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1. When your senior prom date starts dating your sister, chances are good you are going to rag on her Manolo Blahniks in public (they were so last season) and plaster her relationship saga in your Big Apple column. Bonus if your fashionable mental dribble becomes an equally fashionable HBO series. Which author would make Mr. Big proud?
2. From her humble origins as the daughter of snowmobile racers, my next fashion figure burned rubber all the way up to NASCAR. With her stunning good looks, she's rocked the pages of fashion magazines and print advertisements. She managed to raise a few fashionable eyebrows of the NASCAR elite when she became the GoDaddy.com girl. Which fashionista made racing stripes look good?
3. Nazis are a drag, but this icon managed to stay one chasse ahead during WWII. After the war, she dedicated herself to modeling and ballet, the latter of which shaped her fashionable physique (but not her funny face). Her transition to acting putting her natural, sophisticated style on the international best dressed list. She won her first Oscar in an early acting attempt, playing a princess on holiday in Rome.
4. Towering over your playmates isn't fun when you are a 5'10" ten-year-old. But high fashion loves you, where this model, creative designer, and entrepreneur made her "phat" mark, earning a modeling contract with Chanel at age 13. With her Japanese, Korean, and African American background, her unique appeal worked many a runway before she settled into family life and designing for Macy's and JustFab. Who is it?
5. What to do when the bank won't cash a foreign check written by your South African mother? Cause a scene that catches the attention of a Hollywood agent? Good thing he paid attention, because this former ballerina and model has monster talent, with an Oscar and several nominations to her credit. Despite her Oscar successes, the world of high fashion still beckons. Which model/actress is the face of Dior?
6. Despite not caring about an education, this literary icon "typed on a cash register" turning herself into a fashionable writer. Her early years saw her chasing fame (and "dolls") around Hollywood. Despite her critics, she became a best-selling novelist known for characters based on real life celebrities. Whose second novel became a Hollywood movie smash featuring actresses, Sharon Tate, Patty Duke, and Barbara Parkins?
7. Who would have thought a stick-thin girl from the suburbs of London would become one of the world's first supermodels? This fashion icon did just that. Her androgynous look was the norm for fashion models for decades until the 1980's brought the curvy glamazons to popularity. Despite her appeal, her modeling career was fairly short as she moved on to acting and music. Which famous fashion model was known as the "Face of '66"?
8. It's hard to be an unassuming child to a construction worker who happens to also be an Olympic gold medalist. The spotlight is bound to follow, especially when you grow into a great beauty and talented actress. This fashion icon added an Oscar to her jewelry collection before she took up more mundane things like tiaras, issue, and royal weddings. Whose royal wedding sparked a bridal fashion craze that is still influential even today?
9. Some may like it hot, but this glamour icon needed a little work done. Reshaped her hairline, her nose, her teeth, and topped it all off with a bottle of peroxide and BOOM, just like show business! She lived a short, troubled life, was the very first Playmate, and turned her dumb blonde persona on at will. Which actress has the honor of being the fashion icon legions of starlets have emulated since her first sashay into the public eye?
10. The winter of our discontent has nothing on this legendary fasionista. The daughter of a magazine editor, this icon learned her trade from the time she could walk. By 15, she was working in Harrods and learning what appealed to her fashion sense. This education and her magazine genes would carry over to her future control of American Vogue. Which magazine icon controls the September edition come hell or high waterboots?
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