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Style Evolution: Oprah Winfrey
From her loud eighties skirt suits to her recent A+ red carpet ensembles, journey back through the decades with Oprah Winfrey and her ever-changing wardrobe.
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Style Evolution: Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey, 32, in all of her multi-colored '80s glory, rocks a circular hair 'do, garish makeup and a shiny laser-print silk button-up. This was only four months after "The Oprah Winfrey Show" was nationally broadcast for the first time.
Style Evolution: Oprah Winfrey
Before mixing prints was all the rage on the runway, Winfrey was doing so in the late 80's at the National Conference for Women in New York. The slimmed-down star pairs her prints with big hair, shiny black panty hose and conservative heels.
Style Evolution: Oprah Winfrey
The famed TV host dresses to the nines for the American All-Star Tribute to Oprah Winfrey. While she (thankfully) doesn't reattempt this flat hairstyle again, voluminous taffeta skirts like the one she's wearing will become one of Winfrey's go-to styles for the next two decades.
Style Evolution: Oprah Winfrey
When matchy-matchy goes wrong. Winfrey wears a graphic black and white skirt suit by Vlabo Besic and matching pumps at the Foundation for the Declaration For the Rights of Children.
Style Evolution: Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey goes late '90s minimalist and shows off her toned arms in a sleek black dress and shiny silver wrap at the premiere of her film, "Beloved".
Style Evolution: Oprah Winfrey
The taffeta ballgown skirt reappears, albeit in a pastel shade and on a slimmed down Winfrey, at the 1995 Essence Awards in New York City. The famed television host is accompanied by her longtime boyfriend Stedman Graham.
Style Evolution: Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey looks radiant in a waist-cinching pale yellow gown at the 54th Annual Emmy Awards.
Style Evolution: Oprah Winfrey
And then she takes a style misstep in this bizarre black top and matching pants that feature gathered and ruffled hems at the Spring/Summer 2005 Valentino show in Paris.
Style Evolution: Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey nails this casual chic look with a long belted camel coat, classic Birkin bag, slightly flared jeans and sleek heels while taking a stroll in midtown Manhattan. We're also loving her curly hair and youthful makeup.
Style Evolution: Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey mixes up her red (er, blue) carpet routine with this smokin' red body con dress that wraps around her torso for the opening of the Hearst Tower, where "O, The Oprah Magazine" is located, in New York.
Style Evolution: Oprah Winfrey
