Which Celebrity is Your Style Icon?

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Your result: Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift is known for her feminine style: You’ll usually catch her in a-line skirts and dresses, patterned tights, and layered sweaters and jackets. Like Taylor, you enjoy embracing all things girly when you get dressed.



Taylor Swift‘s style is girly and slightly whimsical, and this lace dress is right up her alley. Pair it with a bright red coat for a fun pop of color, and try a pair of vertical striped tights to add in an element of whimsy. A crochet beret, brogue shoes, and a clock necklace add the finishing touches to this Taylor Swift-inspired look.

Couldn't be a better result for me. Love the outfit too, the watch necklace, crochet beret, and red coat especially. When you get yours, it also shows descriptions for other style icons, and they're pretty accurate.

Style Inspiration: Faerie Princess

I've been rereading "The Looks Book" which is designed to help you appreciate your body (although frankly some of the pro-fat, anti-skinny comments annoy me) and figure out what your personal style is. i adore the Ice Queen, Gamine, and Bohemian, but I think the one that suits me even more than those ones is the Faerie Princess- loose waves, ethereal beauty, corset vests, Victorian boots, circlets, pale dewy makeup, and of course, the POINTY EARS!

Some of my new style icons and inspirations:

Cate Blanchett as Galadriel in LOTR

Michelle Pfeiffer as Ladyhawke (LOVE that she doesn't have the stereotypically long locks, cropped and pixie instead!)

The bohemian fairy rocker Stevie Nicks

Ethereally beautiful Tori Amos as the Ingenue, a makeup style based off many a Botticelli painting in Kevyn Aucoin's Making Faces

Tori Amos on a snail. Because what says magical being more than a chiffon-drenched redhead on a snail in a gorgeous forest?

Queen Susan (Anna Popplewell) and Queen Lucy (Georgie Henley) in The Chronicles of Narnia.

Robin Wright as Buttercup in The Princess Bride

Taylor Swift, with her flowing golden curls and girlish love of long sparkly gowns and fairy tales, is a true Fairy Princess.

Exotic singer Leona Lewis is fairly modern and edgy, but she's always very romantic looking.

This is a great look because it's so modest! (Unless you go as "sexy" Princess Aurora or something, in which case, you're doing it wrawng.) So basically, Faerie Princesses just need lace, antique jewelry, shimmery light makeup, loose waves and curls (or short, feathery hair if you love Isabeau's unusual look), and just look as if you'd stepped out of a fairy tale or Botticelli painting.

Audrey Hepburn, a Fashion Icon?

If you ask a young girl (especially a girly one) who her top style icon is, chances are she will say Audrey Hepburn, especially in her most iconic role in Breakfast At Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn is considered a huge fashion icon, famous for her Givenchy gowns and generally fancy stuff.... but my question, which may shock you, is why?
Why is she famous for her expensive designer clothes? Why is she considered an icon for wearing them? Contrary to very popular opinion, Audrey did NOT normally wear those things. We imagine her always in a little black dress or Givenchy outfits, when in reality she prefered casual, sometimes plain clothing, because it was more comfortable. Unlike most "style icons", she put comfort over trends, designs, and whatever will capture the public's attention the most. There are even several pictures of her in more casual clothing. Why do we consider her a fasion icon just for wearing what she was paid to wear in movies (such as the very famous LBD in Breakfast, the sparkly princess gown in Roman Holiday, her stunning white and black Ginvenchy dress or even the simpler white turban and hoop earrings in Sabrina) or for magazine shoots or at events? She obviously liked the clothes or she got to wear, but she was supposed to dress like that.
Audrey Hepburn did not normally dress like the things she was asked to wear:

The War and Peace dress, which pretty much defines how girly and regal she was.

The look for How to Steal A Million

The Princess Anne gown in Roman Holiday

The Givenchy ballgown her Cinderella character wore in Sabrina

The tailored jacket, white turban, and silver hoop earrings that showed how sophisticated the poor but lovestruck Sabrina Fairchild wore.

The iconic Little Black Dress, the one everyone copies when they try to emulate Audrey's look from this (overrated, IMO) movie. Did you know she could barely even walk in it, it was so formfitting? Doesn't sound comfortable to me- and comfort was Audrey's favorite style took.

No, no.... this is what she liked to wear when she could:

She LOVED capris!

I would've loved to see her in that baseball cap!

OK, she DID have to wear this for a movie... but you can't deny it screams casual but very cute. I LOVE this outfit and wish I could pull it off as well myself (but long skirts like this aren't flattering with my defined waist)

And honestly, if you tried dressing so casually in front of today's trend-obsessed "fashionistas" and "style gurus", you know they would totally laugh in your face. Why? Not only was she, like so many people in the working world today (busy mothers, unmaterialistic people, hard-working athletes, or people who just don't care to dress in anything but jeans, sneakers, and a tee shirt, which is great) into comfort over show, they are not actually style geniuses; they are trend sheep.

I am not into a lot of very casual clothes. I like understated things, like a lot of Grace Kelly's 50's dresses and casual outfits, but not plain long sleeves and capris with almost no accessories. Just not my thing. However, if it is yours, I applaud you! My grandma is a busy person, even in retirement. She gardens, swims, runs errands for us all, shops, does yoga (Pilates are better, by the way... not so Buddhist) works outside a lot, mostly. So this is pretty much her style, and she also likes the Jackie O. sporty style (that's another post I'll have to do later- Jackie was a sport, not a true Chanel box-jacketeer) and I admire her for it. She mostly wears capris, straight jeans, brown sandals, sports sandals or Nike sneakers, t-shirts often in bright shades of green great for moving around in, yoga clothes, and sometimes a gold chain necklace. Simple and all about comfort, exactly what Audrey was into.

Yeah, this is from another movie- whatever! It's still very Hepburn, no?

Are we too obsessed with fashion and "style icons"?

Yes, fashion can be fun and celebrities' style cam be equally fun to admire, but do you think we maybe take it all too seriously? We have whole magazines, books, websites, and TV shows dedicated to talking mindlessly about what celebrities are wearing, what designers and making, and "trends" we ought to be wearing (no matter that a good portion of us couldn't afford a fraction of the stuff, and most of us wouldn't even want to!), etc. I mean, it's only clothes, for goodness' sake, isn't it?
Yes, it is, which is why we shouldn't fixate on it so much. Think about it: how do you think it makes you look when you constantly think about what you, celebrities, your friends, and people you don't even know off the street are wearing? Would you like to be judged solely on something as shallow as the clothes you have on, whether they're in style, expensive, or fancy or not? A lot of people I love aren't especially stylish. Should I criticize them harshly for it? No, I would feel like a scumbag for insulting them just for what they feel like wearing or can get on their budgets. That's so mean and classless, really. So I'm trying not to do it too much to stars either (but honestly, if a star is dressing like a hussy, I will probably call her a hussy, because that is how she's implying she wants to be seen as, by dressing that way).

Jennifer Garner- as probably the only Hollywood actress who makes a halfway decent parent- or dare I say, a good one?- because she's always seen playing, spending time with, and caring for her 2 young daughters instead of clubbing, wearing disgustingly pricey gowns at every event for publicity, and selling her kids out to the 'razzi *coughbrangelina*, is often criticized for dressing "frumpy". WHO CARES? she's a working mom, not an attention-seeker who prefers making money, attention, and looking gkamorous like Angie Jo' to bringing up healthy, happy kids who don't have to have a camera shoved in their face during every outing their parents force them to go to. And honestly, she's not even that terrible-dressed, and is still gorgeous in anything.

PLEASE don't be those girls- or worse, women- who HAVE to be what they perceive as "perfect" all the time. It's not admirable, modest, ladylike, or a bit wise. You won't die if you think about the world instead of Marc Jacobs, shoes, what's "sexy", what your favorite celeb is wearing, what to wear on the street that will garner the most attention, or if round-toed heels are still in or not. Instead, have a real hobby. Write a blog about a current issue. Donate some clothing to charity. Exercise (I guarantee that will feel better than any $400 pair of stilettoes). Go outside for a week without a bit of makeup on. Live!

And speaking of that... while obsessing over fashion and trends is shallow, materialistic, and just plain makes you like unintelligent and vapid, it IS important to be honest about who you are by how you dress. Don't want to be seen as an unrespectable hussy? Don't dress like one. Don't want to trick people into thinking you're a hobo? Don't dress like one. Don't want to get called gothic? Don't wear all black 24/7, studs, 4 pounds of silver jewelry, a mask of white powder and black makeup on every feature, with a scowl permanently pressed onto your face. What I'm getting at is, dress to show who you are- a classy lady that walks with her shoulders back, her head tall, but not at all in a vain, look-at-me way you see far too many stars on the red carpet (or queen bees at high school and sorority girls on the street) doing. Modesty and confidence = class, and class is always in style.

Style: Vivien Leigh

I love that there's so many pictures of her with a kitty- usually this little Siamese one.

Besides being easily one of the most gorgeous classic Hollywood stars (or any Hollywood stars, really), Gone With the Wind megastar Vivien Leigh had great style too.

Terrible color on her, but still.

Elizabeth, Marilyn, Jane, take note: no cleavage, short skirts or form-fitting bodices are necessary for beauty, style, or sexiness. Modest is now and always will be hottest.

Her romantic, (usually) modest, and slightly gypsy-esque style and  goes very well with her faraway, highly expressive and slightly sad green-blue eyes (which I always thought, along with the rest of her , made Liz Taylor, God bless her, the poor man's Vivien Leigh), making her look exactly as if she'd stepped out of a fairy tale or an oil painting. Her exotic beauty and passionate looks only enhanced this. When she gave someone a cold stare, it was like being caught in a silent blizzard. When she smiled, though, everything had a glow. Either way, her marvelous expressions and stunning beauty on top of her glamorous outfits always made you feel something.

I totally did not ever notice she had dark hair on her arms too! I always did a little bit (although it's lighter now) and always annoyed me, but this is nice to have some weird physical trait in common with such a person as her. :-)

It's Just Plain Sandra Dee!

I already liked Sandra Dee when I first heard of her awhile back. And why not? She's an adorable little sweet, girly blonde, and represents everything girls today strongly lack (modesty, chastity, femininity, sophistication without forgetting she's still young, something the girls and young women today would be wise to copy- dressing like a tramp and acting like one does not make you attractive or grownup!). I watched some of Gidget on Youtube yesterday and I straight up fell in love with her! If you haven't seen Gidget, I quite recommend it; her character of the same name was perfect for Sandra, and her "friends" in the movie are pretty close to how girls are today: obsessed with boys, and they think dressing in skimpy bikinis in front of guys (older guys, no less) at the beach makes them pretty darn sexy and sophisticated, but cute little Gidget of course humbly struts her stuff in a less attractive red-orange full piece, stumbles as she follows her friends while walking past the guys, and wears a HIDEOUS mask when she goes udnerwater. She, unlike her friends, is only interested in being around the guys because she wants them to teach her how to surf, not because she wants their attention to feel "hot" or because she "doesn't get along with girls". No, she was a smart, classy, womanly girl- and she's considered a tomboy?!? And a very stylish one too, I might add.

Sandra's style is the epitome of classy, clean-cut, modest 50's attire. Flats, A-line skirts, high necklines, sleeveless shirts and dresses, cropped pants, long skirts- and of course, since it's Sandra, bright colors. I love her outfits so much, the dresses especially, naturally. While of course the 50's were full of things like racism, sexism, pin-up girls (considered classy by today's low standards), and actors just as depressed, drugged-up and promiscuous as today's (let's face it, they just knew how to hide it better!), but the fashion was pretty good. I'm not talking Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe's very tight, very low-cut dresses (ew), I mean the school/fair outfits you see Sandy and the Pink Ladies wearing in Grease (ironic, since they have a whole song about making fun of modesty and virgins with Sandra's name in it), or housewifes from back then, with the styles mentioned above. So elegant but simple! And not to mention, they took their hair seriously back then. They only had the best hairstyles and colors. Most wore a lot of makeup too (but had better makeup artists than today too), but Sandra was a natural beauty, and she liked to keep her style fun, simply, and colorful- after all, she was just a kid.

Sandra liked her eyes outlined a bit darkly with bright lips. Use a dark brown eyebrow pencil to define your brows, then use a blue eye pencil to line both lids (narrow at the inside corner, wider at the outer ones), with a deep blue shadow washed over her lid, and black mascara. Since Sandra had warm coloring, she could pull off orange lipstick. If you can't due to having cool coloring (being a Summer or Winter, like me), use a rosy pink shade for Summers and a not-too-dark shade of red for Winters. Being colorful is the key, not necessarily what color you use. For hair, you needn't dye your hair a beautiful shade of golden blonde, but simply keep it loose and tousled, by either letting "the wind comb it" (as Dee herself said) or trying it with your blow dryer. If you have medium/short hair, do not part it. If it's as long as Sandra's in the first photo above, make a deep side part. (Note that in that photo, that is not always how Sandra looked. That was a young, 'fancy' pic of her. As she got older she kept it shorter and more tousled but the makeup stayed the same).

If still in doubt, try watching some of her movies or Beyond the Sea- Kate Bosworth plays her!

Farmer's Daughter Chic

Ever see the Rogers and Hammerstein musical of the 50's, State Fair? I tried watching it today. It's no Sound of Music, so it was a bit hard to get into, although the technicolor was of course great to look at. Most of the songs were just OK, but what really caught my eye was the dresses. I am a self-proclaimed dress freak, especially for old-fashioned ones such as from the 1950's. These had some great ones! Margy Frake, Jeanne Crain's role, had so many different ones, and they were all good. Modest, feminine, and almost 'edgy' for the day, with the strong (but soft) shoulders, unsually bright colors, and even fake fruit on one, but all around a bit peasant-y, Margy being a farm girl... and the other cast had good ones too. All the characters had pretty, neat hair that was popular back then when nice hair meant something and both genders made an effort to have theirs look good.

Not sure I like the bust part, but I love puffy, sheer sleeves.

The date dress. I love the vest part... the black draws attention to her slim waist and adds some elegance to her white peasant dress.

Looks almost like a Mexican-style peasant dress, and very cute and dollish.

She rather looks like Vivien Leigh too! Probably my favorite.

Does she wear this at Christmas too? I would!

Very sweet and girly. I love flowers embroided on, and you can almost never go wrong with pink. She has beautiful hair too.

It doesn't go with her brilliantly colored hair, but icy blue is gorgeous and one of my favorite colors.

So, don't be afraid to look country sometimes, for a state fair, date, picnic, school, even a party. Margy met her true love in these- and without dressing like a hooker or someone desperate for attention too (can we say Taylor Momsen? Ugh). The dresses all reflect the innocence of the women and the time period (not that the 50s were perfect, but still), the sweet simplicity of that decade, and the true femininity today's females so painfully lack often enough.