Who Is Your Fashion & Style Icon?

[susseinmcswanny]

Despite the vapid "let's just sit around and soak up each other's awesomeness" vibes he gives off I have to admit I'm becoming a little bit obsessed with Tyrone Susman's style. It's not exactly for me per se but it's growing on me and I'm starting to enjoy it like some guilty pleasure lol


source: instagram

 

[chrislit]

Harry Styles
Asap Rocky
Pharrell
Robert Downey Jr

 

[softgrey]

some of these posts explain a lot...
LOL...

my mom... she is the very definition of the word CHIC...

also...myself...
when I see old pics and vids, I have to admit that i really knew what i was doing, even from a very young age...
when i get a little lost, i look back at old pics and remind myself who i am...

i'm just really f-ing cool...

......


*cue the BTS song...
you can't stop me loving myself...

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ I knew before coming here that you were going to say yourself

 

[softgrey]

^ I knew before coming here that you were going to say yourself

...

well- i have a body of evidence now...


i never would have said that when i was younger...
taking outfit pics is a REALLY good idea...
i keep saying that to everyone...
not to show to anyone, but as a personal record...

 

[Drusilla_]

my grandma, she had really interesting style in her old photographs, her hairstyles were pretty inventive...and good taste in jewellery, I'm wearing one of her pendants as I type this. We had similar taste in colourful clothes, she hated cream and most pastels just like me lol.

early streetstyle blog/fashion outfit blog people.... before they started piling on the "it items" and became walking adverts for whatever show they were going to and before the fashion blogs all died off (yes I know, I'm being very "good old days" about it but it was so refreshing in 2005-08 to see what actual stylish people wore out and about)... I was a big fan of susie bubble, moohoop, dreamecho, kingdom of style etc. I remember checking the facehunter, sartorialist, garance dore etc daily...also went through a lot of FRUiTS magazine...those guys and people like susie or the Tokyo Bopper shop staff literally taught me to think differently about how to wear and combine things. I went to one of my uni parties wearing a skirt as a dress as a direct result of their influence. ...wore shirts as skirts..sheer stuff everywhere... generally disrespected all the 'rules' of dressing and regretted nothing lol.

*cue the BTS song...
you can't stop me loving myself...

!!!! I did NOT expect to find another BTS fan on TFS! And the song is right, be your own idol!

I actually find j-hope's looks quite inspirational, his hypebeast-y style is not my type but he has a good sense of colour and does some really cool and unexpected colour combinations in his outfits, I have no shame in admitting I rip those off for mine sometimes.

 

[Aanyagaud]

Living Legend non other then

Tom Cruise

 

[eugenius]

I wouldn't necessarily say "my style icon", but if I had to pick, I'd go with Angelo Flaccavento. He seems to have that cool, modern-day dandy look down-pat, but without looking like Hamish Bowles or Stanford Blatch. And I think he's got a lot of ink, so that combination of well-made clothing + tattoos really speaks to me.

 

[susseinmcswanny]

Is it weird to say Liberace lol

 

[Drusilla_]

Is it weird to say Liberace lol

lol no more than it would be to say the kids from Stranger Things (i'm currently watching season 3, there are some very, very cute vintage dresses and tops/shorts/jeans in there).

 

[Blio]

Who is your fashion/style icon overall? (you may have 2 icons i.e overall and current trends)

What do you like about their style and how do you incorporate their trademark look into your everyday style?

How much do they infulence your wardrobe?


Discuss

I don't really have an icon only influences, probably a lot of retro future type stuff from old TV shows I grew up with such as Space 1999, Logan's Run, a host of others. There was a certain futuristic style they used in some 70's sci fi that probably had an influence on me given the clothes wear. I always thought those outfits looked really cool , a sharp and neat kind of style.

 

[Drusilla_]

....

I do not know how to explain, i like people that wear their clothes well, that wear something because it has a certain functionality in their internal logic. The clothes do not need necessarily have to be practical, but they need to be worn to be lived in. Whether in the lap of luxury or down at he pub, they have to be an integral part of their lives not the aim.

I think a lot of "fashionable" people nowdays dress around an idea, they dress to be a projection of that idea, making it all look incredibly sterile.

I actually agree with this - the people I personally think are stylish have always had that quality to them, like the clothes are just part of their lives or an expression of how they feel that day, not like the going out and clotheshorsing was the MAIN point of the outfit. Even when they're models - it's why everyone was so obsessed with Kate back in the day, and with Irina Lazareanu c. 2006-07, they had that flair but it just felt like that was part of them. It's been eight years since this post but it's more true than ever, no matter how much Vogue tries to push the idea that "beautiful woman wearing trendy clothes/the right labels" is all it takes to be stylish.

As for who I consider my personal style icons (not that I want to be them or dress exactly like them but in general I like their style and try to dress in a way that would not embarrass me if I ran into one of these women irl even if one of them is dead)

Audrey Hepburn
Winona Ryder (both in the 90s and now, she embodies that quality I speak of and seems to do it while hardly trying)
Courtney Love (yeah I know the contrast with #1)
Kirsten Dunst
Sofia Coppola
Rihanna
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

 

[penny609]

also...myself...

Thought the same a few days ago... Not that I am extremely stylish and avant-garde right now but when I look back (or just think back) at what I used to wear 12-15 years ago, it feels like I was really in tune with myself back then. That Rick Owens jacket mixed with cheap second-hand crap was... Shame I neglected my outfits for so long since these golden days but it's going to be fixed soon

Otherwise I've never had style icons, just often fall in love with combinations of characters and outfits.

 

[helmutnotdead]

Suzanne Koller.

 

[MasonD]

Hey,
This is a good one, I haven't thought of it, but now I may say... Victoria Beckham and Miranda Kerr.

 

[Drusilla_]

I think I can add to the pantheon.....my younger self. I just realised a LOT of the stuff I'm buying vintage is stuff I was obsessed with when it was new in the mid-late 00s collections (old Marni, Dries, Marc Jacobs, and the odd spot of Comme plus the Ferragamo Varas in the novelty colours I was obsessed with at 21)