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

  • Steve McQueen, Barbra Streisand & Sidney Poitier, 1972

    Vintage Style | Barbra Streisand

    This week celebrates the 70th birthday of living legend Barbra Streisand. Always one to buck tradition, Streisand has a street of fake shops in the basement of her house where she keeps her vintage treasures...

  • Jonny Ramone in his trademark leather jacket

    Vintage Style | Johnny Ramone

    Last week it was announced that a posthumous autobiography by the late, great Johnny Ramone would be published. Tommy Ramone, the last surviving member of The Ramones, has written the foreword and Lisa Marie Presley, the epilogue...

  • Santa Claus illustrated by Thomas Nast, 1862

    Vintage Style | Mr. S. Claus

    With only three days left until Christmas, our latest Vintage Style post considers the style of Santa Claus. His defining dress is the product of several hundred years of ancient folklore and Pagan ritual meeting a Christian celebration,...

  • Betty Catroux, Yves Saint Laurent and Loulou de la Falaise outside the new YSL London boutique in 1969

    Vintage Style | Loulou de la Falaise

    On Saturday, November 5, 2011 the Yves Saint Laurent Pierre Bergé Foundation announced that muse and designer Loulou de la Falaise had died after a protracted illness aged 63...

  • Ian Curtis in concert, The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, 4 April, 1980

    Vintage Style | Ian Curtis

    Amidst the glam rock and disco hysteria of the 1970s, Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis was a stark utilitarian. The image of a sweated shirt and haunting, static stare, caught in a moment of frenetic onstage convulsion...

  • Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, late 1950s

    Vintage Style | Peggy Guggenheim

    “We’ve dressed in our best, and are prepared to go down like gentleman,” were the parting words of Peggy Guggenheim’s father on deck of the Titanic. Peggy, aged 14 at the time, would go on, for better or for worse, to be one of the most...

  • Soledad Miranda in Eugenie De Sade, 1970

    Vintage Style | Soledad Miranda

    The tragic car accident that killed Soledad Miranda (Soledad Rendón Bueno) in 1970 at just 27-years-old meant the Spanish-born actress never became the movie star her talent promised, her life ended just as an arranged meeting with a...

  • Gary Cooper in High Noon, 1952

    Vintage Style | Gary Cooper

    Silver screen-influenced men’s style can almost be split into two eras: pre and post-Gary Cooper. Previous to Cooper becoming part of Hollywood’s golden age in the mid 1920s, film stars were not only seen as American aristocracy but...

  • Diane Keaton and Woody Allen in Annie Hall, 1977

    Vintage Style | Diane Keaton

    Made famous through her roles in a series of Woody Allen films in the 1970s, actress Diane Keaton’s celebrity helped popularise the menswear as womenswear phenomenon...

  • Tom Selleck in one of his Hawaiian print shirts

    Vintage Style | Tom Selleck

    To coincide with Movember, an initiative to promote awareness for men's health issues, our latest Vintage Style post considers actor Tom Selleck...

  • Jean Genet

    Vintage Style | Jean Genet

    Sometimes, the fashion legacy of a famous figure owes itself not to the way they dressed but the sartorial influence of their life’s work. French avant-garde writer Jean Genet‘s inversion of the moral and literary zeitgeist gave way to an...

  • Bettie Page photographed by Bunny Yeager, 1954

    Vintage Style | Bettie Page

    A living incarnation of sunny 1950s American optimism, who also hinted at the radical socio-sexual shake-ups that the following decade would usher in, Bettie Mae Page from Nashville Tennessee, went from Attends Hume-Fog High School’s...