Word: shrimpton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nearly three years ago, the leggy, blue-eyed model Cheryl Tiegs achieved an unbelievable victory. Her knee-weakening blondness had so dumbfounded the fashion industry that to be a brunette had become almost tacky. She was one of the very few models over the years (Suzy Parker, Jean Shrimpton and Lauren Hutton were among the others) whose names were known to the public, so that she was not simply the Virginia Slims girl, she was a celebrity in her own right who seemed to be endorsing the cigarettes personally. By being gorgeous, healthy and utterly unbashful about...
...hang around schoolyards hoping to lure pretty young Americans and other gaijins (foreigners) into the model industry; the proper International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo has had to issue a stern advisory to parents that it disapproves of this practice. In England, however, where Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton got their start, brutal taxes have persuaded most of the internationally known photographers to emigrate, and the business no longer flourishes...