This is when I fell in love with Drew Barrymore.
It was the 90s. I was a teenager, she was 4 or 5 years older than me and the rock n roll Princess of grunge glamour. With visible roots, risque outfits, bright red lips and a hell of an attitude. I wanted to *be* her. Occasionally people used to tell me I looked like her. I didn’t, I just had bleached blonde hair and a similar face shape, but it made me happy anyway.
As she’s grown up, her style has grown up too, but she still retains that playful attitude that made me love her 15 years ago.
Just recently her red carpet style has been channeling every decade from the 20s through to the 80s. But she always looks like she’s just having the best fun playing dress up.
I never get the feeling Drew Barrymore is aiming for a best dressed list. She doesn’t care about “fashion forward”, “classic elegance” or “retro glamour”. She almost looks like she’s playing fancy dress, that she picked on a “look” and then just went for it.
Off the red carpet is a different matter. That’s where we see grunge Drew, and the 90s grungey teenager with bleach blonde hair and the T Shirt with the huge daisy that still lives in my head loves that too.
Stuff age appropriate dressing, Drew Barrymore is the fashion rebel that says it’s OK to wear pink heart shaped sunglasses at 35. It’s OK to occasionally still just wear the first thing that you find on the floor when you wake up, and it’s definitely OK to enjoy dressing up.
With Drew Barrymore as a style icon I can have a wardrobe full of comfy jeans that I won’t get rid of, channel Audrey Hepburn one day and Debbie Harry the next, dye my hair crazy colours and wear killer sunglasses.
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9 responses to “Retro Chick Style Icon – Drew Barrymore”
Drew is an incredible role model– both fashion wise, and it seems, in every other aspect. From battling her addictions, to being a force to reckon with in the film industry, to coming out to have a happy life where she loves life… she’s got it going on!
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I adore Drew!! She’s such a great role model…being a powerful woman in hollywood is so nice to see! Not to mention she’s gorgeous and has the best fashion sense. I guess I’m saying…can I be her? 🙂
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Love her!
Her style is carefree and definitely not too serious.
Success stories are so rare in the spotlight, it is refreshing to see her come out of her childhood resilient and classy.
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yup. me too in the 90s, she was my hero. I still have my Drew magazing tear outs. 😉
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Another Drew fan here, she always seem as if she is having fun with life and that includes her clothes. She certainly is a force to be reckoned with in the acting world. Glad she is back full on now.
Not too mention she has taken up the role as a film director as well. I just love Whip It and Drews crazy quirky character in it!
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I think Drew Barrymore is an awesome Style Icon to have! She knows how to have fun with her wardobe, but know when to clean it up when she has to. Plus, she’s super taleneted and a sweetheart! She’s the whole package!
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ms. barrymore seems really down-to-earth and i love that her style isn’t pretentious. great post!
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I love Drew Barrymore! And you are right, she just doesn’t do one look, she seems to take every day as it comes and just dress in whatever suits her mood and occassion the most. Some women dress for the image, she is definitely not one of them!
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