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Style Icon: Jean Muir

'She had such style. Real style that you could recognize. I love her for her individuality, her way of seeing a woman.'' Jean Paul Gaultier Strict attention to detail, technical excellence and a passion for the craft of dressmaking… Read More Read More

Style Icon (not): Barbie at 50

We’re not quite sure what the opposite of style icon would be, but Barbie is definitely it. Astonishingly, the plastic princess has reached the age of 50 without a wrinkle or fat roll and has taken, according to… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Natalie Massenet

Talk about understanding your customer and her guilty secrets. Net-A-Porter is one of our favourite designer websites for fashion porn (that’s looking at beautiful designer clothes on line that we are probably not going to buy). Owner and founder… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garcons

Just in case anyone doesn't know what the wonderful Rei Kawakubo from Comme des Garcons and Dover Street Market looks like, (see previous post on Comme and H&M) she's one of us. Born in 1942, she's a stylish older woman, rarely seen… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Iris Barrel Apfel

The individual, unconventional and eclectic style and taste of Iris Apfel is an inspiration. She and her husband founded the textile firm Old World Weavers in the fifties. They sourced fabrics from all over the world using old original looms… Read More Read More

Style icon: The Queen

We love the Queen here at the Women’s Room, she’s one of our favourite dressers, mostly because she’s one of the only woman in the UK that really has an original dress sense. OK, so she’s been a little stuck… Read More Read More

Style Icon – Dot Cotton

We think the wardrobe department at Eastenders must have a great time dressing the iconic June Brown. Dot Cotton continues to inspire us with her quirky colour combinations, on trend Liberty style prints and classic fully fashioned cardigans, accessorised with… Read More Read More

Style Icon – Irene Williams

The Women’s Room launches in a crazy week. Just as the main cash artery to sartorial satisfaction is severed, we come along with a blog about how to stay stylishly dressed and sane when you’re no longer 24 and look… Read More Read More

Icons of Women’s Style, by Josh Sims

This is a lovely book, not as I first thought on glimpsing the title, about stylish female icons, but about the actual clothes that have become icons, so the pencil skirt, the trench coat, the twinset, pyjama pants and so… Read More Read More

Style & Literary Icon: Joan Didion

I love Pheobe Philo for all sorts of reasons, not least because she designs wearable clothes for real women and has heralded a movement towards simple lines and pared down styling. Chosing the iconic writer Joan Didion as the face… Read More Read More

Accidental Icon: Musings Of A Geriatric Starlet, by Iris Apfel

Iris has written a book! Iris has written a book! I don’t really need to say any more, other than these few extracts indicate it’ll be a cracking read. I know Iris is everywhere now and even my kids know… Read More Read More

Dear ST Style: Please don’t ignore us

Over the last few months I have been disappointed in the direction the Sunday Times Style magazine has taken. Claudia Winkleman’s view on fashion (however witty) had been annoying enough, but the introduction of Georgia Toffolo’s column had me raging. … Read More Read More

Street Style from the Jaipur Literary Festival, With Ishtailista, 2017

Our friends Abhimanyu and Deeksha were shooting at the Literary Fair in Jaipur again this year and asked if we’d like more street-style images of the attendees, as they did for us last year. The literary festival grows bigger by… Read More Read More

David Bowie: An icon for our generation

There’s no doubt the next few days/weeks will be filled with tributes to David Bowie, highlighting his contribution to art, music, fashion and culture. One of the most important musicians of his era he influenced so much more than just… Read More Read More

Upscaled Boden With The Icon Collection

At the Boden press day for autumn 2015, there was real excitement over the Icons Collections, an upscaled, limited edition range of clothes that have a vaguely vintage (mostly 70s) feel about them. The fabrics used are more expensive (although… Read More Read More

The BAFTAS: Older stye icons

A recent interview in the Guardian with Patricia Arquette, features her thoughts on Hollywood, feminism and ageing in relation to her part in the wonderful film Boyhood where she was required to age naturally over 12 years for her role… Read More Read More

Books for the new year: Spitalfields Life and Advanced Style

One of my New Years resolutions is not to buy new books until I have finished reading the ones I have mounting up on the book pile of shame! Internet shopping has made buying books impossibly easy and the Amazon… Read More Read More

Vintage Style by Sarah Kennedy

I may be a little biased when it comes to this book, as the author Sarah Kennedy and I have been friends since we were 15 and dressed like Olivia Newton John in Grease! We have been through every hideous… Read More Read More

Middleagedmum.com: My 70’s style crush

There is a girl in my daughters year at school, who is the year 10 style crush. She has all the latest clothes and accessories and knows how to work a look. She is very pretty and has a glamorous… Read More Read More

Style Mantra: worship at the alter of the accessory

Ok, by now you must have realised we are more than a little obsessed with older style icons, especially if they are over 70, from New York City and preferably jewish!! It seems we are not the only ones. The… Read More Read More

We Love: Advanced Style

Some time ago I started a blog celebrating the unique style of older people. I love the eccentricity and often crazy style of the elderly, who have found their own individual way of dressing and are unrestricted by the boundaries of… Read More Read More