Who or what is your favorite Icon?
Daily | November 21st, 2008
“When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.” Erica Jong
Carrie says: The peace sign and the Nike swoosh. Imagine if we all had internal peace and then went out to Just Do It!
Danielle says: Jesus Christ was one cool dude. Cleopatra (mostly for her style; the Asp-suicide doesn’t win over my respect). Sojourner Truth. Blondie. Oprah — all very intense, culture-rocking, iconic women to whom I’d happily genuflect.
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November 21st, 2008 at 12:56 am
Virginia Woolf and Colette.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:09 am
Our Lady of Guadalupe. Quan Yin. St. Bridget. Kali Ma. Frida Kahlo. Federico Garcia Lorca. Shakespeare. The lemniscate. And icon-in-the-making Michelle Obama. I love her too.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:43 am
Nancy Drew—her independence and inquistiveness stick with me.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:42 am
my icons have to be the Target symbol, Oprah, Martha Stewart, and nowObama who has become a brand.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:06 am
The Yin/Yang symbol which represents a requirement for balance in all things would have to top my list, probably followed by the Eagle, which has represented Kings, Emperors, and world changing leaders for thousands of years – and happens to make up part of my last name.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:19 am
what? international airport icons (specificialy schiphol in holland). non-verbal communication done right and beautifully.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:50 am
Huge fan of Buddha. I just love his joyful peacefulness.
Tribal women – there is depth to their being, an earthiness to their presence and wisdom that shines in their eyes and everything aligns in the center.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:06 am
Rock icon David Bowie and choreographer Paul Taylor ~ music and movement.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:17 am
James Taylor, Bono, Obama
November 21st, 2008 at 6:58 am
William Comanda, Leonard Cohen, Virginia Woolf, circles/rings/wheels, hearts spray painted in unexpected places,
November 21st, 2008 at 7:04 am
Dalai Lama, the Ouroboros, the Eye of Providence/All-Seeing Eye, the Ankh and Kermit the Frog.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:24 am
Love the peace-filled lotus flower. Obama rocks my world. (holy hell. did we really?!)
November 21st, 2008 at 7:55 am
The Chrysler building. Does that count?
November 21st, 2008 at 8:39 am
POOP! I had this whole list of strong independant women and it just disappeared so here we go again…
-Oprah – So Inspiring
-Amelia Earhart – So bold and brave
-Queen Elizabeth 1 – So fiesty (plus, she's a redhead and her mother, Anne Bolyn might be related to me, a Borland (Scottish))
-Gloria Steinem – So clear thinking and a pioneer for women
-Martha – So brilliantly determined and talented (though she bugs me sometimes)
-Nora Ephrom – So witty with dialogue
-Anna Quinlan – So clear thinking with a Pulitzer to show for her opinions
-Cate Blanchett – So capable in any role – and that face!
There are more but I may have lost you by now…
November 21st, 2008 at 9:09 am
When I was a kid – pierre elliot trudeau… i loved him… i was a political geek as a kid…wanted to be prime minister one day….
and cher, loved her… her long black hair, skinny body, long nails.. loved her..
And now… i loved oprah, but she's a bit much these days.. OVER THE TOP…
and I love Mame from Auntie Mame… “lifes a banquet and most poor suckers are starving, so LIVE, LIVE, LIVE”!!!”
November 21st, 2008 at 9:19 am
Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, early Woody Allen.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:54 am
Madonna. I'm not so into the Kabbalah-edition Madonna, but back in the day, she repped everything exciting about being a girl to me. Also: Louise Bourgeois, PJ Harvey, Courtney Love, Neil Young, the Chanel logo, Target, Obama. And is Tina Fey an icon yet?
November 21st, 2008 at 10:16 am
I have always been a huge magazine fan, when I was a tween I loved Vogue. The Polo horse was a biggie for me…I saved big time for my first polo top. I friend also gave me a Polo makeup bag that was large I used as a pencil case and loved it. I wanted to be Paulina Poriskova, or Cindy Crawford…one of the Vogue faves of that time. Now it's home magazines and I actually try to avoid clothing and accessories with big icons for the family.
I also used to be known to kiss my Michael Jackson poster goodnight and covet all things tennis…like Tretorn shoes and Wimbeldon clothing.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:24 am
I WANT to revise my last answer, I misunderstood and thought we were answering for when we were kids. Reading over everyone's answer's I was confused about all the enlightenment and Obama references as that's so current and re-read. Sorry, my new answer for now would be…
Oprah, Martha, Nelson Mandela, Maya Angalou, Gabrielle Munter, Georgia O'Keefe…I adore finding treasures at Winners, and I am in love with many of the 60's pottery labels and designers. David Suzuki also is someone I place on a pedestal.
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November 21st, 2008 at 10:29 am
Chateau de Vaux le Vicomte. A superbly sophisticated icon of French 17th century design. Genius architect, genius interior director, and genius landscape gardener all brought together by a visionary charismatic being named Nicolas Fouquet.
The most powerful rebel to walk the streets of Jersusalem: born under a new star and who lived, breathed, and spoke unconditional love.
the marbled layers of Florence, the poetry of Ondaatje, and ravishing haute couture
November 21st, 2008 at 11:32 am
My Style Statement is encouraging me to very humbly beg to offer an alternative perspective of Cleopatra…I am Feminine Sacred and she is one of my sacred females, and also my most treasured hero. Her suicide was at its most basic a noble act of state; she was given the option in the Roman tradition of taking her own life or being paraded in Rome a spoil of war after her defeat by Augustus. She chose the asp because in her own Egyptian tradition, the bite of an asp conferred immortality and was an exclusive right of kings. I think her end has been romanticized a good deal (largely due to Shakespeare and Hollywood), but in the end she was a very shrewd and selfless stateswoman. As the last Pharaoh of Egypt, she had several millennia of a very sacred culture’s pride to protect.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I love Louise Bourgeois too.
“What do I want? To pursue my own journey” she said!
November 21st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
A great quote! If you haven't seen it, I'd also highly recommend the documentary “The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine” on Bourgeois. So fascinating! (I think it's on DVD in 2009…)
November 21st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Coco Chanel, Diane Von Furstenberg – women of true style.
Oprah for her work helping others.
My horoscope symbol for Aries.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I also adored Trudeau. Man of style, man of Metrics. I once considered naming a horse Trudeau.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Okay, so she had a lot riding on the Asp. I can give her the props for that. Thank you, Sacred sister.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:34 pm
I love Audrey Hepburn! I love her classic beauty and timeless style.
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:19 am
Considering that an icon is defined as a sign or representation that stands for its object by virtue of a resemblance or analogy to it, the following are my favorite icons:
Fashion – Jackie Kennedy and Grace Kelly
Politics – The Obamas, Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell
How to BE – Ghandi, Mother Theresa and Diana the Princess of Wales (once she refocused almost totally on serving as a champion for causes) and Mary Harriman (started the Junior League movement by encouraging her friends to band together to do hands-on work to help the disadvantaged people in her own and nearby communities).
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:33 am
My style and presentation icon is Toni Morrison. I have never seen a woman appear as regal as she. Such carriage and bearing. Exquisitely precise use of speech. Behaviorally, my current icons (they change around a lot) are my cats, Kirjava and Titus Flavius Josephus Cattus Cattus, a.k.a. Joe. They are so zen, relaxed and pull unstinting love out of me. Actually they could also be style icons; Kirjava in his basic black is so Chanel and Joe in his yellow stripes so Christian Lacroix.
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
oooh I respond to all of these… Especially the Ouroboros and Kermit!
November 24th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Me too! Nancy Drew is totally inspiring to me.
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November 24th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Nancy Drew for her intelligence and independence and Barbie doll (not for her looks) but also for what I always imagined to be the Barbie doll's intelligence, independence and can do attitude to life. Nancy Drew and Barbie may have been ficticious characters, but they somehow made all things seem possible.
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November 24th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Thanks, now on my *love* to do list!