The 63-Year-Old French Woman the World Is Suddenly Obsessed With

last updated 13 August 2019

If you watched Sunday night's Golden Globes, the winner for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama probably caught your attention. Isabelle Huppert won the award for her performance in the French film Elle, and her incredibly chic midriff-baring top and skirt along with an ear full of edgy Repossi ear cuffs have landed the actress on a number of best dressed lists and left the internet buzzing.

As it turns out, the 63-year-old Parisian has starred in well over 100 films since her debut in the early 1970s, and she's been a French fashion darling for quite some time, regularly appearing on the front rows of Dior and Chanel (recently seated right next to Pharrell). Given that the actress has no fewer than six films set to debut in 2017 and an Academy Award nomination is likely in the cards, it doesn't look like this will be the last we Americans hear of her.

Huppert's sophisticated style is made up of classic pieces like well-tailored pantsuits, long-sleeve gowns, and blazers paired with slim flared jeans, worn with the effortlessness that French women seem to naturally possess.

Keep scrolling to see why Isabelle Huppert has the potential to be a French style icon for every age group.

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Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.