Inspirational Images: The lady is a vamp
Posted: June 18, 2011 Filed under: 1970s, bill gibb, cosmopolitan, ika hindley, Inspirational Images, richard imrie, twiggy 3 Comments »
Photo by Richard Imrie. Cosmopolitan. Cosmo Tells All. July, 1972
Ika Hindley is the twenty-three year old temporarily red-haired model who out-acts Bernhardt or Garbo on the catwalk. Give her a dress and she gives it soul. When wearing Bill Gibb’s vamp dress at his headline-making launch collection, BBC cameramen filmed a three-minute take of Ika doing her number. “I’m hoping it will get me into films. Underneath all this pink paint there’s a frustrated actress,” says Ika who takes voice, dancing and singing lessons. All of which give her catwalk appearance extra oomph. And oomph is what Bill Gibb’s clothes have in plenty. Film star Twiggy and actress Irene Worth are favourite customers of the shy Scottish lad with the special fashion flair.
What DID she wind up doing, I wonder? Now I'm curious!
What a beautiful dress, I love the drapeyness. I wonder what happened to her, too. x
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