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Not since the early '80s has outrageous clubwear been so à la mode, which is why Handbag has chosen Grace Jones as its celebrity fashion icon this month. Now in her sixties, during the '80s the Jamaican-born singer, model and muse was as famous for her provocative, gender-bending get-ups as she was for her tunes Slave To The Rhythm and Pull Up To The Bumper (and her style today hasn't let up: her most recent round of gigs saw her wearing a wild array of headpieces by milliner Philip Treacy.)

Her collaborative efforts with Andy Warhol (to whom she was a muse), Keith Haring (who painted her body in tribal patterns for a nightclub performance in 1985) and later with then-partner Jean-Paul Goude (which resulted in the iconic covers for Nightclubbing and Slave To The Rhythm) took body art to a whole new level. This season, her leggy '80s silhouette of broad, high-definition shoulders and spiky heels (hood and flat-top optional) with flashes of acidic colours was adopted by the likes of Marc Jacobs,  Balmain and Dolce & Gabbana.

Here, handbag.com celebrates some of the boundary-pushing looks that made her a star.

Picture: Grace Jones performing onstage in the late '70s in a copper metallic catsuit and furs

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