Prue Leith typically receives compliments from The Nice British Baking Present followers for her quirky and colourful style sense, however the TV decide has lengthy been a beacon of fashion and glamour.
On Monday, November 18, the official Baking Present Instagram account shared a classy throwback photograph of Leith within the Nineteen Seventies. “After all Prue appeared this glammy within the Nineteen Seventies,” the caption learn.
The black-and-white snap exhibits a dark-haired Leith in a glossy night robe and lavish diamond earrings as she poses towards a bar. Followers went wild for the pic, with one Instagram commenter saying Leith was “Wanting like a Bond Lady.”
“Wow! What a knock out! However she’s nonetheless as gorgeous immediately as within the 70’s,” one other mentioned of the 84-year-old restaurateur.
“She seems to be like Natalie Wooden,” added one other.
One other wrote, “Fashionista…then and now.”
“Endlessly fashionable and fashionable!” mentioned one consumer.
“Whole knockout then and now!” one other added.
One other commenter joked, “Ooh now do ’70s Paul,” referring to fellow Baking Present decide Paul Hollywood.
Leith isn’t any stranger to style, having collaborated with the manufacturers Lola Rose and Ronit Furst on her personal vary of merchandise, together with glasses, necklaces, and earrings.
“I’ve by no means been a slave to style and I by no means can be. After all, I wish to look nice, however not at the price of pinched toes and uncomfortable ‘body-shapers’ or hours spent in crowded retailers,” Leith writes on her private web site. “Carrying the best outfit that fits your form and magnificence and is carefree and comfortable, may give you an actual confidence enhance, and an enormous quantity of delight.”
She continues, “I like color and quirky equipment and after so many feedback and compliments about my necklaces, earrings and glasses….. I made a decision to launch my very own ranges.”
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Earlier this 12 months, Leith shocked followers when she made her first runway look on the Vin + Omi present at London Trend Week. She wore a black latex get-up with matching gloves.
Talking about her catwalk expertise in an interview with Bella journal, Leith mentioned, “As a result of I’m so close to the tip, I’m a bit extra reckless now. What’s the worst that may occur?… If I wish to do it and it feels like good enjoyable I simply suppose, ‘why not?’”
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