Forever Young
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Youth is a fanciful muse to which Hollywood, the marketplace, and the media, insist on holding us hostage. What we need is a muse we can admire for more than just a cute smile, cleavage, and a reality TV gig.
For our first Fashion Flash of 2010, we've put together a list of women worth watching for inspiration on fashion, style, wisdom, and accomplishment in the coming year. Embrace your muses, but be your own sweet and beautiful self!
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Meryl Streep
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Even with one of the most dazzling resumes in Hollywood, she comes off as very un-diva. Real body, real wrinkles, real talent, real private. In our celebrity obsessed culture, she remains elusive, but seemingly approachable.
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Ellen DeGeneres
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Clean and consistent style, riotous always-on-target sense of humor, mega-personality. Who needs accessories???
"... If my body were a car, I'd be thinking about trading it in around now. I would like to upgrade. I would be actually on the lot somewhere and some guy with a loud sports jacket would be sizing me up...kinda lookin' around goin--maybe kickin my knees. Looking behind me going: "That looks a little bashed in back there...Yeah. You mind if I check under the hood?" Ellen Degeneres
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Helen Mirren
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She's an unapologetic anti-monarchist who admits that her physical resemblance to Queen Elizabeth in the movie, The Queen, threw her for a loop.
"Sadly, I used very little makeup. I didn't spend hours in the makeup chair with all kinds of magical things being added to my face. It had more to do with the set of the face really. The set of the head, the set of the mouth." Helen Mirren
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God Save The Queen
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Royal titles confer wealth, palaces, and access to the family jewels, but style is up to the individual.
If her clothing wasn't custom made, she'd have to buy it on Ebay. Look beyond her quaintly retro wardrobe and admire her staying power.
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Lauren Hutton
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"Back in 1992, a photographer wanted to shoot in Florida, but because he
never shot people over 25 and I was 47, I knew that I had to come up
with a good photo-op. Gators have weak muscles for opening their
mouths. So the trick is to keep his mouth shut! I wrestled this 9ft.,
370lbs gator for 45 minutes. My shrink says this is how I should handle
men!"
Lauren Hutton
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Diane Sawyer
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Where does an 800 pound gorilla sit? At any news desk she chooses!
Her savvy sexy style is ageless, but what we
really love is the magnificent career she built laying the foundation at a time
when the thought of a woman anchoring a major news desk seemed as far-out as the
Starship Enterprise. Still in her prime(time).
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Michelle Obama
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Broad shoulders, beautiful arms, bodacious hips, and fearless style; Obama confidently mixes high fashion with mass market in a way that mostly works. We appreciate her occasional fashion faux pas, and love that she isn't opposed to wearing things more than once.
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Carla Bruni
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Italian heiress, supermodel, pop singer, rock star arm candy (Jagger, Clapton, et al); and now Voila! first lady of France.
The new Ms. Sarkozy navigates her newest role with grace, style, and flat shoes. Even if her husband's outsized personality makes him seem much taller than he is.
Viva La France!
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Kim Cattrell
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"I'm 54 and I think I look my age. I have a big crease between my eyebrows and I use Botox to get rid of that, but I don't wnat to be 20 anymore, or even 30, or 40."
Kim Cattrell
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Body Beautiful
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An image by Joan Myers from her exhibition, Women of a Certain Age.
"... I find myself less and less comfortable with the way American culture defines and portrays older women. I reject these cultural limitations for my own aging. I use my camera to explore possibilities, the messages and histories expressed in other women's bodies. I wish less to define than to reveal."-Joan Myers
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