Cathy Mc Gowan - "Queen of The Mods"

"Queen of The Mods"

McGowan seemed in tune with the times — "the girl of the day", according to Eric Burdon of the Animals — and, through her fashion sense, acquired the eponym, “Queen of the Mods”. (This term has been applied to others, such as Dusty Springfield and, in New Zealand, Dinah Lee.) Much of her appeal lay in the fact that she was the age of RSG's viewers: young women regarded her as a role model, while men were attracted by her looks. Anna Wintour, future editor of American Vogue, was, according to her biographer Jerry Oppenheimer, among teenagers whom the show introduced to fashion. Another, Lesley Hornby, who became better known as Twiggy, regarded McGowan as her heroine: "I'd sit and drool over her clothes. She was a heroine to us because she was one of us".