The Last of My Style Icons

It has been fun blogging about personalities whom I believe are style icons. I genuinely believe they are such icons based on the right choice of clothes and accessories they wear. I did find it interesting that no young personality made it to my list of style icons. It makes me think that one's own great style doesn't really show until one gets more mature or perhaps young people today are more prone to be just blind followers of what the media and designers would like them to wear even if the style dictated to them are not fit for their age and personality. Whatever the reason is...I really don't care. To each his own style.
Here are the last of my eternal style icons, sadly all of them passed away.


Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) - High fashion


Princess Grace of Monaco (1929-1982) - Serene and aristocratic


Katherine Hepburn (1907-2003) - All American and headstrong

Photos Courtesy of Music2MyEars
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My Style Icon: Isabel Preysler

Isabel Preysler one of Spain's and Europe's most elegant woman is my style icon. The Philippine born journalist and celebrity is the epitome of modern elegance.

Her style is high-end simplicity. She knows the right silhouette and cut that best suits her body, she knows the right design and palette for her age and the fashion accessories that goes with her total look. I call that style - "quiet elegance", never vulgar. Isabel complements her clothes and her clothes becomes her.

Isabel Preysler, never over-dressed nor under-dressed for any occasion. The lady with great fashion sense, brains and gracious personality. Truly an icon of style.

My Style Icon: Grace Jones

Fierce and fearless in her style and attitude is style icon Grace Jones.

Known for her androgynous flat top-do that was copied and imitated by numerous fashionistas and black men during the 80's, the giant padded shoulders, the body hugging suit jacket that is tapered tightly to the waist, the tailored pantsuit, the hood, the exaggerated balloon skirts, the red hair, the white hair, the crazy hats, veils and headdress and slapping a TV anchor's face on live televison is totally Grace Jones style. And just like wine her style gets better with age.

Hail to the real pop diva and Style Icon!!! Ms. Grace Jones.

Photos Courtesy of Music2MyEars
Photo Credit: Grace Jones at Bryant Park Fashion Show 2009
Photo Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38934532@N04/

My Style Icon: Carolina Herrera

Venezuelan fashion designer Carolina Herrera no doubt is one of the most stylish and best dressed woman in the world. As a fashion designer her palette is always contemporary, her fabrics and her draping simple and innovative, and her designs are always classic and modest. As Carolina Herrera, the designer and business woman she wears her clothes well, and is the perfect model for her own clothing line.

I love Carolina's neat lines and the feminine silhouette. I love how she wears her white long sleeve blouses with standing collars matched with long skirts or feminine trousers. The simplicity of her choice of jewelry and the way she accessorizes her outfit is certainly a style only Carolina owns.

Carolina Herrera mi Icono de Estilo.

My Style Icons: George Clooney and Johnny Depp

George and Johnny are two of Hollywood's royalty that I consider Style Icons. George Clooney's style is simple and classic. Always neat and dressed rightly for his age and personality. There is nothing left to explain, the man is a man's man. His sense of style, fashion and his personal lifestyle can be summarized in four letters - COOL.
Johnny Depp on the other hand is one guy whom I admire for being fashion forward the manly way. He is not afraid of his Bohemian style of dressing that separates (in my opinion) him from the other Hollywood male superstars who are stuck with the rigid tuxedo and business suit. The long-ish hair, the scruffy face, the use of accessories, or sometimes just showing up in Hollywood events in his T-shirt and jeans avec beret or fedora is such a breath of fresh air. Depp is one actor who I believe can even receive the Oscar wearing a kilt or sarong and still get away with it.

Go Clooney, go Depp we need more stylish men like you.

Photo Credit: George Clooney
Courtesy: People Magazine (Aug. 2007)
Image: Crosera Silvestri/Reuters/Landov

Photo Credit: Johnny Depp
Courtesy: marleyrosinski
Photo Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30621993@N02/

Stylos, Stylus, Style

Style has its origin from the Greek word "stylos" which means columns or columned. During the middle ages, around 1250-1300 it evolved to the word "stilus" which was derived from the Latin word "stylus." Stilus is a tool for writing, referring to any various pointed instruments used in drawing, artwork, etc. Later in the modern era it evovled to the new word "style" which presently means a lot of things:
1. the mode of expressing thought in writing or speaking by selecting and arranging words, considered w/respect to clearness, effectiveness and euphony.
2. those components or features of a literary composition that have to do w/the form of expression rather than the content of the thought expressed.
3. a manner of tone in discourse or conversation.
4. a particular, distinctive or characteristic mode or execution of an artwork.
5. a certain manner of action.
6. a mode of living, as with respect to expense or display.
7. a mode of fashion as in dress, especially good or approved fashion.
8. an elegant, fashionable or luxurious mode of living. And maybe a lot more.

Certainly this blog I created will touch on style that is synonymous with dressing and fashion and with other things where design and creativity is needed like architecture and interior design, the visual arts, the cultural arts, pop art, cinema, etc.

I like to keep this blog real and hopefully unpretentious. I created this blog not to attract readership but just to contribute and share my thoughts on the subject and more than ever learn from you as well. Come join me.