are some interesting photos and insights about famous models:

Enid Munnick - Ingrid Boulting's Mother
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Photographer: John French

Veruschka
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Veruschka, a German countess, came to fame in the sixties. In fashion pictures she was usually disguised as some sort of exotic flower or animal.

Celia Hammond & Jean Shrimpton
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1960
Photograph: Associated News Group
Celia Hammond and Jean Shrimpton went to the same modelling school, Lucie Clayton's. This picture of the two girls, both as yet unknown, was taken by a newspaper photographer the day they left.

Twiggy
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Twiggy beside an early shop window dummy modelled on her. One of the most accurate reflections of our ever-changing ideals of beauty is the shop window dummy.

Nicole de la Marge
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Photographer: Peter Knapp for The Sunday Times
Nicole de la Marge was quite plain without make-up, but given half an hour or so with her bag of cosmetics she could transform her funny little face and mousy hair into things of astonishing beauty. She knew all the tricks of her trade and was constantly changing, adapting, and bringing herself in line with the current fashions.

Grace Coddington
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1965
Photographer: Terence Donovan
Grace Coddington became a model in 1959 and through the hectic years that followed proved to be astonishingly adaptable. In 1965 with a Vidal Sassoon haircut and Mary Quant dress.

Ten years later and unrecognizable...

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1975
Photographer: Barry Lategan

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