The girl with the violet eyes: Liz Taylor’s style

Lena | August 21, 2009 | 0 Comments

young Taylor is famously a lover of expensive jewellery, and has often been pictured with her shoulders bare, or showing an expanse of décolletage, in order to show off striking necklaces. In her heyday in the late Fifties, she was often pictured in plain colours – red, black , emerald green or white – to show off her striking colouring. The liking for red clothes has continued throughout the decades, her red tops often being adorned with pearl or diamond necklaces.

Striking red lipstick was another of her favourites throughout the Fifties but Taylor would keep the rest of her make-up simple: strong but perfectly neat eyebrows, and mascara and a touch of eyeliner. In the Sixties, she wore more, blue eyeshadow to show off her eye-colour and pastel pink lipstick.

If you want to copy Liz’s the style from her Fifties heyday, go for the bright jewel-coloured clothes and a signature piece of jewellery. However, it would be wise to give the fur coats and wraps that she has been fond of since the Seventies a miss – even style icons have the odd off day!