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

  • Helena Bonham Carter

    Vintage Style | Helena Bonham Carter

    On the week that celebrates all things Halloween, it is entirely fit to celebrate one of its modern-day ambassadors..

  • Boy George at the AnOther A/W12 launch party at Annabel's

    Vintage Style | Boy George

    When a unknown brunette in a red boater appeared on Top of the Pops in 1982 with ‘Do you really want to hurt me’, a proportion of straight men in Britain declared they had the hots for that pretty girl...

  • Florence Griffin-Joyner and her trademark talons

    Vintage Style | Athlete Florence Griffith-Joyner

    Known more commonly as Flo Jo, Florence Griffith-Joyner was an American track and field athlete. Regarded as one of the fastest runners of all time, she still holds the world record for the 100 and 200 metre sprints, both set in 1988...

  • Elvis Presley

    Vintage Style | Elvis Presley

    Elvis Presley considered a gun to be an accessory. In the late 60s, after a brief stint in the US Army, he would develop an intense obsession with collecting police badges and firearms, and in his former years he refused to travel anywhere...

  • Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland

    Vintage Style | Peter Sellers

    Peter Sellers, with his signature black-framed glasses and slim cut suits, stands out as one of the most iconic and a true emblem of British style...

  • Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987) Screen Test: Nico 1966

    Vintage Style | Nico

    There are a few women in recent decades who possess that transfixing combination of beauty and tragedy. Cult females, whose incredible talent was fractured by a harrowing thread of self-destruction. Nico is one of them...

  • Freddie Mercury, 1991

    Vintage Style | Freddie Mercury

    Hard-rock, glam-rock, spandex, fur, feathers, leather, glitter and sequins – Freddy Mercury was a visual explosion of elaborate unitards and showmanship...

  • Helen Gurley Brown February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012

    Vintage Style | Helen Gurley Brown

    This week saw the death of legendary Helen Gurley Brown, who passed away aged 90. Cosmopolitan’s editor from 1965 until 1997, she reinvented the magazine into the first sexually driven publication of its kind...

  • Muhammed Ali (Cassius Clay - Monopoly), Louisville, Kentucky, 1963

    Vintage Style | Muhammad Ali

    In 1996 Muhammad Ali, three-time world heavyweight boxing champion, lit the Olympic torch in Atlanta, moving a nation as he defied Parkinson’s disease to hold the flame...

  • Yayoi Kusama Fashion, New York, 1970

    Vintage Style | Yayoi Kusama

    "The obsessive character and the innocence of her artwork touch me. She succeeds in sharing her vision of the world with us", said artistic director of Louis Vuitton and art collector Marc Jacobs, who has admired the legendary Japanese...

  • Queen Elizabeth II, 1954

    Vintage Style | Queen Elizabeth II

    “I do not dress the queen”, Sir Hardy Amies once said, “We supply her with clothes – there is a difference.” For half a century Hardy Amies was the Queen’s official dressmaker, retiring only a year before his death aged 93...

  • Beastie Boys: Michael (Mike D) Diamond, Adam (MCA) Yauch and Adam (Ad-Rock) Horovitz

    Vintage Style | Adam Yauch

    Last week mourned the tragic loss of Adam - MCA - Yauch as he lost a three-year battle with cancer, aged just 47. Director, activist and one third of the Beastie Boys, his style was widely imitated the world over...