I am, now officially, ahead of my time. I always knew it.
This weekend The Guardian has named Joan Hickson’s Miss Marple as a style icon. It’s about time fashion caught up with me. I have always wanted to be Miss Marple. Always.
This is my rallying cry to find interesting fashion icons. There are so many people to be inspired by. Rather than dressing to blend in, or disguise your arms/stomach/hips/bum use your creativity to look like Miss Marple, Patti Smith or Dame Maggie Smith in Death on The Nile. It’s much more fun. In my 30’s, I went to a law firm Christmas do in an outfit I named in my head as “Prom Queen On The Rocks”. It turned it from a work do to play time, with added vodka. Pure fizzy. Try it.
PS the clip below has the added goddess power of Bette Davis and Angela Lansbury. Heaven.