https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:52:46 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-367415 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:29:44 +0000 Sally 367415@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Chrissie Hynde, Deborah Harry, Stevie Nicks.....I love the whole rock chick look. While I can probably adapt it for my body type, its not that suitable for my lifestyle as a professional working mother. Also I worry that i might be dressing too young. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-367372 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:20:33 +0000 AlteratnsNeeded 367372@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>tarzy - Thank you so much! I'm incredibly flattered to be added to this list of impossibly stylish and chic ladies! My co-workers must be curious why I'm grinning like a total geek right now. :)</p> <p>suz - I hear ya! I'm bored of my jeans everyday too! It's a culmination of working in very casual industries (biotech &amp; now a small marketing firm), and living in Southern California. We seriously wear jeans to EVERYTHING out here, geez! In fact, as we type, a package is arriving today full of non-jeans that I hope *fingers crossed* will fit.</p> <p>As for a style icon...Zooey Dechanel! I don't necessarily want to dress like her, but I love how she's stylistically a complete package. She has a unique style that she rounds out with everything else about her, from her clothes, to her hairstyle, to even the music she sings. You can tell she has fun with her style, and I really appreciate that. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-367001 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:29:12 +0000 rosee 367001@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't have a style icon per se, but i admire the style of many people who have a simple, gamine style -- which unfortunately does not work for the fairly new size 12 me. Even when slimmer, I had more athletic legs, rather than super slim, which means some of the styles that work for my inspirations don't work for me.<br /> Off the top of my head: Audrey Hepburn, Katherine Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Sophia Coppola, Audrey Tautou (sp.?), Juliette Binoche, Lauren Hutton, some of the French girls related to /daughters of Jane Birkin (names slip me at the time). I also like the styles of several musicians though I wouldn't necessarily do the look myself.<br /> I pay some attention to bloggers (I usually link from YLF posts), but I admire the street style looks of many of them much more than any celebrity. They're still a little unattainable for me at the moment but more so than the money-glam styles. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366996 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:58:06 +0000 RandomThoughts (Andrea) 366996@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't have a style icon but hmm... Maybe Chrissie Hynde would be fun to take inspiration from. Tailored + rock 'n' roll = yay! </p> <p>But I do not have the face to pull off that hair. I'd look like Cousin It's weak chinned cousin. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366995 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:55:01 +0000 fathenry 366995@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What an interesting thread. My style Icons are Audrey Hepburn and Angie. I watch breakfast at tiffany's at everytime I'm home sick. I really like her classic style. That is most often what I feel comfortable in and gravitate too.</p> <p>Angie's is more trendy and edgy than what I wear but I like it and learn from it all the time! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366983 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:53:03 +0000 crazyone 366983@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't have a style icon either. I do see certain pictures and admire the style in them, but the main takeaway is that I like "well put togetherness" more than anything else. </p> <p> Care to suggest anyone? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366969 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:00:40 +0000 Angie 366969@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>High five, Julie, for *also* picking an old male pop star as your style icon :)</p> <p>High five, Steph, for also not being inspired by celebrities. I guess I don't think of Audrey and Grace as celebrities - but they are! And of course, I adore them too.</p> <p>MaryK, you have killer style! I am humbled to have inspired it any small way. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366933 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:45:58 +0000 greenglove 366933@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Audrey Hepburn- LOVE her style. I would look awful with her hairstyle and her body type is impossible to copy.</p> <p>I also love Grace Kelly and Katherine Hepburn but too classic for my features and lifestyle. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366895 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:25:11 +0000 Anonymous 366895@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I really love Eva Mendes' style, but sadly, I'm just not a brunette bombshell. Maybe in my next life. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366888 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:08:31 +0000 tarzy 366888@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz - I'm guilty of jeans every day! I need to find an alternative, but I don't wear skirts/dresses. I also love that Katharine Hepburn/Annie Hall look of trousers, but as a writer working at home, that just feels too dressed up. (When I write I slump, slouch, put my feet up on the desk - I'm sure you know the drill!) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366886 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:01:35 +0000 Suz 366886@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tarzy, I read Alterations Needed, too! I'm not as super-petite as she is, but I find she still gives good advice on fit, and although I get tired of the jeans every single day thing, I like her style, too. Apart from the high heels, that is! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366882 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:49:09 +0000 Bianca 366882@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well, not a icon per say, but if I could walk around all day in outfits from the 40's and 50's all day, I would. Nipped in waistlines and heels, pencil skirts. ahhhhhh! Not very practical for a MOTG! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366874 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:42:18 +0000 tarzy 366874@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well, this isn't a style icon, but I recently came across this blogger who dresses the way I love to dress. She even has curly hair like me. Problem is she's a teeny tiny petite, and even when I wear similar clothes, they just don't look the same on me. I love her shoes, but my wonky feet can't wear peep toe pumps. </p> <p>Her style is very simple and basic, and everything fits her (something I am learning from Angie.) She definitely has her formula down. Even though I'm a completely different body type, it's nice to find a blogger who dresses the way I like to dress!</p> <p><a href="http://www.alterationsneeded.com/2011/06/week-in-outfits-6411.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.alterationsneeded.c.....-6411.html</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366853 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:13:38 +0000 Debora 366853@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great thread! I'll have to give this some thought.</p> <p>Una, we looked at Mt. Holyoke with DD 10 years ago. Our son, who was 6 yrs old at the time, came along for all of the college tours. He took one look at the campus and exclaimed "This is it! This is the college for me!" I remember to this day how his little face fell when we explained to him that it was an all-women college.</p> <p>Coincidentally, we are visiting colleges with him now, and he is scheduled to visit two next week. Mt Holyoke is not on the list. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366852 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:12:56 +0000 CocoLion 366852@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Stanford, class of 1981.</p> <p>My style icons are Keith Richards, Carrine Roitfeld, David Bowie. Considering two of them are male, and one of them has access to the priciest clothing in the world, they are hard for me to copy. But they do inspire me! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366797 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:13:14 +0000 catgirl 366797@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's right, I forgot Vassar was co-ed! My memory is so bad. </p> <p>I did a whole Seven Sisters tour one year for student government and it was amazing how each one had a different feel. Wellesley is very different from Holyoke, for example... Interesting! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366793 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:08:12 +0000 Steph 366793@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Vassar went co-ed in 1969, so way before my time. I didn't want to go to an all-women's school, so I wouldn't have attended if it weren't co-ed. It was about 60-40 (female-male) when I attended, and I believe it still is. Vassar is the only Seven Sister college to go co-ed on its own and maintain its independence (as opposed to Radcliffe, or Barnard, which is still all-women's, but shares so much with Columbia). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366788 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:03:03 +0000 catgirl 366788@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Steph, high five to you! Is Vassar still a women's college today? I will never give $ to BMC if it ever goes co-ed.</p> <p>April, that would be AWESOME. We went to some crazy parties at Penn, and I lived at 15th and Spruce for two summers.</p> <p>"It's a small world!" There, I said it.</p> <p>I can't believe I can't remember the name of the giant mall out there. But back in the day, we used to all our shopping at the Junior League thrift stores! So Main Line.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366778 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:54:22 +0000 Steph 366778@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This thread has made me realize I don't really have celebrity style icons...or any style icons, really. How strange. </p> <p>Una, just had to say hi to a fellow Seven Sister (Vassar, not Bryn Mawr). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366760 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:34:50 +0000 Irene 366760@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Style Icons I like: Audrey Hepburn, Emma Watson, Keira Knightley... all of them thin, and tall, and twiggy-like.</p> <p>Style Icons I look like and should look after: Marilyn Monroe, Kelly Brook (?) and Scarlett Johanson, whose dressing styles I don't like at all because they are too sexy for my taste. Meeh. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366746 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:17:17 +0000 April 366746@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So glad you saw my comment, Taylor -- it's very true. :)</p> <p>Una, we may not have overlapped at Bryn Mawr, but while you were there, I was right up the road at Penn. I was class of 86, but ended up graduating in 89 due to some economic setbacks. This is the part where one of us says "small world." ;)</p> <p>And I do go back to Bryn Mawr, since I still live just a few miles away. I also see a number of the professors out in the real world since we have kids on the same sports teams. If you come in for your 25th, we must have a YLF gathering in Philadelphia! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366737 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:53:31 +0000 taylor 366737@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aww, April, touched beyond words!!<br /> Considering you have several AT dresses in your closet I would love to "Pick and Pull"!!! and you own very fab style!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy/page/2#post-366698 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:21:15 +0000 catgirl 366698@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>April, how fun! Sadly, we didn't overlap. I graduated in 1988, and I believe Kate Hepburn spoke in 1985. I really miss the beautiful campus and the camraderie of a women's college. My 25th is in 2 years - so excited to go back there in the spring and see all the trees in bloom. Do you ever go back?</p> <p>May Day was my nemesis because even back then I had an issue with wearing white! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy#post-366689 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:12:33 +0000 April 366689@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I went to graduate school there in my 30s and before that, I taught for a few years at the nursery school that's linked with the psych department. I was around in one capacity or another from 1993 - 2006.</p> <p>Did we overlap? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy#post-366687 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:10:08 +0000 RoseandJoan 366687@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ooo, Debbie Harry and Bowie, not very practical for the school run! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy#post-366684 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:07:26 +0000 catgirl 366684@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>April, I did! Did you? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy#post-366682 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:07:01 +0000 April 366682@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Una, did you go to Bryn Mawr??? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy#post-366681 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:06:45 +0000 Lisa 366681@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I really enjoy Angelina Jolie's style. But I am not that tall, I do not have the same body frame or shape, or the mysterious dark eyes or hair. I would look flat out ridiculous in a pair of leather pants. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy#post-366666 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:41:34 +0000 catgirl 366666@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cindy, I'm a HUGE fan of Katharine Hepburn. She was an alum of my college, and she spoke at commencement on our 100th anniversary - so amazing and such a remarkable woman. We watched "The Philadelphia Story" every spring - it was a mandatory ritual for all students! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-have-a-style-icon-you-cant-copy#post-366653 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:24:03 +0000 CK 366653@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have to say that other Hepburn, Katharine. If I wore the menswear looks she is famous for, I think I would just look like...a man. And those wide legged pants! Love them, but I would drown in them. </p>