In a new video for Vogue, Twiggy, among the most important models of the Swinging ’60s, tells the stories behind some of her most memorable photographs — including an unforgettable one of her with David Bowie.
Just a few months after the release of Bowie’s song “Drive-In Saturday,” which included a lyric that referred to her, Twiggy was asked to be photographed with the rock star for the cover of British Vogue. She jumped at the chance. “I went to Paris and met him, and he was just an amazing man,” Twiggy recalls in the video. “So bright, so clever, so modest. Just a really great guy, apart from being really talented.” The image was taken by photographer Justin De Villeneuve, who was also her manager.
After the shoot, the editor of British Vogue said the magazine couldn’t put a picture of a man on its cover. But Bowie saved the photo from oblivion by using it for the jacket of his 1973 album Pin Ups. “It’s had a much longer life actually,” Twiggy reflects. “Every time [the album is] reissued in a different format, out comes the cover of Pin Ups.”
