The late 1960s saw Streisand’s rise to fame. A star is born, The Way We Were, Funny Girl, and The Prince of Tides are just a few of the films in which she starred. Streisand made the decision to approach style differently early in her career.
“I think I dressed differently and I looked different,” she said. “I never simply followed the current fashion. Other pictures raced through my mind. Historical dramas, museum paintings, and those amazing Mucha posters of Sarah Bernhardt that I first saw as a teenager all served as inspiration for me.”
The actress recalled being called out by a journalist for wearing a pinstripe suit with a low-cut vest and a skirt with a sensual slit to then-President Clinton’s inaugural gala, claiming the ensemble sent a “disturbing signal” and a “coy mixed message.”
She said via email, “I felt that writer was reading a lot into that outfit, and it said more about her than about me.” “Why can’t women be successful and attractive, strong and sensitive, intelligent and sensual?,” as I wrote in my book?
