With yesterday’s Oscar nominations still hot off the press, we’re taking a trip down memory lane to look at some of the world’s most iconic women and how they’ve influenced our fashion tastes over the years…

Grace Kelly won a best actress Oscar in 1954 for The Country Girl, and has since been a Hollywood icon who’s name we associate with elegance and beauty.

Or perhaps the impish Audrey Hepburn is more your style – and who could blame you?! Timeless,

simple, classic – no one did it like Audery. Still one of the most revered fashion icons to this day, designers like Posh Spice often look to her for inspiration. Surely every girl has a little Audrey Hepburn inside her. Do you?

Forever gorgeous, the original sex kitten with the bee stung lips, Bridgette Bardot was a model, actress and singer. Although she was far bigger in her native France than Hollywood, she still registers as a legend who operated by a very simple motto: if you’ve got it, flaunt it.

The word siren was invented for Sophia Loren. She brought to Hollywood a vivaciousness and flair that only a true stylish Italian femme fatale could. Bold, demanding, luscious and curvy, the woman had it all!

One of the greatest film stars of all time, Elizabeth Taylor was probably best known for two things; her role as Cleopatra in the 1963 film and her eight marriages to seven different men. With style likes hers, who can blame the men for forming a queue?!

Moving a little more up to date… Meryl Streep has recently starred in the Iron Lady, so will that make us want to dress like Margaret Thatcher? We all love a strong women so we can expect a deluge of features on ‘how to get the Thatcher look’. Hmm, let’s hope not!

And last but by no means least, we love the graceful and poised Gwyneth Paltrow, a New Yorker who has emerged as an admired style icon and portrait of the cool, modern woman who has it all. Her style is very understated but classic. We may be a little jealous, and Gywneth can seem a little too proud of herself at times – but then again wouldn’t you be with a successful career, beautiful family and rock star husband?!

What do you think? Who would have made your magnificent 7? Tell us over on Facebook and we’ll try to help you recreate the look. xx