Fashions fade. Style is eternal, Yves Saint Laurent once famously declared.
He was right.
From the unapologetically fabulous Joan Collins who, would you believe, is 80 to Yoko Ono, who never met a quirky accessory she didnt like, ELLE celebrates the women proving every day that true glamour is timeless.
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'Diamonds never leave you. Men do!' Dame Shirley of Bassey, pictured here at the Vanity Fair Oscars party 2013 - aged 76, would you believe - has her priorities right.
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Words fail us. From her epically-coiffed blond curls to her teeteringly high heels, country legend Dolly Parton is homedown glamour personified. AND WE LOVE HER FOR IT.
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‘Don't believe any woman who says she doesn't like a compliment. I love it if I'm walking through a store or I'm in a restaurant and someone says I look great. It lifts your spirits.’ Amen, Joan Collins. Amen.
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Barbara Streisand: the style icon of style icons. 'She is the epitome of chic,' Victoria Beckham told ELLE recently. Her label of choice? Donna Karan.
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In the last ten years, Dame Judi Dench's career has gone stellar, meaning she's perfected the art of red carpet dressing later, rather than earlier, in life. We learned everything we know about dress coats from her.
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Would you believe that textile designer, businesswoman and latterly Street Style blog royalty Iris Apfel was born in 1921? She counts designers including Ralph Rucci and Duro Olowu among her friends, and has even seen an exhibition dedicated to her style bow at the New York Met. Talk about a power dresser.
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Now in her mid-70s, a clingy cut remains no biggie for fitness guru Jane Fonda. During this year's Cannes Film Festival, her capsule wardrobe of Atelier Versace and Badgley Mischka has had style blogs screaming Is Jane Fonda The Hottest Person At Cannes? In a word: yes.
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So impressive is Joan Rivers' style cred that she is literally in the Fashion Police. And let's just say, we would not like to get stopped by her.
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HRH Elizabeth II's style is simply legendary. It's all in the details: from gloves to hats to low-heeled courts, she never puts a sartorial step wrong.
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Sophia Loren is synonymous with sex appeal - then, now, always.
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We always equate this legendary singer-turned-TV presenter's style with her personality: lots of sparkle, lots of colour.
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As muse to the late Yves Saint Laurent, Catherine Deneuve was never going to fail at fashion. Still a front row regular, the actress claims style is in her blood, having declared that 'the plot of the fashion world will always be French.'
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To many Dame Vivienne Westwood is fashion. Now 72, she still regularly casts herself in her own ad campaigns.
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The wardrobe department on the set of Mary Poppins served Julie Andrews well, giving her a penchant for tailoring that's seen her remain classically chic ever since.
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Once a supermodel, always a supermodel. Verushka still gets all the best fashion party invitations - and, apparently, the pick of the best rails, too.
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Carmen Dell'Orefice: amazing hat-wearer, consummate catwalker, Octogenarian.
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Proving that looking good later in life has nothing to do with toning it down, ladies and gentleman, we give you Yoko Ono.
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Browns boutique founder Joan Burstein can lay claim to introducing legendary designers such as Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Giorgio Armani to the UK, so it's little wonder she remains one of our go-to fashion inspirations at the age of 86.