Dynasty star Dame Joan Collins proved that age was just a number when she stepped onto the red carpet at the Variety Power of Women event in London on Wednesday night.
The 93-year-old looked incredible in a sequinned gold blouse with a wrap design on the torso, paired with a knee-length black skirt, black heels, black pantyhose and eye-catching dangling earrings that matched her top.
The legendary actress looked glamorous with smokey eyes and a pink lip, and wore her brunette locks in bombshell waves. By her side was her husband of 24 years, Percy Gibson, who looked dapper in a navy suit with a patterned blue tie.
The couple held hands as they walked together on the red carpet, before Joan was honored at the event with the Power of Women Icon of the Year award.
“I discovered that to survive in this business and to thrive, you have to show which women are needed to reinvent themselves,” she said on stage while accepting the award. “We have to reinvent ourselves time and time again.”
Joan’s career in Hollywood is one of the most enduring, with the actress having made her onscreen debut at just 15 years old. The A-lister looks as young as ever at 93, and shared with The Telegraph that good genes and a happy life were the secrets to her youthful visage.
© Variety via Getty Images“I have very good genes – I’m very lucky,” she told the publication. “My father lived to be 87, and for somebody born in 1903 that’s pretty amazing.”
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“My mother took incredibly exceptional care of me and my sister. When we were growing up, she gave us all supplements when nobody was taking supplements,” Joan continued. “I had great parents, I had a wonderful, loving mother, a quite strict father, so I never got into drugs and booze or any of that, so I never thought that there was anything particularly wrong with me.”
“I just believe in healthy living. I don’t eat junk, I get eight hours of sleep, I exercise. It’s very simple,” she added. “But being healthy is not my main focus. My main focus is my life, my children, my husband, my friends.” Joan was married four times before she met her soulmate, Percy, while performing in the play Love Letters in 2000, which he produced.
© Getty Images“I kissed a lot of frogs before I found my prince,” she wrote in her 2011 memoir The World According to Joan. “For those women who are looking for a life partner, that old saying that men are like buses and ‘if you wait long enough the right one will come along’ is true for a reason.”
© Variety via Getty ImagesThe mother of three shared that her age difference with Percy, who is 32 years her junior, barely even registers for them anymore.
“I was in my 60s, and he was in his 30s [when we met], but the age difference never posed a problem,” she told The Guardian. “We talked it through, and he didn’t want children. He adores my children and grandchildren. We’ve been married for 11 years, but when I look at him across a room, my heart still skips.”
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