The definition here might be: someone who leads in fashion circles. Someone might also say it was someone whose wardrobe suggests comfort in styles of yesterday, today, and those up-and-comers of tomorrow.
An icon could also be someone who, while dressing trendily, also was able to be true to a look that celebrated their unique style....
An icon might also be someone whose "look" was simply timeless and unaffected by trends.....
I tend to see a fashion icon as having that inescapable confidence that can make anything they wear....simply desirable.
A fashion icon is someone or in certain cases a product that has its own identity. Fashion icon always stands out in a group through its uniqueness of style. They are always appreciated and accepted by the masses. A fashion icon is made when something completely new comes up or when some healthy amendments are made in the existing style. It should be different and good.
Fashion icons: A new breed of Web-based reality stars.
(An article pasted on the NDTV wall, discussing upon fashion icons)
"Editors and models have become the new fashion icons," said Tommy Ton, the Toronto-based publisher of Jak & Jil, a photo blog that charts stylists' and editors' progress to and from the fashion tents. Their look and quirky glamour have, in fact, inspired a flurry of advertising campaigns, product introductions and fashion lines. "Even celebrities follow their lead," Mr. Ton maintained.
They do, in fact, seem to be wielding an influence that is, ironically, poised to outstrip that of the magazines they serve. "You've got people interested in fashion in Middle America going to these Web sites and studying these people," said Gregory Littley, a social media and branding consultant in New York. They are "using the blogs as a resource with which to educate themselves.
Style-struck viewers might identify Ms. Roitfeld by her form-fitting dresses, dominatrix footwear or the swag of dark hair that