Tina Turner's unmistakable style

Unique, biting and very powerful. Tina Turner died last night at the age of 83 at her home in Switzerland after a long illness that had kept her off the stage for some time. Queen and icon of black music, a rock'n'roll lioness, chart topper and pop star, Anna Mae Bullock, born in Tennessee on 26 November 1939. When she thinks of her life, she says: "My life is like a lotus flower born of mud. But remember, the thicker the layer that buries the roots, the more magnificent the flower will be." But she has had many lives, all full of problems, full of pain and success, but always with a mixture of melancholy, fierce vitality and hunger. The first, as of Anna Mae, "The Cotton Plantation Girl", as she called herself, she became Tina Turner and conquered the stage and music scene of the time with hits like Proud Mary and Nutbush City Limits alongside her musician husband Ike, whom she met in 1956. She began her second existence with only 36 cents in her pocket. That was all she had in her pocket when Tina fled her Dallas hotel room in 1976, leaving Ike asleep and subjecting her to decades of constant physical and emotional abuse. The third coincided with Private Dancer, the song of her rebirth that again guaranteed her worldwide fame. It was the 1980s and 1990s when her solo career exploded thanks to hits like (Simply) The Best, What's Love Got to Do with It, We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome), Golden Eye. In six decades, she collected 11 Grammy Awards and more than 200 million tickets sold for her concerts.

No one can forget her raspy voice, the toughness with which she commanded the stage, her music, but neither can her style. "There are no rules that say you have to dress a certain way or be a certain way. We live in exciting times for women," she said in a 2009 interview. And in her career, she has held nothing back when it comes to fashion. She wore creations by Bob Mackie, Versace and Giorgio Armani. Her beauty signature was fluffy, wild hair and red lipstick, while her wardrobe consisted of denim, leather clothing, fringe, glittery dresses and lots of miniskirts. Her legs were as legendary as her songs, although she downplayed this by saying, "I am the last person to ask about my legs!. Growing up, I always thought they were too long and skinny. I felt like an awkward fringe, so I never wanted to show them off. When I wore short skirts on stage, it was for a practical reason - they gave me the freedom to move, and I really like to move."

To celebrate Tina Turner and her unforgettable style, here's a compilation of her best style moments: