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The Most Inspiring Fashion Icons Over 50 Right Now

Behold the impeccably dressed women we hope to look like when we grow up

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Tilda Swinton, age 54 Her style: Androgynous, minimalist, alien

This poised Scottish thespian is as daring and eccentric in her style choices as she is in her artistic roles. When she isn't stupefying audiences with modern performance art and complex indie film characters, she's gracing red carpets and photo spreads in futuristic, clean-lined ensembles by designers like Haider Ackermann, Lanvin and Jil Sander.

So what inspires Swinton's distinctive, gender-bending aesthetic? Her dismissal of conventional beauty started early. She told W Magazine, "Being beautiful was never really something I associated with people I knew -- certainly not girls. Boys, maybe. Horses, yes. And certainly my great-grandmother Elsie Swinton, whose imperial grandeur was like a watermark."

As Swinton's career has grown, so has her reputation as an unapologetic style icon. Think: slender, monochromatic pantsuits, sheet-like gowns and slick, bare makeup.

Photograph courtesy of Vogue

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