Justin de Villeneuve recalls a starry party in LA with Twiggy, 1967 We arrived in Los Angeles from New York in January 1967 on a private plane. Twigs was only 16 and this trip to America put her on the international map. Unless you break America you are really not a star, whether it be in rock'n"roll, fashion or anything - and Twigs certainly broke America. People were fawning over us. This picture was taken at a garden party that Swifty Lazar, the film and literary agent, gave in her honour at his home. Sonny and Cher - with us in the picture - hosted the party. They were hugely popular at the time too, having had a hit a couple of years earlier with I've Got You Babe. There were lots of stars at the party, including Tony Curtis, Steve McQueen and Gregory Peck. I remember I sat next to the actress Eva Marie Saint, and the conversation was mostly film talk. There were about 50 people in total, and the tables were laid out with little British flags, and they served fish and chips. In this picture I think Twiggy is asking Cher whether it looked like she had been biting her nails. When Twiggy was a little anxious and nobody was looking she was always biting them. I remember that suit I am wearing very well. I felt slightly Edwardian in that, with the high waist and high collar, and very different to how the Californians were dressed. They were all very casual yet flamboyant, which I have always thought looked a bit naff. Twiggy was a Saturday girl at a hair salon in Queensgate in London when I first met her in 1965. My brother was a hairdresser there and he told me about a girl working with him who had a great look and wanted to be a model. I was a Jack the lad and knew lots of people in London, so he asked me if I would meet her and introduce her to the right people. She was my girlfriend from the beginning, which was a little bit naughty because she was 15 and I was 25. I only became Twigs" manager because her father insisted I look after her career. He also insisted we form a company - the directors were Twigs" mum and dad, her brother and me. When Twiggy first started as a model I called her Princess - I even had composite cards made with 'Princess" on them. It was my brother who called her Twigs and Twiggy first. Then one day I dropped her off at a studio to be photographed by Barry Lategan, and as I was leaving to say goodbye, Barry turned to me and said, 'What did you just call her? I told him, 'Twigs, but her name is Princess. He said her name should be Twiggy, so we kept it and that's how she took off. Faces of the Sixties," an exhibition of photographs by Justin de Villeneuve, is at Proud Chelsea, London, until July 8 (proud.co.uk)