From Catwoman to Cookie & Claire: The 9 Most Stylish Divas In TV History

On TV, it’s been a long time since there’s been a bad bitch–and that is to say, a seriously stylish, scheming siren–like ex-con matriarch Cookie Lyon on Fox’s monster hit Empire. But Cookie is but the latest in a long line of bad TV bitches who were seriously helped by take-no-prisoners wardrobes in signaling come-hither deviousness. And while we wait for the second season of Empire, let’s look back all the way to the 1960s and work our way up to the Cookie Monster! Along for the ride are two costume designers who know how to dress a bad bitch. First, there’s Broadway’s Clint Ramos, who created costumes for “Here Lies Love,” David Byrne’s recent discofied stage biography of 1980s Filipino First Lady (and genuinely bad bitch) Imelda Marcos. Then there’s the legendary Patricia Field. As the woman who dressed both the dames of Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada’s Miranda Priestley, she also knows a thing or two about how clothes help make a dangerous woman.

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