Musical about ‘first working-class model’ Twiggy to open in London

Writer and director Ben Elton tells story of woman who was ‘most famous teenager in the world’ in the 1960s

She was a teenager from Neasden when a photograph of her newly cropped hair catapulted her into a world of glamour and celebrity. “It happened almost overnight. One day I was an ordinary schoolgirl, and the next I was ‘the face of 1966’. It was madness but wonderful,” said Twiggy, the former model, actor and fashion designer.

Now her story is being made into a musical written and directed by the author, playwright and satirist Ben Elton and starring Elena Skye as Twiggy.