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Jean Shrimpton

Alongside Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton was one of the top fashion models of the Sixties. Born in Buckinghamshire in 1942, 'The Shrimp', as she was nicknamed, was a fashion frontrunner and trendsetter. In 1965, she caused a style sensation when she pitched up to the Victoria Derby race during Melbourne Cup week in a shift dress by Colin Rolfe with a thigh-high hemline (a predecessor to the miniskirt, which became a worldwide craze), shocking the then-conservative Australians. A leading covergirl and fashion face (she promoted brands like Revlon and Yardley of London), Shrimpton also hung out with the It-crowd, and was once engaged to prominent Sixties photographer, David Bailey, on whom the cult movie Blowup was based, but the pair split after four years. Her other big romance was with Sixties man-of-the-moment Terence Stamp, who also dated Julie Christie. The pair frequented the fashionable haunts of Carnaby Street and mod London and were a celebrated cool couple of the Swinging Sixties. Jean now runs a hotel in Cornwall with her photographer husband, Michael Cox.
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