Tina Turner invented power dressing
For this pop star, outfits weren’t about being sexy. They were about her force, her voice, her irrepressible energy.
Everything about Tina Turner moved. The singer, who died on Wednesday at 83, knew how to wear sequins, tassels, beads. For her entire life – she first performed with her ex-husband, Ike Turner in the late 1950s, and toured nearly into her 70s – she wore the shortest and most animated dresses, bounding across the stage in clothing that sparkled and shimmied like it was trying to keep up with her.
Tina Turner took her fashion cues from showgirls. Turner had to hypnotise everyone in the audience, and she entranced you by never letting your eyes sit still. Getty
Washington Post
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