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PHOTO: Lena Dunham Channels Twiggy for ‘Entertainment Weekly’

12/05/2012 at 03:00 PM ET

Lena Dunham as Twiggy
Courtesy Entertainment Weekly

Lena Dunham was one of this year’s breakout female stars, but for her Entertainment Weekly photo shoot, she paid homage to another female icon: Twiggy.

The Girls actress channels the ’60s star for the magazine’s Entertainers of the Year spread in a floral-print Comme des Garçons dress and dead-on Twiggy-esque hair and makeup consisting of a mini-bouffant and cat-eye liner.

And it turns out that Dunham was obsessed with her final transformation. “She loved it, she absolutely loved it,” Dunham’s hairstylist Rheanne White tells EW.com. “She was taking pictures of herself and she kept [on] all the makeup to go out that night.”

Brigitte Reiss-Andersen, who was responsible for Dunham’s retro makeup, explains that during Twiggy’s time period, imperfections were actually encouraged. “In the ‘60s, they weren’t afraid to accentuate what we might now consider a problem, to exaggerate droopy eyes, for example,” the makeup artist says. “They would go for it and make them droopier. I gave Lena a droopy shape and that’s what gives the look drama.”

Click over to EW.com for all the details on Dunham’s beauty look, and pick up the current issue of Entertainment Weekly, on newsstands now, to read Dunham’s story. Tell us: Does the actress look good as Twiggy?

–Jennifer Cress

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Rai on

She is way too heavy to be Twiggy. Doesn’t resemble anything but a Liberal to me! :)

Guest on

I love Lena!!! I find her refreshing. I think this was mocking theTwiggy ideal more than a comparison of the two!

Stephanie on

She’s so not twiggy. And her show is so bad, I can’t believe they call her a breakout star.

Sarah on

She doesn’t look like anything but a spoiled, over-exposed bore. NEXT.

sam on

Try as she may, she looks more like Adele…

Newbie on

Such a sad “Girl”

Getwhatyougive on

Sheesh all these hateful comments. It’s really easy to anonymously bash people. She looks great.

Kevin on

I do not understand the appeal of this woman. I’m happy for her success, because clearly she loves the industry, but she’s without discernible talent for me. She looks like she’s channeling Frenchie in Grease, not Twiggy! Zero sex appeal.

Lisa on

chubby actress..nothing like the great twiggy

stefanie on

I see kind of a cross between Ricki Lake and Barbara Streisand….

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