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Progressive Style Icons II.

LabelKing

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Seeing as my original Progressive Style Icons was lost in the Great Crash, perhaps a new one is due.
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Kenneth Tynan--an unrepentant smoker who was the first person to say "****" on public television and wore a gold lame suit for his first date with his wife. He also had a taste for S&M. ------
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Ron Mael ------
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Esquerita-the influence on Little Richard ------
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The Old Brian Eno ------
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Bryan Ferry ------
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Salvador Dali ------
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Philippe Jullian-French aesthete, wit, illustrator, biographer, novelist, and critic who killed himself in 1977. ------
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Miles Davis ------
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Mink Deville ------
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James Goldstein-NBA super-fan and ultimate Roberto Cavalli consumer. Each season he buys almost the whole Cavalli collection, wears it for the season and never wears the items again. He lives in a John Lautner home which was featured in "The Big Lebowski" and drives a 1961 Rolls Royce. He recently had John Turrell build an observatory in the home.
 

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. . . what would you say, about Katharine Hepburn?
 

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Katharine Hepburn certainly had her moments and the fact that she didn't care what others thought only adds to the class.

And then there's Marlene Dietrich who had her clothes by Knize. Knize was the only men's tailor she trusted along with a now defunct L.A. tailor.

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Bruce Campbell:
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Cifonelli customer Omar Sharif:
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King Farouk had an oddly organized style. It bowed to his regal status, without excluding Farouk from the masses.
 

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Gilles de Rais:
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Lord Lucan:
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Johnny Depp, for better or for worse:
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2Pac, also for better or more likely, worse
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The Contessa Casati would be another example. Heiress to vast textile fortune, the Contessa ended up impoverished, digging out of trashcans for food, and terrified of money.
 

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A more direct Casati icon would be the Marchesa Casati:

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She also spent all her money and subsequently went about with tattered veils and furs.

Also Nancy Cunard, heiress to the Cunard shipping fortune:

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Perhaps Helmut Berger:

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Label King, are the Contessa Casati (portrayed onstage by Vivien Leigh,) and the Marchesa Casati, different people? I thought perhaps they were one and the same. Are we both talking about the woman who strolled naked with leopards, in the midnight moonlight of Venice? The one who wore live snakes, for jewelry?
 

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Originally Posted by Fuuma
I see you have a thing for stylish murderers....
What do you mean?

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