Tomboy Style: July 2010

ICON | Audrey Hepburn

photos via Everyday I Show

"I know I have more sex appeal on the tip of my nose than many women in their entire bodies. It doesn't stand out a mile, but it's there."—Audrey Hepburn

ICON | Jodie Foster

unknown photo credit, LIFE 1984

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from." —Jodie Foster

photo of Mary Badham and Gregory Peck via Everyday I Show

"She was [To Kill a Mockingbird's] Scout Finch, after all, and in many ways, Scout was her. 'I grew up in a houseful of boys and was very much a tomboy growing up' in Birmingham, Ala., the 57-year-old explained with a twang." —Gary Rotstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

CONTEMPORARY | Garance Doré

photo by Scott Schuman

"I love to shop in my boyfriend's wardrobe." —Garance Doré

ICON | Kristy McNichol

photos by LIFE, 1983

"Miss McNichol has carved out a different image from these other girls. On her hit show Family, she played a shrewd, down-to-earth tomboy, a wise-beyond-her-years but still wholesome all-American girl. And that's basically the same character she embodies in her movies. She has none of the nymphetlike sex appeal of Jodie Foster or Brooke Shields; Kristy McNichol is the girl next door, the female cousin to Huck Finn." —Stephen Farber, The New York Times, 1981

ICON | Lee Radziwill

photo by Harry Benson, 1982

"My mother was very strict, and very old-fashioned, as ladies of her generation were. She would say things to Jackie and me like, 'You girls had better learn to play cards or you are going to grow up to be lonely old maids.' Radziwill laughs." —William Norwich, in an excerpt from Style; A New Balance, The New York Times.

ICON | Daryl Hannah

photos by LIFE 1991 and People 1993

"They rode their bikes. They went sailing at Martha's Vineyard, boating at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia and skiing at Telluride, Colorado. Always eager to test his physical prowess and stamina, John had finally met his match. A tomboy's tomboy, Daryl had little difficulty keeping up with John." —Clemens David Heymann from an excerpt of American legacy: the story of John & Caroline Kennedy

ICON | Linda McCartney

photo via f.y.paulandlinda

"When we went for a drive, Linda always wanted to get lost. I had an in-built panic about being lost. I always want to know where London is. I don’t want to get to, say, Staines and not know my way back. We would go down to the most obscure places, have a great time, find a little tearoom or a riverbank. She taught me little things like that, to relax and be down to earth. It was very valuable to me then, a great part of the healing process after the Beatles broke up. Linda was a very natural woman. She loved the fresh air and the freedom and the privacy of the countryside. She was just a great person to hang out with: very funny, very smart and very talented."—Paul McCartney

NOISE | Emily Haines

photo credit unknown

"Years before this incarnation of Metric, I was very much in the school of indie rock asexuality. The more like a guy you were, the more a real musician you were. But now, the direction I've taken it in terms of performance is acknowledging the part of me that is a girl, which probably doesn't sound good in print." —Emily Haines

ICON | Bianca Jagger

photos via Getty, Dropping Knowledge

"Bianca Jagger gives evidence to US Congressional committees, visits slums in India, documents atrocities in Bosnia, and does not need to warn the new acquaintance that jovial inquiries about riding into Studio 54 on a white horse are not the best of ice-breakers. Her bearing, her gaze, defies you to be so contemptuous as to try to define her by a marriage to a Rolling Stone that ended [over 30] years ago." —Sholto Byrnes, The Independent

CONTEMPORARY | Irina Lazareanu

photos via AltaMira

"Even though she has played muse to Karl Lagerfeld and Nicolas Ghesquière, it's Irina's embrace of her inner rocker that will keep this catwalk queen in the public eye for years to come." —Gregory Gestner, TeenVogue

NOISE | Tegan and Sara

Call it Off by Tegan and Sara

UNIFORM | Built By Wendy

photos from Built By Wendy's Spring 2010 collection

"As a teen growing up in the Midwest during the early eighties, Wendy Mullin started making her own clothes, which involved re-dyeing her dad’s old button-down shirts and crafting long surf shorts with drawstring waists."—Doria Santlofer, New York Magazine

NOISE | Rickie Lee Jones

photo credit unknown

"Katharine Hepburn is a symbol to me of what kind of woman a person can be. She obviously has a lot of heart and a lot of control over her persona and her career."—Rickie Lee Jones

CONTEMPORARY | Dree Hemingway

photos by Stockholm Street Style

"Bold shoulders are a surefire way to get noticed, but for [literary heir] Dree Hemingway, 22, it’s her tough-chic mix of leather pants and fierce shoes that propelled her to the front of the fashion scene."—Evonne Gambrell, Teen Vogue

SCENE | Foxcroft School

photo by Slim Aarons

"Foxcroft girls lead a sheltered but Spartan life—no lipstick, sturdy brown oxfords and unheated sleeping porches. There are no fripperies like weekend proms. There is riding instead." —Peggy Downey, Sports Illustrated 1963

CONTEMPORARY | Kate Lanphear

photo via Citizen Couture

"If you asked me who my style icons were, I’d say I began with old-school heavy metal. I love the androgyny and the glam. In high school I covered my bedroom walls with Axl Rose posters. Appetite for Destruction was out, and I trailed Guns N’ Roses’ tour bus in my Honda Civic (its plates read AXL LVR). I had these amazing, skinny, tight-enough-to- cut-off-your-circulation acid-wash jeans with an inky blue plastic zipper that ran up the seam, purchased at Spencer’s Gifts at the mall. I had begged my mom for them. They were part of a look: slouchy suede boots, oversize suede jacket, outrageous jeans. Breaking the suburbatopian mold by wearing metalhead garb definitely wasn’t something one did to fit in with the cool kids in Fairfax, Virginia." —Kate Lanphear