Retro Chick Style Icon

Future Retro: Blade Runner as Fashion Inspiration

14 April 2010

In just a few weeks time it will be May. I know, shocking, huh? It’s funny how I go through periods of having next to nothing to do, and then suddenly everything comes along at once. Well, May is shaping up to be one of those months. One of the things that happens in May [...]

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Retro Chick Style Icon – Drew Barrymore

11 March 2010

This is when I fell in love with Drew Barrymore. It was the 90s. I was a teenager, she was 4 or 5 years older than me and the rock n roll Princess of grunge glamour. With visible roots, risque outfits, bright red lips and a hell of an attitude. I wanted to *be* her. [...]

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Retro Chick Style Icon – Poirot

15 January 2010

Who says my style icons always have to be girls? I’ve been just a tiny bit in love with David Suchet’s Hercule Poirot since some point in the late 80s when I heard him tell someone that he wasn’t a “bloody little frog” he was a “bloody little Belgian” He exudes a particular kind of [...]

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Retro Chick Style Icon – Father Christmas

22 December 2009

Father Christmas, Santa Claus, Saint Nick. Whatever he’s called in your house you can’t help but respect a man who knows what suits him and sticks with it. He never lets his look get stale. He varies colour and accessories to create a look that is instantly recognisable, and uniquely his. Father Christmas is a [...]

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Retro Chick Style Icon and Christmas Giveaway – Audrey Hepburn

16 November 2009

I’ve been meaning to make Audrey Hepburn my style icon for some time. She was one of my first “vintage” icons when I was a teenager. I longed for her delicate eflin glamour, though sadly as I have always been on the curvy hips and waist side I was always thwarted in my attempts to [...]