Twiggy, 76, Stuns in Timeless Black Suit at Burberry’s London Fashion Week Show

Twig­gy, 76, Shines at Burberry’s Lon­don Fash­ion Week Show While Reflect­ing on Her Time­less Lega­cy

On Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 22, leg­endary mod­el Twig­gy once again proved why she remains one of fashion’s most endur­ing icons. At 76, she stepped out at Burberry’s Spring 2026 show dur­ing Lon­don Fash­ion Week, cap­ti­vat­ing the crowd with her sig­na­ture youth­ful charm and time­less ele­gance.

Dressed in a per­fect­ly tai­lored black suit, paired with a crisp white col­lared shirt, slim black tie, pol­ished loafers, and a chic pair of sun­glass­es, Twig­gy exud­ed effort­less sophis­ti­ca­tion. Her trade­mark blonde hair, styled shoul­der-length with soft bangs fram­ing her face, offered a sub­tle nod to her sig­na­ture look of the 1960s while embrac­ing a mod­ern twist.

The run­way event, held in the pic­turesque Kens­ing­ton Palace Gar­dens, drew an impres­sive guest list of celebri­ties from both the fash­ion and music worlds. Among the star-stud­ded atten­dees were Lila Moss, Iris Law, and the ever-glam­orous Nao­mi Camp­bell, as well as music icons includ­ing Elton John, Skep­ta, Cen­tral Cee, and Gene Gal­lagher.

Burberry’s chief cre­ative offi­cer, Daniel Lee, spoke about the inspi­ra­tion behind the col­lec­tion, describ­ing it as a cel­e­bra­tion of “fashion’s love affair with music.” He explained that the designs drew influ­ence from clas­sic British sum­mer fes­ti­vals, the bal­let-inspired stage show Quadrophe­nia: A Mod Bal­let, and the upcom­ing Bea­t­les biopics. “Musi­cians have always had incred­i­ble style,” Lee said. “And togeth­er with fash­ion, they form a real­ly strong cul­ture.”

Twig­gy her­self remains deeply woven into that cul­ture. Crowned one of the very first inter­na­tion­al super­mod­els in the 1960s, she became instant­ly rec­og­niz­able for her bold eye­lash­es, gamine frame, and dis­tinc­tive pix­ie cut that helped define an era. Even in recent years, she has con­tin­ued to inspire new gen­er­a­tions: in 2022, she was unveiled as Char­lotte Tilbury’s newest celebri­ty ambas­sador. In that role, she joined forces with Kate Moss and Jour­dan Dunn to star in an ad cam­paign for Tilbury’s expan­sion of her best-sell­ing Pil­low Talk col­lec­tion.

“I am thrilled to be part of the Pil­low Talk cam­paign,” Twig­gy said at the time. “Char­lotte is a friend, and I admire her achieve­ments very much. It was such fun to work togeth­er — we laughed a lot!” She fond­ly recalled her ear­li­est mem­o­ry of Tilbury’s brand: walk­ing past a beau­ti­ful­ly designed counter in a Lon­don depart­ment store and being struck by the ele­gance and qual­i­ty of the prod­ucts.

But per­haps one of the most sur­pris­ing parts of Twiggy’s sto­ry is that her icon­ic look—specifically her short pix­ie cut—was some­thing she nev­er actu­al­ly want­ed. Dur­ing a 2020 appear­ance on Jessie Ware’s Table Man­ners pod­cast, Twig­gy con­fessed that, at age 17, she went into a Lon­don salon sim­ply to have her hair sham­pooed and set. There, famed styl­ist Leonard Lewis (bet­ter known as Leonard of May­fair) per­suad­ed her to let him try a trendy new hair­cut.

“I’d been grow­ing my hair,” Twig­gy remem­bered. “For a moment I thought, ‘I don’t know whether I want my hair cut.’ But I was in this very posh salon in May­fair, and I was too shy to say no, so I nod­ded.” The trans­for­ma­tion took sev­en hours — cut, col­or, and then cut again — a process that left her bemused but ulti­mate­ly changed her life.

Short­ly after, pho­tog­ra­ph­er Bar­ry Late­gan cap­tured a series of strik­ing black-and-white por­traits of the new­ly trans­formed teenag­er. Those pho­tos became the launch­ing pad for her mete­oric rise, turn­ing Twig­gy — born Les­ley Horn­by — into a glob­al sen­sa­tion almost overnight.

Today, stand­ing grace­ful­ly at Burberry’s Lon­don Fash­ion Week show, Twig­gy remains not only a sym­bol of time­less beau­ty but also a reminder of how one moment, one hair­cut, and one pho­to­graph can ignite a cul­tur­al rev­o­lu­tion. Her pres­ence along­side mod­ern icons of music and fash­ion shows that even decades lat­er, her influ­ence con­tin­ues to rip­ple across gen­er­a­tions.