Foxy lady
80s fashion,Fashion icon,Grace Jones
Grace Jones
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.)
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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.
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Here, handbag.com celebrates some of the boundary-pushing looks that made her a star.
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Picture: Grace Jones performing onstage in the late \'70s in a copper metallic catsuit and furs
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Celebrity fashion icon Debbie Harry
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Celebrity fashion icon Michael Jackson
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Celebrity fashion icon Lauren Hutton
Whip smart
80s fashion,Fashion icon,Grace Jones
Grace Jones
Grace Jones onstage in 1979, wearing a black swimsuit, fishnet stockings and elbow-length leather gloves.
Specs appeal
80s fashion,Fashion icon,Grace Jones
Grace Jones
Grace Jones photographed in 1985, in a chocolate leather jacket, matching hood and fuschia framed sunglasses.
Golden lady
80s fashion,Fashion icon,Grace Jones
Grace Jones
Grace Jones, photographed in 1990 wearing a gold pleated all-in-one by Issey Miyake.
Fan-tastic
80s fashion,Fashion icon,Grace Jones
Grace Jones
Grace Jones, performing onstage circa 1979, wearing a cardboard cut-out zig-zag ensemble in a graphic \'80s palette of red, golden yellow, black and blue.
Tribal odyssey
80s fashion,Fashion icon,Grace Jones
Grace Jones
Grace Jones performing at a New Year\'s Eve concert at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City in 1987, wearing a ballgown decorated by the artist Keith Haring.
Cat\'s whiskers
80s fashion,Fashion icon,Grace Jones
Grace Jones
Grace Jones arrives at her birthday party in 1985, wearing an anthropomorphic bustier top by Thierry Mugler and a cat\'s mask.
Suits her
80s fashion,Fashion icon,Grace Jones
Grace Jones
Grace Jones blurs gender lines at the launch party of her album Black Leatherette in 1980, wearing a mannish grey suit, sunglasses - and a flat top.
Hell for leather
80s fashion,Fashion icon,Grace Jones
Grace Jones
Grace Jones arriving at the GRAMMY Awards after party in 1983, wearing a black leather ensemble with matching hat.
