[3][5][6][7] She appeared on numerous magazine covers including Vogue,[8][9] Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Elle, Ladies' Home Journal, Newsweek, and Time.
Shrimpton was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and educated at St Bernard's Convent School, Slough.
[12] In 1960, aged 17, she began modelling, appearing on the covers of magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and Vogue.
They met in 1960 at a photo shoot that Shrimpton, who was then an unknown model,[14] was working on with photographer Brian Duffy for a Kellogg's corn flakes advertisement.
[7] She caused a sensation in Melbourne when she arrived for the Victoria Derby wearing a white shift dress made by Colin Rolfe which ended 5 in (13 cm) above her knees.
[3][7][35][47] In her article "The Man in the Bill Blass Suit", Nora Ephron wrote that when Shrimpton posed for a Revlon advertisement in an antique white Chantilly lace dress by Blass, minutes after the lipstick placard was displayed at the drugstores, Revlon received calls from women demanding to know where they could buy the dress.
[1][14] Bailey was still married to his first wife Rosemary Bramble when the affair began, but left her after nine months and later divorced her to be with Shrimpton.
[50] In 1979, she married photographer Michael Cox[51] at the register office in Penzance, Cornwall, when she was four months pregnant with their son Thaddeus, who was born that same year.