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A fashion icon or fashion leader is an influential person who introduces new styles which spread throughout fashion culture and become part of fashion. They initiate a new style which others may follow. They may be famous personalities such as political leaders, celebrities, or sports 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 famous Pink Chanel suit is one of the most referenced and revisited of all of her items of clothing. Twiggy was an It girl, she was a teenaged model and fashion icon of Swinging 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 as royalty, aristocrats and their wives and mistresses.[2]
Queen Marie Antoinette, during her two-decade consort reign, reshaped by her influence the worlds of 18th-century fashion and design in France and Europe.[6][7]
Nur Jahan, the wife of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, was a fashion enthusiast, and she was having a great interest in clothing items of that time; she set many fashion trends. Nur Jahan was very creative and had a good fashion sense, and she is credited for many textile materials and dresses like nurmahali dress and fine cloths like Panchtoliyabadla (silver-threaded brocade), kinari (silver-threaded lace), etc.[8][9][10]
Margaret Thatcher wearing a typical power dressing outfit
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.[21]
Similar to the Little Black Dress that is associated with actress Audrey Hepburn.[3] the following dresses and garments are famous with the names of fashion icons.
Eugénie hat, the original Eugénie hat was named after Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoleon III, whose fashion choices were publicized in fashion sketches and closely scrutinized across Europe and the United States.[24]
^"Princess Diana 1980s Fashion History and Style Icon". Fashion-Era. 2018-07-24. Retrieved 2021-07-18. 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.
^Marsh, Madeleine (2004). Miller's collecting the 1960s. Internet Archive. London : Miller's. p. 84. ISBN978-1-84000-937-8. 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."
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