A List Of Tina Turner’s Best Fashion Moments

Tina wore this jacquard and chiffon green dress during a photo shoot was meant to promote her as an R&B duo with her then-husband, Ike Turner. She was 25-years-old here and looked very much the ’60s ingenue.

Tina wore this navy-and-white hounds tooth suit during a recording of the musical television show Ready Steady Go! in London. Around 27-years-old here, Tina was still married to Ike and still stayed largely covered-up while she was performing.

While Ike & Tina further rose to stardom, Tina began to wear fringed dresses at many of her performances, like her iconic 1970 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

This iconic 1977 outfit is important for Tina’s career on multiple levels. For one, it symbolized her officially “spreading her wings” in the wake of her divorce from Ike Turner. And two, it was the debut of the look of the new Tina. This new Tina was bolder, sexier, and often dressed by famous costume designer Bob Mackie.

This look was one of the many revealing outfits that Tina wore on her post-divorce tour. The bedazzled bustier-corset was, once again, designed by the famous Bob Mackie.

Another post-divorce tour dress, this orange, feathered Bob Mackie “flame dress” was peak diva.

You can also see versions of this dress on Cher and Beyonce.

This ripped-up, She-Rah outfit is a look that symbolizes Tina Turner’s transition from newly-solo artist to global superstar and icon. She wore this1983 outfit right before she released her mega-hit album Private Dancer in ’84 along with the smash single, “What’s Love Got to Do With It”. Here, you can see she’s already starting to transition to her signature shag wig.

This dress-pant, dress-shirt, loose tie-combo perfectly encapsulates Tina Turner’s iconic look, down to the shaggy rock star hair cut. It was at this time that Tina Turner completely came into her own and was comfortable with her edgy, rock diva image.

Many people might recognize this outfit from the music video for “What’s Love Got to Do With It”, and indeed, it’s very similar. Tina wore this outfit during her “Private Dancer” tour throughout 1985. The jean jacket, the leather miniskirt, the fish nets, the honey-blonde wig. This is the Tina look and what people think of when they think of the Queen of Rock.

Tina Turner wore this futuristic, chain-mail armor look for the 1985 movie, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Like other Mad Max installments, this movie is set in post-apocalyptic Australia. In this movie, Tina Turner plays the villainous Aunty Entity, the ruthless, glamorous leader of Bartertown.

This black leather cut-out Azzedine Alaïa dress is pure Tina Turner. Sexy, edgy, daring. She wore this dress to Alaïa’s 1989 fashion show. She was 49-years-old here and at the peak of her fame and power.

Tina Turner wore this stunning green floral Gianfranco Ferre gown in 1999 to celebrate her 50th birthday in London with her future husband, Erwin Bach.

This outfit — faded jeans, white, flowy button-down — shows another, more informal side of Tina. This was one of the outfits she wore while on her “Foreign Affair” tour in 1990.

The belted silver chainmail frock that Tina wore at Radio City Music Hall in 1993 highlighted all of her best assets: her muscular arms, her figure, and her incredible legs. This dress is probably the outfit people most remember her in.

Here, Tina Turner was 58-years-old and rocking a silver-and-black sequined slip dress that we’re sure stopped a fair amount of traffic. An iconic late-’90s look for her.

Tina wore this sheer black ensemble to the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes in 2000.

The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll wore this flashy silver bustier and matching hot pants when she performed at the 2008 Grammys alongside another queen: Queen Bey. Take a look if you’re interested in watching their incredible performance.

By 2019, Tina Turner was 80-years-old and still every bit the stunning rock diva that she had been for decades. She wore this floor-length bejeweled tawny-brown gown to the Broadway premiere of “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical”.