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was another icon and one of the world's first supermodels. She was the world's highest paid and most photographed model during this time. Shrimpton was called "The Face of the '60s", in which she has been considered by many as "the symbol of Swinging London" and the "embodiment of the 1960s".
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article 'Great Britain: You Can Walk Across It on the Grass', the magazine pronounced London the global hub of youthful creativity, hedonism and excitement: "In a decade dominated by youth, London has burst into bloom. It swings; it is the scene", and celebrated in the name of the
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of the same period. English cultural geographer Simon Rycroft wrote that "whilst it is important to acknowledge the exclusivity and the dissenting voices, it does not lessen the importance of Swinging London as a powerful moment of image making with very real material effect."
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themes. During this period, "creative types of all kinds gravitated to the capital, from artists and writers to magazine publishers, photographers, advertisers, film-makers and product designers".
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said, with the album the Stones were chronicling the phenomenon, while Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon called it "the soundtrack of Swinging London, a gift to hip young people".
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Bailey's photographs reflected the rise of working-class artists, entertainers and entrepreneurs that characterised London during this period. Writing in his 1967 book
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for men in 1960, these young people enjoyed greater freedom and fewer responsibilities than their parents' generation, and " changes to social and sexual politics".
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denoted as its centre. It saw a flourishing in art, music and fashion, and was symbolised by the city's "pop and fashion exports", such as
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1950s and 1960s: the post-war investment boom. When the Queen came to the throne, the UK economy was still in its post-war boom period
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magazine, said that "London is the most swinging city in the world at the moment." Later that year, the American singer
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which captured London's emerging youth culture, Swinging London was underway by the mid-1960s and included music by
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Music was an essential part of the revolution, with "the London sound" being regarded as including the Beatles,
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sought to define Swinging London in a series of large photographic prints. Compiled into a set titled
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people, and was often considered as "simply a diversion" by them. The swinging scene also served as a
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cultural revolution that took place in the United Kingdom during the mid-to-late 1960s, emphasising
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adventurer suspended in time since 1902, was told, "This is London, 1966 – the swinging city."
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became an icon of 1960s popular culture, and featured in the 1969 British caper film
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emphasising the new and modern. It was a period of optimism and hedonism, and a
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Hibbert, Tom (1982). "Britain invades the world: Mid-Sixties British Music".
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location, and scenes in which the heroines were shown dressing or undressing.
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During the 1960s, London underwent a "metamorphosis from a gloomy, grimy
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MacDonald, Ian (November 2002). "The Rolling Stones: Play With Fire".
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During the Swinging Sixties, fashion and photography were featured in
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has been cited by music scholars as a reflection of Swinging London.
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Never Had It So Good: A history of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
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The phenomenon was featured in many films of the time, including
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or fashionable had been used since the early 1960s, including by
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most famous (if not the first) identification of Swinging London
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magazine on the cover of its issue of 15 April 1966. In a
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White Heat: A history of Britain in the swinging sixties
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White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
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In the episode "Beauty Is an Ugly Word" (1966) of BBC's
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and other artists from what was known in the US as the "
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Swinging City: A Cultural Geography of London 1950–1974
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of aspirational Britain in the 1960s, the period was a
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counterpart to the more overtly political and radical
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has been called "the face of 1966" and "the Queen of
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Swinging London
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Carnaby Street
West End
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miniskirt
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Jean Shrimpton
King's Road
Kensington
Carnaby Street
anti-nuclear movement
sexual liberation
the Rolling Stones
the Who
the Kinks
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