Androgyny is finally starting to develop a general identity. A collective outlook, like how gay men can look to Neil Patrick Harris for a out-and-proud attitude and lesbians can look to Ellen DeGeneres for a so-what-I'm-happy attitude. We don't have that yet, but we Andy Jeans want one. We're looking for heroes to emulate, and a general attitude to use as their own.That's partly why I'm doing this Andy Jean Heroes series: To point out people whose cultural contributions are helping to create the modern Andy Jean attitude. One of those people was Twiggy , the legendary model of the 1960s. She was 31-23-32, had eyelashes out to there (fake, by the way), and a shortly-cropped haircut that every little boy dreams of...





"Yeah, I got more femme as I got older. Bite me."

Twiggy kept her irreverent attitude throughout her career, which is why she makes the list of Andy Jean Heroes. She just did what she wanted, whether it was singing, writing books or having a cameo in The Blues Brothers . So why does Twiggy make the list of Andy Jean heroes? My favorite antic of hers was during a 1968 show, when she told a French waiter that she'd prefer he bring her a Coca-Cola to drink instead of red wine. At the time of her retirement from the fashion industry (after only four years!), she remarked , "You can't be a clothes hanger for your entire life."Perhaps that's going to be the quintessential attitude of androgyny: the bugger-off-I-do-What-I-Want attitude. Twiggy has certainly promoted that attitude throughout her life: She eventually went back to modeling (in her golden years!), recorded an album with Bryan Adams, and acted ( and sang! ) on The Muppet Show . Not to mention the fact that she opened the way for models to play with gender, a trend that has continued into today with models like Agyness Deyn and Miss J . Twiggy's proved to be a role model of defiance and variance, with plenty of bugger-off to go around. Sounds like a perfect Andy Jean to me.