"Dame Lesley Lawson, better known as Twiggy, vividly remembers the premiere of Twiggy, a cinematic self-portrait, at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival. What stands out most in the English model, actress, and singer's recollection is not the red carpet beforehand nor the applause afterward, but the experience of watching her life unfold on a screen so large it felt almost intrusive."
"Seeing decades collapse into images she hadn't revisited in years-particularly old footage of her late parents and her daughter, Carly, as a toddler-she couldn't hold back the tears. It reminded her of flipping through family photo albums, only magnified both emotionally and literally. "And then you see it all 10 feet high on the screen," says Twiggy. "It's doubly emotional.""
A cinematic self-portrait debuted at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival and screened stateside at San Francisco's Mostly British Film Festival. The documentary traces Lesley Hornby's rise from working-class North London to international influence in fashion and popular culture. Directed by Sadie Frost and featuring longtime friends and collaborators Paul McCartney, Dustin Hoffman, and Joanna Lumley, the film emphasizes reflection over nostalgia or canonization. Archival footage of family and childhood moments prompts a powerful emotional reckoning as decades collapse into images. Originating from a pandemic-era podcast, the project highlights vulnerability, reinvention, and the artist's effort to reclaim her own story.
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