grace: Sister Act

Jean & Chrissie Shrimpton

Jean is the elder sistet, born November 7, 1942 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. At the age of 17, she graduated from Lucie Clayton's modelling school in 1960. Nicknamed 'The Shrimp', she was an icon of Swinging Sixties London. Photographer David Bailey, was also her boyfriend. Jean almost always posed as Bailey's model.The fashion trendsetter was also a heartbreaker to many glamorous men she knew during her time as a world famous cover girl (including a stint as the face of Yardley of London). She was once engaged to 60s photographer David Bailey, on whom the David Hemmings character in the movie Blowup was based. They met on a shoot for a Cornflakes advertisement. His friend told him she was too posh for him, but Bailey was undeterred and the two subsequently had a relationship for four years. Her other celebrated romance was with actor Terence Stamp. As one of the most beautiful couples among the trendy denizens of Carnaby Street, and other hang-outs of Mod London, the two seemed a perfect couple to outsiders, but Shrimpton dumped him, citing the actor's narcissism. Chrissie was the younger sister of the reigning monarch of modes, and she is a text-book example of the younger-sister-to-a-monarch syndrome. Not serene and gracious, but pert and provocative, and she crackles into and out of the limelight with the unpredictable sparkle of a jumping jack. She is not famous for her modeling career but, for her tumultous relationship with Mick Jagger.