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| |birth_date = {{birth date|1948|6|7}} | |||
| |birth_place = ], ], UK | |||
| |occupation = {{hlist|Model |Advertising |Magazine Editor |Deli Owner |Company Director}} | |||
| |years_active = 1948–present | |||
| |website = {{url|http://www.victorianixon.com}} | |||
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| '''Victoria Nixon''' is a British author and company director. The Evening Standard wrote in 2005 that "Victoria Nixon has had success in four careers – from being a Vogue model to advertising, television production and now owning a deli."<ref>{{cite news |title=Secrets of My Success |date=May 12, 2005 |newspaper=]}}</ref> She now divides her time between rural Buckinghamshire where, according to the '']'' she is writing her autobiography, and the West London offices of AirCell Structures Ltd of which she is Managing Director.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/sex-drugs-and-sheffield-steel-sixties-model-victoria-nixon-reveals-all-1-7858797|title=Sex, Drugs and Sheffield Steel: Sixties Model Victoria Nixon Reveals All|last=Walker|first=Graham|date=18 April 2016|work=The Sheffield Star|access-date=12 May 2016|via=}}</ref> | |||
| == Early Life == | |||
| Nixon was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire and educated at Barnsley Girls' High School. Her father owned a car dealership; her mother was a college bursar. She had on elder brother. At the age of 16, she caught the eye of ], the lead singer of ], at a gig in Sheffield, and he said that she should go to London to be a model. After completing a secretarial course at the Northern Secretarial College in Leeds, she left for London. | |||
| == Career == | |||
| === Modelling === | |||
| At the age of 18, she was spotted in London's Bond Street by top fashion photographer ]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-95412244.html|title=Models Give Away Beauty Secrets; Supermodel's Beauty Secrets by Victoria Nixon|last=|first=|date=12 December 2002|work=The News Letter (Belfast)|subscription=yes|access-date=12 May 2016|via=HighBeam Research}}</ref> who stepped out of a taxi and offered her a contract launching a decade-long international modelling career as Vikki Nixon in 1966. Subsequently she appeared in French, English, Italian and American ''Vogue''<ref>Italian Vogue December 1967 Photographed by </ref>, ''Harpers Bazaar'', ''Glamour'', ''Nova'', ''19'' and ''Elle''. | |||
| She was selected as the ''Daily Mail'''s 'Face of 68', ] described her as "the grown up face of '68" and someone who would "set fire to the pages of the glossy magazines in the New Year."<ref>Daily Mail Jan 1st 1968 "The New Face of '68 who is she"</ref> | |||
| During her career she worked with many top photographers including ], ], ], , ] and ]. Her New York agent was ]. She featured in a number of high profile press advertising campaigns<ref>Sunday Times Magazines 1969 full page advert "Model Vikki Nixon's Choice Lyle & Scott"</ref> <ref>Cover March 1970 issue of ] #575</ref> <ref>Sunday Times magazine 1971 "Don't shoot – it's not fur" photographed by ]</ref> <ref>Economist & ] March and April 1969 full page adverts ""</ref> <ref>"" </ref> and was the first British model to work with a Milan model agency - . | |||
| === Television === | |||
| As a result of her modelling career she also appeared on a number of TV programmes, most notably in the 1969 live coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing where she appeared with presenter ] and journalist ] during the live studio broadcast wearing a "space-fashion outfit". She was the first "promo star" of the BBC's 'Top of the Pops'<ref>Top of the Pops & </ref> described in ] April 11th issue as an "Angelic looking Hell's Angel", and "girlfriend of promotion ace Bill Fowler."<ref>Disc and Music Echo April 11th 1970</ref> When a music act, such as Andy Williams or Kenny Rogers, was unable to appear live, producer/director would pre-film a clip of her to broadcast with the song. She was featured in a 1975 version of the hugely successful and long running TV campaign for ]. | |||
| === In Australia === | |||
| After modelling, Nixon relocated to Australia and became an advertising copywriter and was the Melbourne editor of ], an avant garde fashion and lifestyle glossy, from 1978-85. Whilst still in Australia she formed a film production company and produced 'The Price of Fame' television series for Central Television UK however the series was never broadcast but it remains "in the can". | |||
| === Deli owner and author === | |||
| In 1992, Nixon opened the One Stop Fresh ] in Fulham, South London which specialised in healthy lunchtime food.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=June 2005|title=I Used To Be...A Supermodel|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=17316493&site=ehost-live|journal=Director|volume=58|issue=11|page=16|doi=|pmid=|access-date=12 May 2016|subscription=yes|via=EBSCO}}</ref> One Stop Fresh was the first deli in the UK to use revolutionary eco-friendly packaging. Whilst running the deli her first book 'Supermodels' Beauty Secrets<ref>Supermodels' Beauty Secrets 2002 ISBN 978-0-7499-2344-0</ref><ref>Nov 27th 2002 Yorkshire Post "Looks that last" p.B11</ref> <ref>Nov 2002 Oxford Times Intuition supplement "Beauty Secrets are so simple" p27-29</ref> was published in 2002 with contributions from ], ] and many others leading models. Reprinted thirteen times, it has also been translated into several languages including Spanish, Hungarian and Latvian. It formed part of Victoria's Celebrity Inspiration in "Beauty Flash", 's weekly column in TV Now.<ref>Nov 18th 2006 TV Now – Dublin Liz Dwyer's "Beauty Flash"</ref> | |||
| Nixon's follow-up book ''Supermodels' Diet Secrets''<ref>Supermodels' Diet Secrets 2004 ISBN 0 7499 2517 5</ref>, based on her experience both as a model and latterly as a deli owner, was published in 2004 and the Daily Express<ref>Nov 4th 2004 Daily Express "Diet Secrets of the Supermodels" p44-45</ref> bought the rights to serialise it. ] described it as "Chic Eating" in his "Food for Thought" column in the Daily Mail's Night&Day magazine<ref>Feb 13th 2005 Tom Parker Bowles Daily Mail Night&Day magazine "Chic Eating" p49</ref> and her "success story" was featured in the London Evening Standard.<ref>May 12th 2005 Evening Standard "Secrets of My Success"</ref> | |||
| === Company director === | |||
| In 2006, with Michael Messenger, she co-founded the British company which designs and manufactures unique humanitarian aid products for medical charities and aid agencies such as , & , and . | |||
| === Books === | |||
| * {{cite book | |||
| |last = Nixon | |||
| |first = Victoria | |||
| |title = Supermodels' Beauty Secrets | |||
| |date = 2002 | |||
| |isbn = 978-0-7499-2344-0 | |||
| }} | |||
| * {{cite book | |||
| |last = Nixon | |||
| |first = Victoria | |||
| |title = Supermodels' Diet Secrets | |||
| |date = 2004 | |||
| |isbn = 0 7499 2517 5 | |||
| }} | |||
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