That fame changes you at the cellular level is something we’ve come to accept. You can’t be the same person post-notoriety as you were pre.

Even if you try, the world won’t let you.

So it’s a little heartening to observe how little global fame at the age of 16 sees to have impacted Lesley Hornby, aka 60s fashion icon Twiggy. 

Directed by Sadie Frost (who knows a bit about the merry-go-round of celebrity), Twiggy is an unashamedly admiring portrait of the working class girl from Neasden in North London who, thanks to her unique look and mould-breaking charm, took the modelling world by storm in the mid-sixties and became, arguably, the first genuinely “super” model.

It’s also a reminder that was was not just a pretty face. Leveraging her fame and her natural openness, Twiggy become, a double Golden Globe-winning actor (starring in Ken Russell’s film The Boy Friend) and a Tony-nominated stage performer for her Broadway debut in George and Ira Gershwin’s musical My One and Only. She starred as Eliza Doolittle in 1981, opposite Robert Powell’s Henry Higgins in a British TV production of Pygmalion. She played opposite Robin Williams in...