Too Cool For School

Two of my favourite fashion icons: Alison Mosshart (from The Kills and The Deadweather fame) and Julia Restoin-Roitfeld (uber-muse and daughter of ex-French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld) at New York Fashion Week 2011. Both fashion-forerunners stick to certain style components which help make their look instantly recognisable.

For Miss Mosshart this includes: a leopard skin fur coat, a full, in-your-eyes fringe, well-worn gig boots (preferably in gold), shirts in all designs, vintage t-shirts, skinny black jeans, a Bo-Diddley inspired guitar and a cigarette.

To nail Miss Restoin-Roitfeld look, the essentials include: various LBDs, opaque tights, a black blazer, wet-look leggings, luminous skin (Miss Restoin-Roitfeld claims she doesn't wear foundation but swears by rigorous moisturising and YSL's Touche Eclat), free-flowing hair, black eye-liner and some serious heels.

Alison Mosshart and Julia Restoin-Roitfeld at New York Fashion Week.