Elizabeth Taylor's Style: A Look Back At Her Memorable Moments (PHOTOS, POLL)

With the death of legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor also comes the loss of an inimitable style icon.

Taylor epitomized Hollywood glamour throughout the 1950s with her wardrobe of chic sheaths sometimes topped off with a tiara. By the beginning of the '60s, Liz experimented on-screen and off, turning to turbans, dramatic eyeliner and capes -- all still make the rounds in today's fashion magazines.

As she aged, she remained put-together with panache...and she accessorized, accessorized, accessorized with diamond-encrusted pieces from her covetable jewelry collection. Taylor also left an indelible mark on the beauty world, launching one of the first celebrity scents.

Take a look back at our favorite Elizabeth Taylor style moments: some super-iconic, some lesser-known.

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[Jessica Neno Cloud]

02:38 PM on 04/06/2011

Elizabeth Taylor is one of the three major categories of style icons from Hollywood. (The other two are Katharine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn.) And we can take her style and re-create it on a budget today. Check out http://hollywoodfashionvault.blogspot.com

[Xylem44]

09:01 AM on 03/28/2011

"Maggie the cat is alive!" - COHTR is by far her best film in terms of just her acting horsepower. That she was able to do that while burying a husband in real life is even more telling of her abilities.

[kat momma]

10:47 PM on 03/27/2011

If the United States had ever had a reigning monarch, I feel confidant that that role would have been given to Dame Elizabeth Taylor.

[jimscott101]

11:02 PM on 04/06/2011

kat momma, I totally agree since Elizabeth Taylor had done so much for charitable organizations and she was such a great star.

[thehuff]

03:26 PM on 03/24/2011

It's just amazing how she transitioned from a young child star to a full fledged adult superstar without skipping a beat.
A true legend. I know of no one remotely similar.

[nana4g]

12:35 AM on 03/24/2011

Elizabeth Taylor was my favorite "movie star", we used to call them, in the days of movie magazines like "Photoplay", which was the only place we could go for photos, stories about them. Once, when I was about 14yrs old, a boy with a crush on me said I looked like her....personally, I thought, well, yes, basically....but he must be over the moon or something, and I should have stayed with him! She was a wonderful person, authentic, never tried to create a public persona; she was who she was, and her beauty was au naturel. Her figure was beautiful, very much a woman and proud of it. She was my favorite and I am impatient with today's genre. Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Glen Close excepted; they are very good. The rest are just celebrities as a job.

[besthairwax]

11:37 PM on 03/23/2011

These are great photo's. I love her eyes, I heard they had a purple tint to them.

[Sunmaker]

11:29 PM on 03/26/2011

Her eyes were really violet. Not blue, hazel or green. Real Violet. I have heard only 2 sets of eyes were ever violet. A very beautiful lady, no one will ever top her.

[veritas88]

11:09 PM on 03/23/2011

This should have also included that picture of her in the lilac/wisteria dress w/ the plunging neckline and the huge diamond necklace. I think that was at an Oscars ceremony.

[veritas88]

11:06 PM on 03/23/2011

She was stunning. I'm glad she was great friends with one of my favorite people; MJ.

[Hermione1973]

09:05 PM on 03/23/2011

My lord, what a beauty! She looks amazing in that bathing suit (wish I could look that good!) and so sexy without having to strip practically naked. And she doesn't look like a stick insect, either; simply very womanly.

[nana4g]

12:38 AM on 03/24/2011

That scene shot is from "Suddenly Last Summer" with Montgomery Clift and Kathryn Hepburn. All of her male co-stars have died, and with exception of Burton who was 50, died young and sadly. Montgomery Clift in an accident, I think, as did James Dean; Rock Hudson of AIDS early on; and, of course Mike Todd, the producer. Seems like she experienced a lot of personal loss in her life as she was good friends with all of them.

[Lil Darlin]

07:29 AM on 03/24/2011

Actually, Mickey Rooney ("National Velvet") is still alive.

She was breathtaking and absolutely deserved to be called an icon. That first moment when she appears on camera in "A Place in the Sun" still makes one gasp. And she was a movie star when there was still glamour and mystery surrounding movie stars.

[msoverall]

08:02 PM on 03/23/2011

What a face, what a woman.

[hot lava]

06:43 PM on 03/23/2011

What a beauty! A free spirit that lived her life as she pleased. My favorite film is National Velvet. She was only 12 at the time, but one can see her budding talent and beauty. I quickly went and ordered the DVD so I can appreciate her again.

Elizabeth, we will miss you, but you have left us many wonderful films that will live forever, as you will in our hearts.

[kat momma]

01:33 AM on 03/28/2011

Agree 100%. Just watched Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Her Maggie the Cat is flawless, and she is stunning in that white dress. She was one of a kind.

[nailinpalinnow]

06:39 PM on 03/23/2011

I had no idea this American cinema icon was British! I live and learn something every day...

[nana4g]

12:28 AM on 03/24/2011

I read she was born of American parents living in London at the time of her birth and the family moved to USA at start of WWII. She had dual citizenship. But I always thought she was British, of British parents, who moved to US.

[donia1970]

06:30 PM on 03/23/2011

It's people like Ms. Taylor that bore me with today's cosmetically endowed actresses. It's sort of like the old commercial for Memorex. Is it Memorex or Live? The actresses of yesteryear could act circles around the ones of today, and was far more naturally beautiful. Who remembers Lana Turner in "Imitation of Life" and Madam X? Susan Hayward in "Backstreet" and "I Want To D ie"? Joan Crawford in "Mildred Pierce"? I could go on, but you get the drift....

[TheAntiOkie]

06:53 PM on 03/23/2011

Yes I get your drift and allow me to add:  Jennifer Jones.  Loretta Young.

[Lil Darlin]

07:32 AM on 03/24/2011

Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, at least for beauty, if not for talent.

[eburg]

07:40 PM on 03/23/2011

Are you nuts? Cosmetically endowed. Look at this woman's photos through the years. She was one of the most incredibly, naturally beautifully women in the world. And even more, she was one of the most generous and truly kind persons.

[shutterbabe]

09:35 PM on 03/23/2011

" Generous and truly kind." Oh, yes.

[Heynow70]

06:27 PM on 03/23/2011

A real beauty. God doesn't make such beautiful creation too often.

[donia1970]

06:37 PM on 03/23/2011

...apparently, He chose to stop at one....

[yoyo1900]

06:25 PM on 03/23/2011

Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolfe, I am George I am.