My beauty icons – and this sounds cheesy – have a beauty that comes from inside.
My style icons are Lucille Ball for her bouffant hair and all the updos, James Dean for his rockabilly style – the denim and rolled-up T-shirt thing. And I am also inspired by Dita Von Teese and Gwen Stefani. Their style is retro, but it’s still very feminine at the same time.
I’ve always found inspiration in icons that were really of purpose in their craft or calling. From Bob Marley to Maya Angelou to Malcolm X, inspiration came from seeing how committed they were to their vision and determining it themselves.
The DC Universe has the best villains in fiction, right? I don’t think there’s any group of villains collectively or anywhere else that come close to DC’s. Joker, Cat Woman, Lex Luthor, are all staples. A lot of the comic book icons are fiction icons.
Youth icons are born through beauty pageants.
I don’t have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to.
I love watching Zendaya or Victoria Beckham hit the red carpet, but my real style icons are the women that I see walking around every day.
David Bowie and Elvis Presley are my style icons.
If one tries to expose the Harvey Weinsteins of Bollywood, some very big empires and icons will fall down. My nephew was a victim of one of those. But who will fight their muscle? You need many Kangana Ranauts for that.
I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.
I like individuality in fashion – it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of high heels and suddenly they are ‘style icons.’
My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.
I find the idea of today’s icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.
We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.
For years I’ve been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don’t have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.
The Specials used to be my style icons. I was obsessed with them and the whole 2-Tone thing was a good look for me.
I don’t think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don’t think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.
There’s always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way.
I was at the radio station all the time and on the air all the time. I met John Travolta and a lot of the other big ’70s icons. Shaun Cassidy sang ‘Da Do Ron Ron’ to me onstage. I thought I was a rock star; I had an all-access-pass childhood.
When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets’ Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn’t yet know the word ‘foreshadowing.’ Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.
Fashion icons that are famous in Paris, it’s Charlotte Gainsbourg or even me on the Internet, but we wear the same clothes every day – a white t-shirt with jeans – so why are we fashion icons?
Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.
I’ve always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie from ‘Grey Gardens’ and, of course, like all my generation, I’m influenced by Kate Moss.
I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this ‘thing’ their God.
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