Jean Shrimpton
Jean Rosemary Shrimpton ( born November 7, 1942 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire ) is a British model. She was known especially during the Swinging Sixties under the unloved by her nickname The Shrimp and is regarded as one of the first supermodels.
Life and career
Shrimpton was born 1942 in High Wycombe and grew up in a rural area. Her three years younger sister Chrissie Shrimpton was the mid-1960s with Mick Jagger dating and also worked as a model.
At 17, she began training as a clerk at the Langham Secretarial College in London. In 1961 she said the director Cy Endfield on at a crosswalk, because he was still an actress for his film sought The Mysterious Island. After the producers of the film had they refused contrary to the recommendation of the director, Endfield suggested she visit a model course at Lucie Clayton College. Soon after, she received the first orders as a catalog model and for magazines. In a shoot for Vogue magazine she met the photographer David Bailey know. Shrimpton was soon to Bailey's muse and went with him into a relationship after it had become his first wife divorced. Later she was with actor Terence Stamp and the poet Heathcote Williams dating.
Glamour magazine she rose in June 1963 for "Model of The Year". Mid-1960s, it reached the peak of their career and has an hourly wage equivalent to 240 D - Mark the highest paid models this time. Richard Avedon photographed her for a title of Harper 's Bazaar in April 1965 in a space suit. However, their clothes upon arrival to the Australian Melbourne Cup in 1965 caused an uproar because Shrimpton appeared in one of the conditions of that time unusually short, knee- free sheath dress. In addition, they had waived the usual for ladies knee socks and gloves and a hat and wore a man's watch as an accessory. After a complaint by the Board of the Victorian Racing Club of Australia, the " shameful " called her a lift, Shrimpton fit her outfit for the race and the awards ceremony at the " local dress codes " on. However, the global headlines and photos they made internationally known and paved the way for the created by Mary Quant mini skirt.
In 1967, she appeared in the film privilege at the side of Paul Jones. In 1970, she starred in Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising.
She retired in 1972 from the previous modeling. With her then-boyfriend Malcolm Richey she moved to Cornwall, where she opened an antique shop in Marazion. In 1979 she married the photographer Michael Cox and took the name Jean Cox. Shortly after, she earned a hotel in Penzance, which is now run by Shrimptons son.
In 1990, she published her autobiography Jean Shrimpton: An Autobiography.
Filming
In the 2012 BBC television broadcast Vierteiler We'll Take Manhattan, which deals with, among other things Shrimptons relationship with photographer David Bailey, she was portrayed by the actress Karen Gillan.