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

  • Kurt Cobain, tour bus, 1989

    Vintage Style | Kurt Cobain

    To coincide with the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's iconic album Nevermind, Vintage Style considers the style of frontman Kurt Cobain. Thrifted, holey, unwashed, unbranded and miss-matched, defined the late singer's wardrobe...

  • Rita Hayworth for Gilda, by Robert Coburn, 1946

    Vintage Style | Rita Hayworth

    When Rita Hayworth teased off her elbow-length gloves by the fingertips with unprecedented erotic abandon, wearing a strapless dress split to the thigh, the dyed redhead with pin-waved locks pre-dated cartoon sex-bot Jessica Rabbit by...

  • Jean Shrimpton, 1963

    Vintage Style | Jean Shrimpton

    This month, British fashion institution Burberry revealed their autumn/winter 2011 campaign photography shot by Mario Testino, the inspiration for which was another great British style inamorata, Jean Shrimpton.

  • Elizabeth Taylor, 1955

    Vintage Style | Elizabeth Taylor

    On the 23rd of March 2011, in Los Angeles, the actress and humanitarian Elizabeth Taylor passed away aged 79. One of the most optimistic tributes to her style legacy came from Dita von Teese who tweeted, “Rather than be sad for the loss of...

  • Annie Lennox in 1983

    Vintage Style | Annie Lennox

    Vocalist, songwriter, musician, campaigner and all round powerhouse from the iconic 80s group the Eurythmics, Annie Lennox stood like an almighty totem in the gender blurring sartorial landscape of the early part of that decade...

  • Lux Interior, former frontman of The Cramps

    Vintage Style | Lux Interior

    To say that The Cramps late frontman Lux Interior (né Erick Lee Purkhiser) had swagger would be an understatement – in skin-tight PVC catsuits that clung unashamedly to every part of the his anatomy, Lux Interior’s rubber-like on-stage...

  • Lou Reed, January 1 1985

    Vintage Style | Lou Reed

    He’s a former member of legendary 60s and early 70s rock band The Velvet Underground, with critically acclaimed solo work – throw in some leather, a lot of black and sunglasses and Lou Reed has all the essential ingredients of that elusive...

  • Jackie Onassis in Capri

    Vintage Style | Jackie O

    Master of the chic accessory, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy “O” Onassis is still one of America’s proudest sartorial figures. Her pristine, effortless style was punctuated by her characteristic dark oversized sunglasses, neat...

  • Mick Jagger, London, 1987

    Vintage Style | Mick Jagger

    From the 1960s onwards, Rolling Stone Mick Jagger’s characteristic dandyism redefined what it meant to dress in a masculine way as he successfully pulled off Ossie Clark jumpsuits and silk paisley shirts with a red-hot swagger

  • Marilyn Monroe & Joe Dimaggio, 1954.

    Vintage Style | Iconic Wedding Dresses

    Tomorrow’s Royal Wedding will, by default, see the first outing of a dress that will be re-examined for years to come, significant for what it represents in British history.

  • Paul Newman

    Vintage Style | Paul Newman

    The sun-cracked face and well-worn tan-hide boots, a denim-clad silhouette cast against a Mid-West backdrop, which became the immortal image of late actor Paul Newman, pre-dated Ralph Lauren’s adoption of the archetypal all-American...

  • Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, 1959

    Vintage Style | Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac

    As pioneers of the literary sub-cultural Beat movement of 1950s America, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac’s vigorously anti-materialistic convictions underpinned arguably the first anti-fashion trend at a time when fast fashion began to...