To counter the exclusionist Kings of Cool thread, let's hear it for the ladies - starting with the weird and wonderful Aubrey Plaza.
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Queens of Cool
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To counter the exclusionist Kings of Cool thread, let's hear it for the ladies - starting with the weird and wonderful Aubrey Plaza.
Su Tissue
Vera Tschechowa
Leonor Fini, the forgotten bohemian Queen of the Paris art world.
Peggy Moffitt arriving at Southampton, England, on the Queen Elizabeth, October 1965.
Rose McDowall
Astrud Gilberto (29 March 1940 – 5 June 2023)
Francesca from "Mad Monster Party?" (1967), voiced by Gale Garnett
Lula is in trouble
https://linktr.ee/Lulaisintrouble
Jennifer Herrema
Sarah Cracknell
Emma Watson
Nina Hagen
Mercedes Helnwein
Another of those 'how has she not been put on this thread yet' ladies:
How did I forget the wonderful Katie Puckrik. The best combination - cute with a sharp wit. I remember vividly seeing her on the 90s late night 'yoof' programme, The Word. She was doing an outside broadcast in the dark, doing a piece to camera while running along an unsuspecting family's front path that the show was about to surprise, when she tripped on some camera cables, went arse over tit, did a perfect roll, bounded back up again and said 'I do my own stunts too!'. At that moment I fell a little bit in love. Thirty years on, she still looks great.
Patricia Laffan in Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
Hedy Lamarr: actress, inventor, wartime code maker
Pamela Rooke (also known as Jordan and Jordan Mooney,) #UK model, actress & original #PUNK icon noted for her work with Vivienne Westwood & the Sex boutique in #KingsRoad#London in the mid-1970s, and for attending many of the early Sex Pistols performances as well as original manager of Adam Ant when known as #AdamAndTheAnts - later devoting her career as a veterinary nurse. Jordan left has left us, aged 66.
Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich
Peter Anderson Photos
Irish McCalla (1928-2002) circa 1955 photog_unknown
Cyd Charisse
8 March 1921 ~ 17 June 2008
Virginia Grey
Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette, on her motor-scooter in 1916.
She's traveling to work at offices in London where she was a supervisor. Photo by Paul Thompson
Eartha Kitt
Maggie Cheung
Lady in Black Lyon France 1963 Clemens Kalischer
Mary Blair
21 October 1911 - 26 July 1978
Best upcoming FEMALE drummers in the world
Sarah Vista . . .
The Mudlarkers Nicola White and Lara Maiklem.
Noraly Schoenmaker aka 'Itchyboots'...Dutch travel vlogger
Cat Power
Myrna Loy...
Shamisen Girls Ki & Ki . . .
Carol Wayne...
Bettie Page
Suzanne Ciani
Source IG
Ann Margret and Elvis Presley Viva Las Vegas. She is a Queen to his King.
Virginia Christine...
Cool?
Was listening to an old Springsteen demo called Camilla Horn
And now we know...
Nova Twins. These girls are a musical breath of fresh air, mixing indie rock, rap and hip-hop with a shed-load of attitude and plenty of talent to back it up. Amy Love is lead vocalist and guitarist, but Georgia South's bass and effects pedal work is outstanding.
Now here’s a line-up.
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Tatiana Shmayluk. Vocalist in Ukrainian progressive metal band, Jinjer. Astonishing vocal ability from the angelic to the demonic and a towering stage presence in spite of her diminutive stature.
Abby Martin. A fearless investigative journalist.
Gluck (painter, 1895-1978)
Audrey Meadows
I adore these ladies. Whenever they are on TV, it's like being wrapped in a warm blanket.
Marie Laurencin (1883-1956)
Self-Portrait, 1928, Marie Laurencin
Woman with Dove, 1919
Woman with Dove, 1919, Marie Laurencin
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (circa 1940s), also known as The Godmother of Rock N' Roll
Joni Mitchell 2019 😍
Not all maths nerds are bookish blokes wearing glasses and corduroy jackets with elbow patches.
Have long thought of Akiko Yano as a queen of coolness.
She won me over many times, but it started with the song David and eventually that whole record it’s from.
Is ‘David’ David Sylvian?
One never knows, do one?
Diana Dors
Maila Nurmi...
So bad, she was good. The indescribable Margarita Pracatan.
Laura Lee from Khruangbin
Bogey and Bacall...why not combine a king AND queen of cool?
Diamanda Galás
Bilinda Butcher (My Bloody Valentine)
You don't have to be young to be cool, but Veronica Carlson is still the loveliest lady for me (apart from my wife, of course....)A lady with class from a bygone age who told me fantastic anecdotes about Hammer, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.......lovely!
Yuka Fujii [photo by Steve Jansen]
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Marlene is a Queen of Cool. In fact, she's so cool that it's almost as if John Cale's song Antarctica Starts Here is about her if it wasn't about Gloria Swanson.
Brrr . . . Tell us about it, please . . . Kevin Ayers? Thank you.
You don't have to be young and hot to be cool. Miriam Margoyles is a force of nature.
Elizabeth Bernholz a.k.a. Gazelle Twin
I had to throw this one in to "Cleanse the Palate"...