Female Style Icons

[Sue]

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I wasn't a huge fan of the swan dress but at least it was a bit different to the usual Oscars fare.

 

[hitmouse]

Not entirely sure whether Claude Cahun fits here or not, but until we have an "androgynous style icons" thread:

 

[Reno]

Louise Brooks may not have been the first actress to popularise the bob in the 20s but she was the most stylish and influential. She still feels very contemporary.

 

[killer b]

Mina Mazzini

 

[Reno]

Bettie Page, a model for fetish erotica in the 50s, became a huge style icon in the 80s and 90s and still has an influence on fashion.

 

[danski]

Like it or not, Madonna.



Eta... they’re all iconic looks, hence no pic.
I am not particularly a fan either.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Bettie Page, a model for fetish erotica in the 50s, became a huge style icon in the 80s and 90s and still has an influence on fashion.

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Remember seeing Gretchen Mol portray her in “The Notorious Bettie Page” some years back…

 

[Sue]

Louise Brooks may not have been the first actress to popularise the bob in the 20s but she was the most stylish and influential. She still feels very contemporary.

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I have a bob but have aspired to HER bob for decades without success.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

I have this in my kitchen

 

[surreybrowncap]

I have a bob but have aspired to HER bob for decades without success.

I’ve never had a bob but miss my Nan sending me ten bob for my birthday

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Though later styles more interesting

 

[surreybrowncap]

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Yeah - but where do you keep the ostrich

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

 

[May Kasahara]

 

[Orang Utan]

Roisin Murphy has a sense of fun I admire:

 

[petee]

 

[Skim]

 

[May Kasahara]

Roisin Murphy has a sense of fun I admire:
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Beat me to it, I love her

 

[Skim]

Vita Sackville-West:

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

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I think you misread the title. It's "Female Icons" instead of "Female cons."

 

[Skim]

Diana Vreeland:

 

[Skim]

Ana Gimeno Brugada:

 

[surreybrowncap]

A young Robert Wagner.....?

 

[Skim]

Zadie Smith:

 

[ska invita]

lADY mISS kIER (WITH gRACE jONES)

 

[Cloo]

Janelle Monae

 

[Reno]

Not Hepburn's style but a movie role where she played a con artist pretending to be a boy.

 

[hitmouse]

lADY mISS kIER (WITH gRACE jONES)

I'd heard of the bell hooks all lower caps name style, but the "all caps except the first letter" name style is a new one on me. Quite iconic though.

 

[ska invita]

I'd heard of the bell hooks all lower caps name style, but the "all caps except the first letter" name style is a new one on me. Quite iconic though.

Too lazy to un capslock it...long week