Claire Danes Goes Eighties Excess for BlackBook Magazine. And Talks Her Upcoming Wedding to Hugh Dancy

Claire Danes in BlackBook

A reinvented Claire Danes wearing a one-sleeved, Studio 54-worthy Herve Leger dress -- a far cry from the flannel shirts and Dr. Martens Angela Chase wore on "My So-Called Life."

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The actress is so, like, totally '80s! Shown here in Alexis Bittar giant gold earrings that would have fit in perfectly during the Me Decade.


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Pretty in pink Emilio Pucci and an era of excess-appropriate necklace.


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Claire Danes in '80s-influenced power clothes, including this Gucci blazer and not much else.

"It's great, as a woman, to feel entitled to express strength and power, to not be in some kind of flowery frock running through fields -- though that has its place," she tells BlackBook.

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Claire Danes, here in a D&G blazer and ripped KSUBI jeans, is now 30.

"... I think, growing up in New York, that my maturity was disproportionate to my actual age," she tells BlackBook. "So it's nice to kind of catch up with myself. I don't feel so freaky now."

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