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Style Icon: Sue Sylvester

Having never been sporty, I have horrible memories of sports lessons at school, where I always picked last for teams. I have also always loved a musical and have more than my fair share of GBF's (gay best friends), so the… Read More Read More

Style icon: Rossana Orlandi

Rossana Orlandi is the owner of one of the most amazing shops we have ever visited (and believe me, between us, we have probably visited every major shop in the world worth knowing about) I was beside myself when I… Read More Read More

Style icon: Vera Neumann

We came across a lovely book about print designer Vera Neumann recently and have been intrigued by her ever since. Described as an unlikely revolutionary, Vera's print designs were everywhere in the 1960's and her influence is still very much… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Grace Kelly

It goes without saying that Grace Kelly is a style icon. Once labeled by Vogue as 'remote as a snow Queen', there is no doubt her timeless style and natural glamour is as aspirational now, as it ever was.  The… Read More Read More

Style icon: Madelaine Albright*

*Actually it’s her use of a good pin (brooch to the British) Madelaine Albright got her first job (after bringing up her daughters) at 39, which sets her up as a great example for women going back to work after… Read More Read More

Style icon: Caroline Baker

Journalist Caroline Baker has always been somewhat of an idol of ours. One of the first people to recognize the importance of street style and to encourage women to dress for themselves rather for men, we have always felt an… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Diane Keaton

Photo by Ruven Afanador for More Although she's often given a hard time by the press about the way she looks (remember the fuss about her Charlie Chaplin outfit for the Oscars? Apparently it is Not Done not to conform… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Barbara Louis

We have mentioned Stylelikeu before, as we love the video footage of real people talking about their own individual style. From time to time they feature the most fabulous, older, slightly eccentric individuals who are an inspiration to us.  We… Read More Read More

Style icon: Ines de la Fressange

It is rather far fetched to have Ines de la Fressange as a style icon for The Women's Room, since she clearly comes from another planet: bonkers long legs, super skinny despite having two kids, innate atyle and access to… Read More Read More

Style icon: Felicity Green

As part of the day job, we met Felicity Green, the inspiring fashion editor who gave Biba her first break and was influential in exploding 60s fashion onto the world via The Mirror Group, where for twenty one years she… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Tanya Reynolds

   The Women's Room was out to lunch this week with a couple of very stylish ladies, Antonia and Tanya from Proportions London. They are both at the cutting edge of fashion, designing and selling mannequins to the biggest fashion… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Jo Whiley (even tho’ the BBC is dropping her)

   What person from the BBC thinks it's a good idea to remove one of the coolest, most musically informed women on the planet (that would be Ms Whiley) from her morning slot on Radio One because she is too old?… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Rene Russo

            Back in 1999 when the film The Thomas Crown Affair came out, I wanted to be Rene Russo. She was 45 when she made the film and although she is an ex model and… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Tziporah Salamon

We found Tziporah Salamon on Stylelikeu.com, a fabulous blog dedicated to the thoughts and wardrobes of individuals with great personal style. Written by stylist, Elisa Goodkind and her daughter Lily, it offers a behind the scenes insight, (complete with video footage) into… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Li Edelkoort

  It's not often I claim to have an idol, my days of school girl crushes are well and truely over, but my admiration for trend guru Li Edelkoort comes pretty close. Founder of the trend forecasting company Trend Union, Li… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Carol Klein

In complete contrast to yesterday’s Anna Wintour piece (is it us or is Ms Wintour now smiling a lot more? Nothing to do with surgery, we’re sure), today we’re admiring the more down to earth –literally- Carol Klein. Chelsea Flower… Read More Read More

Style icon: Valerie Finnis

 Photo by Jan Baldwin for World of Interiors April 2009 We told you about the wonderful Valerie Finnis some time ago here at the Women's Room when we highlighted her involvement in the book Garden People which was on our… Read More Read More

Style icon: Mrs Robinson

There’s something very current about about the way Anne Bancroft looked in the 60s hit The Graduate, seducing the fresh faced Dustin Hoffman. That sense of grooming, careful makeup and smokey eyes not to mention the grown up lingerie we… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Joan Burnstein from Browns

    We have been reminded of the lovely Joan Burnstein, owner of retail emporium Browns in London and general buying guru, by The Thoughtful Dresser’s author Linda Grant.   Joan and her husband Sidney started Browns in 1970 and… Read More Read More

Fashionista: A Century of Style Icons by Simon Werle

Fashionista is a inspiring portrayal of fashion icons with unique and individual style who have inspired and helped promote fashion designers over the years. Icons include classics such as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Audrey Hepburn, it-girls like Edie Sedgewick and… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Marianne Faithful

Marianne Faithful has long been someone we are quietly obsessed with due to her inherent (and well documented) beautiful naughtiness when we were young and impressionable and her refusal to grow old and disappear. Although born with an angelic face… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Tilda Swinton

Tilda gets our best dressed woman award at the Oscars. Wearing Lanvin separates, a slick or red lipstick and over size bangles, she looked effortlessly stylish, Oscar worthy glamorous and most of all, true to herself. We love the 47… Read More Read More

Style Icons and fashion shows: Biba at Topshop

  Barbara Hulanicki at Topshop  The Women’s Room has been going to fashion shows for decades and although we always get excited about a new season, we are definitely past the breathless excitement stage that we used to feel when first… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Emmylou Harris and her gorgeous grey hair

It helps to be born gorgeous, which Emmylou clearly was (although she is suspiciously wrinkle free for a 62 year-old) but we so totally love the way she rocks grey hair. She seems to have gone from grey to nearly… Read More Read More

Style icon: Dame Vivienne Westwood

   Vivienne Westwood and Madonna both consider themselves style queens, but where Madonna is trying to hold back the years by constantly referencing how young she looks, the original Ms Westwood is attempting to forge a new path for older… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Diana Vreeland

No one who loves fashion can ignore the influence of the extraordinary Diana Vreeland, American fashion editor and style doyenne who reigned first at  Harper’s Bazaar magazine in New York (for a quarter of a century) and then at US… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Dame Edna for MAC

"Follow my beauty regime, possums, and you'll never be cosmetically challenged," says Dame Edna Everage. Her new limited edition cosmetics range for MAC includes nail varnish, lipstick gloss and eye shadows all in her trademark colours – pink, red, purple and… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Mrs Exeter

photo UK Vogue   From 1949-65 UK Vogue ran a regular style column from Mrs Exeter, a fictional character  who dispensed advice for women ‘of a certain age’ (she told us she was ‘fifty-odd’) who were keen to stay fashionable… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Helen Mirren

We love Helen Mirrens portrayal of Great Aunt Elinor in the new children's fantasy film Inkheart. The film is set in no particular time, but Dames Helens look is slighly 1920's. Apparantley, she had a lot of input into her… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Nancy Shevell does New York Chic

Visiting New York last week gave us the opportunity to take a close look at how our American sisters tackle the subject of style for older women. There’s a certain type of polished, groomed elegance that (admittedly wealthy) New Yorkers… Read More Read More