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In this column, AnOther takes a retrospective look at the style icons of the past

  • Eddie Aikau

    Vintage Style | Eddie Aikau

    This month marks AnOther's collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger, coinciding with the launch of the brand's surf shack collection. Highlighting great surfers, we remember Eddie Aikau, the first official lifeguard for the North Shore...

  • Lady Diana on a visit to Thailand in 1988

    Vintage Style | Princess Diana

    Earlier this week, ten dresses worn by the late Princess Diana went up for auction in London, raising over £800,000. From sequinned Catherine Walker gowns and Zhandra Rhodes cocktail dresses...

  • Molly Ringwald in a trademark cropped jumper

    Vintage Style | Molly Ringwald

    When Molly Ringwald placed her diamond stud earring in Judd Nelson’s ear in the closing scene of The Breakfast Club, hearts stopped everywhere. From her teen-angst birthday in Sixteen Candles, to her accessorizing thrift-store finds and...

  • Jack Skellington

    Vintage Style | Jack Skellington

    There are certain films so treasured that they become as synonymous with a season as the characters they portray. The Nightmare before Christmas, with its endearing love tale between Jack and Sally, haunting imagery...

  • Sandra Bernhard walks at Chanel S/S93

    Vintage Style | Sandra Bernhard

    “I’ve got a strange face,” Sandra Bernhard often comments, “but it works together.” Bernhard’s voluminous curls and sizeable lips were staple fixtures of the 1980s and 90s...

  • Margaret Thatcher

    Vintage Style | Margaret Thatcher

    Following the death of The Iron Lady, we revisit her Vintage Style feature from 2012...

  • The Wicked Witch of the West

    Vintage Style | The Witches of Oz

    From Shakespeare’s wayward sisters in Macbeth to the White Witch Jadis in The Chronicles of Naria, witchcraft has played a significant role onscreen and in literature. Most famous of the fictional witches are Glinda and Miss Almira Gulch...

  • Beyoncé backstage

    Vintage Style | Beyoncé

    Dressed in a figure-hugging black leather body, knee high boots and gloves against a kaleidoscope backdrop of pyrotechnics, body doubles and sparkling guitars, Beyonce’s Superbowl performance was, to use the only appropriate word, fierce.

  • Pauline Boty

    Vintage Style | Pauline Boty

    In Pauline Boty, artist, actress and muse, 60s London had the making of an icon. Beautiful – with looks reminiscent of Brigitte Bardot – she emerged from a resolutely normal middle-class upbringing to attend the Royal School of Art...

  • Wilt Chamberlain

    Vintage Style | Wilt Chamberlain

    Wilt Chamberlain, with his 7 ft 1 frame, tight shirts, multiple romances and oustanding athletic achievements represents the epitome of 70s playboy sportstar. He remains one of most successful and notorious basketball players in history...

  • The Spice Girls

    Vintage Style | The Spice Girls

    Posh, Sporty, Scary, Baby and Ginger: from their early days photographed for The Face magazine outside a Shoreditch council block in 1997, to selling out Wembley Stadium and closing the Olympics ceremony...

  • Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, 1950

    Vintage Style | Jackson Pollock

    This week at the Sotheby’s contemporary art auction, New York, a new record was set when Number 4 (1951) by Jackson Pollock sold for $40 million (£21.5 million)...