Here’s one of our favorite posts from the Bargain Queen archives for your enjoyment over the holidays.

So far, we’ve seen that neither the fashion editors who push new trends nor the fashion designers that create them actually follow fashion themselves.

Today I’ll show you that the fashion icons so adored by industry insiders also don’t follow fashion trends. They wear their signature look consistently for years, regardless of fashion’s dictates.

I’ve picked my own personal favourite fashion icon for the sake of illustrating my point, but look at almost any fashion icon and you’ll see a distinctive personal style that evolves subtly over their life, but rarely changes dramatically.

Continue reading: Audrey Hepburn didn’t follow fashion