Gucci's collection may be all about folkish luxe this season, but Janis Joplin (1943-1970) got there first. Her look epitomised the legendary Haight-Ashbury scene in San Francisco, of which she was a part, in the early ‘60s, and Woodstock festival, where she performed in 1969. Invariably dripping with enough jewellery and baubles - fur hats, crushed velvet bell bottoms, beads, bejewelled and sequinned jackets and blouses, bangles jangling on her arms and rings on every finger - to make a magpie jealous, her passion for her appearance matched her flamboyant onstage persona ("Janis Joplin in a box", is what she called it) and whiskey-soaked voice. This was about as far from early '60s conservative female Western dressing as it was possible to get - and of course, very, very rock'n'roll.  Handbag examines the style of this celebrity fashion icon. Danielle Radojcin

Above "I want to get something out of gold lamé. Very simple but real showbiz looking. I want audiences to look at me as a real performer." Janis Joplin, photographed circa 1969. Tie-dye, beads and flares: it's not hard to see why she's one of Kate Moss's fashion inspirations.

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