The teenage model dubbed the “Face of ’66” in the British press was on her first visit to America and Melvin Sokolsky was the photographer tasked with capturing images that would add to Twiggy’s burgeoning international reputation.
For the 1967 shoot, Sokolsky, a Manhattanite renowned for his “bubble” series of models floating above Paris, decided to snap Twiggy at a variety of locations in New York.
One site on a street was thronged with pedestrians and Sokolsky grew frustrated at the interruptions when they wandered into view. He retreated to his studio and devised a plan.
Sokolsky with D’Aillencourt in 1960. The photographer’s first bubble shoot in Paris featured the model
Taking a few black and white headshots of Twiggy, he printed them and cut around the face to make masks. Returning to the streets, he handed the masks out