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Afashion icon orfashion leader is a influential person who introduces new styles whichspread throughout fashion culture and become part offashion. They initiate a new style which others may follow. They may be famous personalities such aspolitical leaders,celebrities, orsports personalities. For example, during the 1960s,Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a great fashion icon for American women, and her style became a sign of wealth, power, and distinction; and her famousPink Chanel suit is one of the most referenced and revisited of all of her items of clothing.Twiggy was anIt girl, she was a teenaged model and fashion icon ofSwinging Sixties.[1][2][3][4][5]
"Fashion leaders" are an older term replaced in the second half of the 20th century. Fashion leaders were important people of higher hierarchy and society such asroyalty, aristocrats and their wives and mistresses.[2]
Mary Quant was a famous fashion designer and fashion icon of the1960s who introducedminiskirt, She is also attributed forhotpants, theslip dress, and PVC raincoats.[10][11]
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Power dressing a clothing style that enables women to establish their authority and power in the traditionally male dominated profession such as politics. Margaret Thatcher's style sets the rules on how female politicians should dress, which is a conservative, powerful but simultaneously feminine way.[12]
Similar to theLittle Black Dress that is associated with actressAudrey Hepburn.[3] the following dresses and garments are famous with the names of fashion icons.
"Style is not fashion until it has reached the street"[16]: 286
As the 1980s progressed she gained confidence in her own fashion style and became more and more elegant as she began to understand what suited her. Diana became an icon in fashion history. Diana started to wear clothes by international designers of her own choice, including Versace, Christian Lacroix, Ungaro and Chanel. By the 1990s she was a world leader of fashion in clothes, accessories, make up and hair. She became a trendsetter hounded by the press for her latest look, latest remark or latest romance.
Quant persevered and like the "Tonik" suit and the mini-skirt, the plastic mac became one of the fashion icons of the sixties. This example, in fashionable Mary Quant- style black and white, is labelled "Mist-O-Skye - made in Scotland."