Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Fiction. Fashion. Icon.

Real life fashion inspirations are a dime a dozen, but its very rare to find a fictional character who eats, sleeps and breathes fashion, or at least has a good sense of fashion that they constantly express. This is a list of my fiction fashion icons who vary from a front desk bully we hate to love to prostitutes, boy billionaires and beyond.

Fran Fine had one spicy sense of fashion and I adore her. Her voice, her hair, her quintessential 90's mode look is all on point and she has been an icon of mine since I was a little boy. She was not the one to conform to the yuppy preppy trends of the Upper East Side. Proudly displaying her Queens influence in fashion one can be sure to say that, she had style, she had flair...That's how she became the Nanny.



This trio all definitely had their own unique sense of style, but my favorite out of the bunch was Amanda Taner from ABC's hit show Ugly Betty. She was a sassy dresser and had the attitude to go with it as she bullied Betty Suarez around the offices of Mode Magazine. Sometimes I think if I were a girl, my daily wardrobe would be very similar to Amanda's. After all I do own the gloves that she is wearing in this photo and didn't even know the fashion diva had a pair until this episode aired. I was in shock that she was wearing the gloves I owned, but hey, great fashion minds think alike I guess. 



This man does it best when it comes to badasses who have an eye for taste. Suave attitudes and good looks are always a given in any James Bond character but this one takes the cake. Daniel Craig's Bond is dashing and sophisticated and makes every girl (and some boys) want to be the ultimate Bond Girl. Bond's impeccable taste for fitted tuxes and fast cars makes me swoon and makes me want to have such high style and high class when I'm that age.



Spotted: Charles Bass, better known as Chuck Bass from the CW's knockout Gossip Girl the boy with the billion dollar style. He was a debonair and dressed the part at all expenses. New York's boy billionaire did not let a fashion moment slip by and no matter the occasion was always dressed to the nines. 



From one New Yorker to the next this list just keeps getting more fabulous by the scroll. The ultimate fiction fashion icon for many fashionistas around the world is Holly Golightly of Breakfast At Tiffany's. She has revolutionized the little black dress and has made it an essential for nearly every girl's wardrobe. Although she is mostly known for her little black dress and dripping pearls in the film, an interpretation of Truman Capote's paperback, I find her most glamorous outfit, perhaps, the most simplest. After a night out competing with Manhattan's endless supply of professional hustlers she wakes up to a buzz at her door in the best outfit of them all. Her sleep mask and tassel ear plugs with a white cotton pressed night top to me is bedtime opulence, and I'd love to think that I look just as extravagant when I wake up in the morning every day. 


This dynamic fashion duo are label whores at the utmost dahling sweetie, sweetie dahling. Edina and Patsy from AbFab will never grow out of their comedic petulant behavior or alcohol driven carelessness. They are fine, fresh and fierce whether in boho chic attire or designer labeled athletic wear. They have a groovy sense of style that goes with their groovy lifestyle of jet-setting, fashion shows and everything in between. Their outlandish attitude and lavish lifestyles makes these two Absolutely Fabulous.      



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