Style Icons

As I have been sick for WEEKS now I´ve had a lot of time sitting at home. Clearly I used it well by rewatching Sex and the City and American Horror Story and reading way too many Blogposts on Thought Catalog. But I´ve also gotten back into reading. At the moment I´m loving books about style and I really enjoyed Alexa Chungs "It" in which she lists her style icons. So I thought I´d try and do the same:


Number one has got to be Audrey Hepburn. If I had to choose the most elegant and beautiful woman that ever walked this earth it would be her. From writing my school dissertation about her to having a giant picture of her hanging in my room for 10 years she has influenced me in many ways. My favourite Audrey-film is of course "Breakfast at Tiffanys" and pretty much everything she wears in that film looks effortlessly cool. From crazy hats to pigtails, somehow she makes it work. I especially love that white oversized shirt Holly Golightly chills in combined with her crazy sleeping mask and Brigit Bardot hair. I definitely don´t look that stylish on a hungover morning in bed. When I first watched this movie I had never seen anyone so chic and cool and ever since then Audrey Hepburn has been my biggest role model. I could go on about the revolutionary portrayal of women and how Holly Golightly was basically a promiscuous party girl in the 60s, but let´s stick to style.

As a teenager who was obsessed with everything British, obviously I watched Skins. I know I am not alone in this, but I always loved Effy Stonem´s style and makeup in the series. I have lost count of all the times I tried recreating her famous eye look (if you have no clue what I´m talking about, google it. you´ll know the one) and failed miserably. Because I am not Kaya Scodelario and somehow I can´t get my eyes to look like that. Also I couldn´t pull of fishnet stockings or shirt-length dresses like her, but her more grungy looks definitely made their way into my wardrobe on some level. Messy hair and slightly smudged black eyeliner are still a look I believe in when it comes to partying.

Speaking of messy hair- when I was about 15 I would try to figure out my style by google searching pictures of Sienna Miller, who always looks a little undone and yet amazing. I also really liked Rachel Bilsons laid-back style so these were the celebrities I looked up to when it came to picking my outfits in the morning. For a long time I had a poster of all my favourite looks inside my closet for daily inspiration.

When it comes to elegance noone does it quite like Leighton Meester playing Blair in Gossip Girl. I learned a lot about fashion and brands from those books and the TV show. I would like to point out that she basically dressed herself in nothing but A-list designer outfits and expensive lingerie, yet she even looked flawless in that pink "I love NY" jumper that one time. If I ever need fashion inspiration on how to look perfect, I look to her.

The final person that never fails to inspire me is my mum. She hates the cut-out jeans and dirty boots I live in while she is always wearing heels and some costume I´m not cool enough to pull off. And while she inspires me to dress up a bit more (and look less like a homeless man that stacked all of his jewellery around his neck) as a kid I always thought my mum was the most beautiful woman with pinned up hair, some oversized Shirt and washed out skinny jeans. And I still do.