Twiggy: "If I were to interview Woody Allen again now, I'd probably punch him."

BarcelonaNew York. 1967. JFK Airport. A swarm of photographers awaits a girl with short hair, endless eyelashes, and a slender figure who has just gotten off a plane from London. "Twiggy!" "Twiggy!" the photographers shout when they see her arrive. They all want to capture the face of the moment. A journalist asks her: "Are you beautiful?" And she, barely seventeen, answers, confused and with a face of circumstance: "I really don't." With this scene begins Twiggy (2024), a documentary by Sadie Frost that traces the life of Lesley Hornby (1949), the girl from the outskirts of London who became the icon of Swinging LondonThrough valuable archival material and the testimony of a long list of celebrities, Frost reconstructs the career of the woman who revolutionized the 1960s and who, later, reinvented herself as a fashion designer, actress (she won two Golden Globes for her first film), and was nominated for a Tony Award. In fact, her latest album will soon be released.

Almost six decades later, Twiggy herself receives the press at a hotel in Barcelona. This time there's no shouting or pushing. She's the one who dominates the situation, sitting next to Frost.

Her presence is the big draw for this year's Moritz Feed Dog, which opened last night with the screening of the documentary that bears her name. Twiggy confesses that she never planned her career. "It just happened. I was a normal girl going to school, and the following week, my face was all over the newspapers," she recalls. The only thing in between was a haircut and the photographs taken by Barry Lategan, which broke with the prevailing aesthetic canon. In fact, they made her peculiar eye makeup, inspired by that of a doll she had in her room, fashionable. "I think I was in the right place at the right time. Young people were starting to have a voice; it was a very exciting time. And I feel sorry for that because everything is very complicated for young people these days: work, housing..."

Despite being part of show business, Twiggy never indulged in excess. "I was offered drugs, but I never wanted anything to do with it," she says, while being grateful for having a family with solid roots. "I still talk to my sisters almost every day," she explains. But she did have to deal with disrespect, perhaps because she was young, perhaps because she was a woman, probably both. "After watching the documentary, I realized that, subconsciously, I created a kind of persona to protect myself from the pressure of fame," she confesses. And then, the interview Woody Allen conducted with her when she was not even twenty comes to light. "Who is your favorite philosopher?" Allen asked her. "If he interviewed me again now, I'd probably punch him," she concludes with her infectious laugh. "I remember this well because I was so sad, he made me ashamed of myself. I left that set crying. It was bad. He wanted to mock me with my question, 'I was never going to do that, I was never going to do this, I was never going to do that, I was never going to do that, I was never going to do that, I was never going to do that, I was never going to do that, I was never going to do this.' Her kindness and humility come naturally. So does that natural elegance that is so characteristic of her. 'Look, I'm wearing a jacket and trousers from my collection for Marks & Spencer. Women over sixty don't want to dress like old ladies anymore. They want to look good and at affordable prices," exclaims the woman who has been, if not the most beautiful, then the most photographed of the 20th century.