Showing posts with label style icon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label style icon. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Style Icon: May Day



We all know Grace Jones is the epitome of style visionary, so it's no wonder that her fictional characters show the same amount of attitude on the big screen as she did performing music. I just watched A View to a Kill - mostly because I love the Duran Duran song - which she carried on her hair alone. Observe:







She spends almost the entire movie in an assortment of hoods, but one crucial martial arts scene does include nothing but this.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Style Icon: Madea

Yes, yes, yes and yes. I love every one of these looks:







Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Style Icon: Anais Nin





No one does french gypsy intellectual ballet dancer better than Anais Nin. Her '20s style accompanied her well into the second half of the century, with skinny eyebrows and romantic leanings. But perhaps my favorite tendency of hers is that distinct Silverlake Avant Garde that is a bit hippy, a bit Euro: