Female Style Icons

[Dystopiary]

 

[Raheem]

Pauline Black

 

[D'wards]

 

[JimW]

Maggie Cheung rocking all those lovely cheongsam in In The Mood For Love.

 

[campanula]

Old lady working in garden stock photo. Image of european - 27754908

Photo about Old lady, European, working in garden in summer picking yellow dandelions. Image of european, yellow, lady - 27754908

www.dreamstime.com

Style - always intimately bound up with function...what you are.

 

[Reno]

Iris Apfel, a former interior designer, became a style icon in her 80s.

Carmen dell'Orefice started modelling in the 1950s and was still an in-demand model in her 90s.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Tilda Swinton is always nicely turned out.

 

[moose]

 

[surreybrowncap]

 

[Reno]

The Swiss writer and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in the 1930s. She may be less famous than Katherine Hepburn or Grace Jones but it was groundbreaking queer people like her, who their style was inspired by.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Hepburn.

Prefer Katharine

 

[IC3D]

 

[Nanker Phelge]

 

[Nanker Phelge]

 

[Dr. Furface]

 

[dessiato]

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That album cover, and the album, are great. I waited years to see her live. There was a problem with the sound system and it was shit.

 

[youbeauty]

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Sandi Toksvig keeps quiet about her earlier career as a cosmonaut.

 

[dessiato]

I earlier referred to Karina Belkina. This is an example of her music and style. She has a very distinctive style.

 

[Reno]

I earlier referred to Karina Belkina. This is an example of her music and style. She has a very distinctive style.

Not so sure what's distinctive about her. Go to a retro night in London and you'll see hundreds of women dressed like her. And she's performing a Julie London cover in the style of the period.

Here is Julie London being stylish:

 

[Orang Utan]

Iris Apfel, a former interior designer, became a style icon in her 80s.

Carmen dell'Orefice started modelling in the 1950s and was still an in-demand model in her 90s.

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I wonder if she influenced Doon Mackichan’s Brooke Huberman in Toast Of Tinseltown

 

[surreybrowncap]

I wonder if she influenced Doon Mackichan’s Brooke Huberman in Toast Of Tinseltown
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I had the same thoughts

 

[RainbowTown]

Nina Simone.

 

[dessiato]

Not so sure what's distinctive about her. Go to a retro night in London and you'll see hundreds of women dressed like her. And she's performing a Julie London cover in the style of the period.

Here is Julie London being stylish:

I guess that living in Iberia for the last 16 years, I'm no longer in touch with London retro nights. Nonetheless I think she has a very distinctive style.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Fay Fife

 

[Cloo]

Fashion types often bitch about Helena Bonham Carter but I give maximum respect because a) she doesn't have a stylist and wears what she wants b) she's stunning and would look amazing in anything, c) fuck 'good taste'

 

[ska invita]

 

[Reno]

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Wrong thread !

Black & White Stripey Tops - irrational dislike

Once you have your top, accessorise it with socks https://www.moonlightshadow.online/collections/socks

www.urban75.net

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[Reno]

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I was just about to post about Björk, but would have gone for something that displays her avant-garde taste in fashion. She uses style to complement her artistry as a musician.

 

[ruffneck23]

I was just about to post about Björk, but would have gone for something that displays her avant-garde tastes in fashion.

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I was tempted but couldn't decide which one so just went for a boring one