Glamour’s 70th Birthday - American Icons

March 11th, 2009  •   Posted by: noya  •   Posted in: magazines  •   Comment
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Glamour is celebrating their 70th birthday and to celebrate they’ve put together a great little piece on female American icons and used well-known images and replaced them with movie stars, singers, and the like. Names inlcude Emma Stone as Carrie Bradshaw, Emma Roberts as Audrey Hepburn, and even Alicia Keys as the First Lady.

Check out more images and background info on the original icons after the jump.

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Alexis Bledel - Rosie the Riveter

The poster on the right was created In 1942 to get females to join the workforce as much of the male labour had joined the army. The slogan was ‘We Can Do It’, and yes, we can.

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Lindsay Lohan - Madonna

1984 MTV Video Music Awards - During the Like a Virgin performance.

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Elisha Cuthbert - Brandi Chastain

At 31, Chastain scored the game-winning penalty kick to win the first ever women’s Soccer World Cup in 1999.

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Alicia Keys - Michelle Obama

Besides the fact that she is the first ever African American First Lady, she has grown to become a fashion icon in her own right.

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America Ferrera - Dolores Huerta

Huerta fighted for the rights of migrant workers together with Cesar Chavez, and together they created the United Farm Workers of America, and in 1975 she played a critical role in enacting policies that allowed workers to bargain for better wages and conditions. At 79, she’s still active  and even campaigned for Hilary Clinton in 2008.

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Odette Yustman, Spencer Grammer, Rumer Willis - Woodstock girls

The ’60s belonged to the hippies. The “We can do whatever we want” ethos helped pave the way for the following and subsequent generations. Goodbye white gloves, hello jeans!

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Emma Roberts - Audrey Hepburn

Although she was born in Belgium, she went on to become one of the most recognizable and loved icons. Here we see a scene from one of her most popular movies, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. She continues to inspire elegance in women today.

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Camilla Belle - Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore debuted with her own show in 1970 and became an instant hit. She was the personification of the single, thirty-something, successful, confident woman who was too busy building a career as a successful producer and creating meaningful friendships to be bothered with finding a husband.

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Chanel Iman - Althea Gibson

After years of playing segregated tenis, the late Althea Gibson broke the barrier which up until that point didn’t allow women of colour to play with their white counterparts. In 1950 at the age of 23, she became the first African American to compete in major US Championships, and at 30 years old she won in Wimbledon. During her career, whe won 11 major championships.
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Paula Patton - Billie Holiday

Suffering from sexual abuse, and a drug addiction, Billie Holiday created music on such a personal level that many still pale in comparison. She was also the first African American to sing with an all-white orchestra.

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Hayden Panettiere - Amelia Earhart

In 1932, Earhartt - in her leather jacket, scarf, and cropped hair - became the first women pilot to fly a solo transatlantic flight tearing down the typical stereotypes of women at the time. Although at 39, she mysteriously disappeard during a flight around the world, she to this day remains a symbol of an independent woman that doesn’t know the meaning of fear.

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Emma Stone - Carrie Bradshaw

I don’t think this one needs an introduction. Carrie Bradshaw - the star of one of the most successful series of all time, Sex and the City. She is a style icon, we know full episodes by heart, immediately identify with the soundtrack of the series (and now of the movie too). We all remember the ‘Carrie’ necklace, and we all love Mr. Big, and we all want that huge walk-in closet.

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Ana Bárbara says:
2009, April 25., 3:33 pm

THAT’S NOT MARY TYLER MOORE! O_o”


That’s not a scene from Breakfast at Tiffany’s…


They got Rosie the Riveter wrong too if they did their research the would have found out that this http://www.mainepuzzles.com/Images/Norman-Rockwell-Jigsaw-Puzzles/8103_Rosie_the_Riveter_Jigsaw_Puzzle_lg.jpg is the real Rosie The Riveter.

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