He was the man who put the style into the Sixties: Leonard Lewis, the world’s first celebrity hairdresser, has died at the age of 78.

Known as Leonard of Mayfair because of his five-storey salon that became the epicentre of Swinging London, he created the radical crop that launched Twiggy’s modelling career and caused a revolution in a fashion world used to hair being permed, primped and tonged.

As well as working on the films of Hollywood director Stanley Kubrick, he cut the hair of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, the Rolling Stones and stars from Faye Dunaway, Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep to Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty.

Leonard Lewis puts finishing touches to the hairstyle he created for Twiggy

‘Leonard was more than just a hairdresser,’ his close friend, the society writer Richard Compton Miller, tells me.

‘He was the first hairdressing superstar, who taught John Frieda, Daniel Galvin, Nicky Clarke and many more household names.

‘Leonard could barely read or write and yet created some of the unique styles of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties. He was so renowned he was known only by his Christian name.’

Twiggy was 16-year-old Lesley Hornby when she was introduced to Leonard in 1966 by his friend and fellow hairdresser Justin de Villeneuve, who knew he was looking for models on whom he could try out his innovative crop style.

‘Her hair was long, untidy and ratty when Justin brought her in,’ Leonard later recalled. ‘We had a long discussion on what to do with her.’

Leonard decided to cut it short, like a boy: ‘It was perfect to highlight her marvellous eyes and frame her face.’ It took eight hours, with Daniel Galvin colouring her hair.

Liza Minnelli gets her hair chopped by Leonard. Society writer Richard Compton Miller said Leonard taught John Frieda, Daniel Galvin, Nicky Clarke and many more household names

‘Looking in the mirror, I saw all these faces looking at me in a way no one had ever looked at me before,’ said Twiggy.

Leonard’s friend Barry Lategan took several photographs the next day. ‘Leonard hung one of the shots in the lobby of his salon and I went back to school,’ said Twiggy.

‘That really could have been that, but for the fact that one of Leonard’s clients was Deirdre McSharry, fashion editor on the Daily Express and a very influential lady in the fashion world.’

McSharry featured Twiggy as ‘The Face of 66’ and a star was born.

After Leonard suffered a brain tumour in 1988, his fellow crimpers helped pay for his care and he was at a nursing home in Putney, South-West London, when he died this week.

He had been married twice: first to model Ricci Wade, with whom he has a son, Dominic, and then to German heiress Petra Arzberger. ‘Leonard was a genius,’ said Nicky Clarke.

Leonard pictured with his girlfriend Petra Arzberger. Leonard started his career working with Vidal Sassoon before setting up his salon, The House of Leonard

‘His work was ahead of its time. To this day, many of London’s top stylists owe a debt of gratitude we can never fully repay.’

Leonard started his career working with Vidal Sassoon, who, like him, was from Shepherd’s Bush, before setting up his salon, The House of Leonard.

His film work included styling Kubrick’s controversial A Clockwork Orange, with the director wanting actual haircuts, rather than wigs, and ‘forerunners to the punk Mohican, with the sides of the head shaved and the middle part spiked up and brightly coloured’.

When he worked on Kubrick’s period drama Barry Lyndon, each wig was said to have had its own first-class seat on the plane from London to Dublin.

Foul-mouthed TV heir in court for drink driving

Arthur Fulford, the aristocrat who appeared in reality shows The F***ing Fulfords and Life Is Toff, is maintaining his family’s tradition for irreverence.

The 23-year-old heir to the 3,000-acre Great Fulford estate near Exeter, Devon, has appeared in court charged with driving over the alcohol limit and resisting arrest by two police constables.

Fulford was behind the wheel of his Ford Focus when he was stopped near his stately pile.

No doubt his family would be proud. His foul-mouthed dad, Francis, became the star of an unlikely reality TV hit in 2004, in which he came up with hare-brained ideas to raise cash to repair the crumbling 48-room mansion where he lived with his wife Kishanda and their four squabbling children.

Ten years later, the cameras returned to catch up with the family.

In the opening episode, Francis’s eldest son, Arthur, who was kicked out of a £30,000-a-year public school, declared: ‘If anybody turns around and tries to judge me for inheriting and being in this amazing position, then frankly, they can f*** off!’

Grumpy-faced Adrian Chiles was sacked with immediate effect as ITV’s football presenter last year halfway through his contract, but he appears to have been crying all the way to the bank. New accounts for his business, Basic Broadcasting, show that it still has £5.5 million in funds. Chiles’s pay is not disclosed, but his ITV contract was said to have been worth £1 million per year. After he defected from the BBC amid great fanfare in 2011, his ITV breakfast show with Christine Bleakley, Daybreak, was axed within a year.

She's more of a Blondie than ever!

Debbie Harry at an exhibition of transgressive movement by Paris-based artist Charlie le Mindu

Debbie Harry, who was a style icon of the punk era, certainly still knows how to make an impact, even at the age of 71.

The Blondie star — real name Angela Tremble — arrived at an exhibition in New York sporting long, platinum-blonde extensions and a two-tone jacket that resembled her hair.

As she swished the jacket about (left), it created the illusion of a very hirsute woman indeed. Talk about hair-raising.

After Jacqueline Bisset swam underwater wearing a white top in 1977 film The Deep, the producer Peter Guber admitted: ‘That T-shirt made me a rich man.’ Now 72, Bisset laments: ‘They don’t ask me to be naked on film any more, but things change.’ Speaking at the Painters’ Painters private view at the Saatchi Gallery, Bisset adds: ‘Nowadays, nudity’s done much better — a lot of love scenes are beautifully shot. I haven’t seen nudity being used gratuitously recently.’

Eddie shares his spotlight

Eddie Redmayne at The 60th Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury Race Course. He is due to collect his OBE tomorrow from the Queen

Eddie Redmayne was thrilled when he won an Oscar for his performance as Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything — but he will be even more excited about his visit to Windsor Castle tomorrow to collect his OBE from the Queen.

He will have to share top billing, though, with astronaut Tim Peake, who is due to receive the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.

What a shame that Major Tim is unable to perform a zero-gravity somersault rather than a bow for Her Majesty.

Loudmouth Jeremy Clarkson was sacked by the BBC after punching a producer who failed to provide a hot dinner. But his daughter’s dietary requirements are even more complex. Emily’s revealed she has a digestive illness that stops her consuming gluten, dairy, sugar, caffeine and alcohol. She says on her blog: ‘I’m going to enlist in a college to study nutrition.’

Rod's ex stands up for Trump

Sir Rod Stewart’s former wife Alana is boycotting the Broadway musical Hamilton because of the protest by the cast against Donald Trump.

Trump supporters had called for the production to be shunned after Vice President-elect Mike Pence was booed on arrival and then lectured after the show from the stage by actor Brandon Victor Dixon.

‘Guess I won’t be seeing Hamilton,’ says Alana, 71, who was married to Sir Rod for five years.

‘Protest is totally fine, but not when people are paying to see a show, not your politics.’

To which one of her social media fans said: ‘Two-year waiting list for tickets, don’t think they’ll care if you don’t get yours.’

Retorts Alana: ‘Actually, I was already invited, but now they can give my ticket to someone else.’

Visitors to Kirstie Allsopp’s house over the festive period should be warned they are likely to be festooned with fairy lights and baubles — as the TV crafting and location guru does not believe in Christmas decor minimalism.

Kirstie, 45, confesses to ‘tinsellitis’ and adds: ‘My philosophy is: if it’s static, it’s decorated. Stand still in my house and you will be tinselled within an inch of your life! We always have a huge Christmas tree — and we have a lot of tinsel on it.’

So keen is she that the mother of two confesses she starts buying new tree decorations in the post-Christmas sales ‘when beautiful baubles are at their cheapest’.

‘I buy presents for Christmas all year around. Then I hide them away and I forget where I’ve put them. I am endlessly finding gifts around the house I bought for friends years ago.’