Geek Chic founder Gemma Aldcroft guestblogs for GBS
Our guest blogger for this week is Gemma Aldcroft of Geek Chic...
GOSH, I do feel honoured to be asked to be a guest writer for this blog. First of all to be referred to as a girl (I'm not going to reveal my age, of course, but by no stretch of the imagination could I be regarded as a 'girl'!) but also to be considered stylish. How flattering!
Well, I've been reading previous GBS pages and I must confess to feeling a little embarrassed at my ignorance on such matters as new and exciting fashion designers, cool TV shows and eyebrow shape trends. Don't get me wrong, I like to dress well and attempt to keep up with the latest fashions (although I thought trying to carry off wet look black leggings would be a bridge too far) but the geek in me likes to think that there's more to style than clothing and accessories.
Attitude, sex appeal, breaking the mould or just a certain 'je ne sais quoi' are all things that I bore in mind when I put together this list of 10 of my favourite stylish ladies (although I could have listed many, many more). If I could take a leaf out of all of their books I'd be on to a winner!
1. Katharine Hepburn - she could wear men's tailoring and still look all woman. And that famous swimming pool scene in The Philadelphia Story is the epitome of stylishness.
2. Lauren Bacall - unadulterated sexiness and attitude rolled into one. During screen tests for To Have and Have Not she pressed her chin to her chest to stop the quivering caused by her nerves, tilted her eyes up towards the camera and The Look which was to become her trademark was born...
3. Sophia Loren - to any woman with curves she is an absolute heroine.
4. Princess Diana - I'm sorry but Sophie Rhys-Jones will never come close, poor girl.
5. Josephine Baker - also known as the Black Pearl, Baker became a muse to Dior and her favourite on-stage accessory was a pet cheetah wearing a diamond collar.
6. Audrey Hepburn - no one has ever done the "LBD and pearls" look with such panache.
7. Dita Von Teese - burlesque brilliance.
8. Marie-Antoinette - 18th century style icon. She once decorated the walls of a ballroom with diamonds.
9. Queen Cleopatra - ok, so maybe she wasn't as gorgeous as Elizabeth Taylor in reality but any woman who could pull a Roman Emperor and one of history's greatest generals must have had style!
10. Lady Godiva - rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband to abolish the taxes crippling the townspeople. You go girl!
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