Tina Turner came closer than perhaps any of her peers to articulating through clothes the yearning for independence, rebellion and danger that the music of that time embodied, writes Rachel Tashjian in Style.
Light played off every outfit and every texture, emphasizing how she couldn’t be limited and how her energy couldn’t be controlled. Turner embodied the freedom of rock-and-roll and R&B — and insisted that sexy clothes could be a show of force.
Even her backup singers’ hairdos seem to dance. As a warm-up, the Ikettes and Turner do a bit of dancing that’s silly and cool — chicken wings, jazz hands — but the quickness and ease with which they execute the moves make them look like they’re mocking the whole idea of choreography. Unlike other rock star uniforms, Turner’s never aged. It just kept dazzling. Her mixture of rawness and glitz pushed designers to do some of their most fabulous work. She tasked Bob Mackie with slicing outrageous slits into her dresses, so long tentacles of fabric swished around her.
She wore a number of dresses by the sensual avant-gardist Azzedine Alaïa, a Paris-based designer who knew that a tight dress wasn’t some sleazy giveaway but a careful art of sculpting fabric around a body to enshrine it as something godlike. She came closer than perhaps any of her peers to articulating through clothes the yearning for independence, rebellion and danger that the music of that time embodied.
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