Celebrity fashion icon: Marianne Faithfull

See pictures of handbag.com's celebrity fashion icon of the month Marianne Faithfull

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Like a rolling stone

Fashion icon,Marianne Faithfull,Mick Jagger Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull

The ultimate rock chick, who wore feather boas, leather jackets and heart-shaped sunglasses when most girls where still in tailored suits and stockings: over the next few frames, handbag.com celebrates the freewheelin\' style of celebrity fashion icon Marianne Faithfull. Danielle Radojcin

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Picture: Mick Jagger and then-girlfriend Marianne Faithfull attract a few stares at the airport in 1969

Spot the style icon

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Marianne Faithfull, photographed in 1964 in her pre-rock chick days, plays ingenue in a structured shift dress over a paisley blouse.

Leather & fur

Fashion icon,Marianne Faithfull Marianne Faithfull

In 1967, Marianne acted in the iconic film Girl On A Motorcycle, for which she famously donned head-to-toe black leather.

Queen\'s of rock \'n\' roll

Fashion icon,Marianne Faithfull,Anita Pallenberg Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg

As girlfriends of the band, Marianne and pal Anita Pallenberg were rock \'n\' roll royalty, and dressed accordingly.

(Low-slung belts, feather boa and knee-high boots - hello, Kate Moss.)

Guilty? Moi?

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She looks like butter wouldn\'t melt in her mouth, but in 1967 Marianne was in fact outside the law courts in London after appealing against the sentence passed on herself and boyfriend Mick Jagger for drug possession.

Classy lady

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Marianne and husband John Dunbar snapped at a London airport in 1965. Marianne is still in her prim suit and heels mode.

Fashion icon,Marianne Faithfull Marianne Faithfull

Another day in court for Marianne Faithfull in 1967, after boyfriend Mick Jagger and fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards were sentenced with drug possession. Her ruffle shirt and hear-shaped shades wouldn\'t look out of place in any fashionable wardrobe today.

Teenage kicks

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A very pretty teen: Marianne Faithfull photographed in London in 1960.

Fashion icon,Marianne Faithfull,Mick Jagger Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger

Another court appearance, another chance to make a style statement: Marianne and Mick on their way to appear before magistrates on charges of drug possession, she in a woollen cape white tights and Mary Janes.

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Wearing a maribou scarf - another Autumn/Winter 08 wardrobe must - Marianne Faithfull waits at Heathrow airport in 1967, en route to an Italian music festival.

I\'m with the band

Fashion icon,Marianne Faithfull,Mick Jagger Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull Marianne with boyfriend Mick Jagger at the airport in 1967. She wears a cute floral mini dress, long boots and a satchel, this season\'s must-have handbag shape.

Court in the act

Fashion icon,Marianne Faithfull Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrive at Marlborough Street magistrate\'s court in London, May 1969, the day after drug squad detectives arrested them for cannabis possession at their home in Chelsea. She wears a pair of tinted glasses (reminsicent of Charles Anatastase\'s shapes today), and a zip-up jacket with snakeskin panels.

Cat that got the cream

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1970, and Marianne Faithfull has become a fan of mannish tailoring.

Look of love

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Marianne Faithfull in 1967. Her heart-shaped sunglasses come five years after Stanley Kubrick\'s iconic Lolita poster.

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