1960's fashion icon Twiggy will be a judge next season of America’s Next Top Model. Twiggy joins the show as Janice Dickinson leaves for a stint on "The Surreal Life" on VH1.

Twiggy was the most famous model in the world during the '60s. In Mary Quant mini skirts and patent-leather boots, Twiggy symbolized "swingin' London" and fab Carnaby Street fashions. Some people said that her eyelashes are the fattest part of her ninety-pound body.

The first teenager to become a supermodel, Twiggy was perhaps the first mass-merchandised model: At the height of her fame there were dolls, "Trimfit" hosiery, cosmetics and lunchboxes made with her image on the packages. So popular was Twiggy, she made records and wrote a book (Twiggy: How I Probably Just Came Along on a White Rabbit at the Right Time and Met the Smile on the Face of the Tiger).

Flashing with brightly colored eye-enlarging make-up (the secret: three pairs of false eyelashes above the eyes, penciled-in eyelashes below), and crowned by a distinctively short boyish haircut (it took eight hours to perfect the first time it was cut), 31-22-32 measurements and barely ninety pounds on her 5' 6" frame, Twiggy in a lime-green mini and green tights represented a bold departure from the softer, rounder shapes of '50s and early-'60s models dressed in sophisticated Chanel suits. "It's not what you'd call a figure, is it?" she once said of her physique.

Then, all of nineteen, she retired at the end of the decade to devote herself to her budding acting career.

Source: SwinginChicks.com, agencies. 

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