Joan’s great fashion strip!

I’m clearing out my corsets – I mean, closets – for charity darlings... but will you dare to bare and wear my cast-offs?

SHE is one of the greatest style icons of all time. As Alexis Carrington in 1980s TV series Dynasty, Joan Collins epitomised the era of power dressing – and rarely appears off screen without her trademark glitz and glamour.

Now the 82-year-old actress, who was made a Dame in the New Year Honours List, is to auction off scores of fabulous outfits, including some more intimate numbers, to raise millions for her favourite charities.

Dame Joan, a self-professed ‘hoarder and collector’, has saved hundreds of costumes from her six-decade career, including her incredible Dynasty clothing.

At her home in St Tropez, she said: ‘I’ve had all this stuff in storage for years.

‘I kept everything, but my daughters aren’t going to wear it, so I thought I’d let somebody else appreciate it.’ She also revealed she designs many gowns herself: ‘I find it extraordinarily hard to find any evening dresses to fit me, which is why I designed most of mine. I know what flatters me. Designers don’t create for a real woman’s body.’ And she admitted she was not sad to say farewell to her creations: ‘I never miss anything that doesn’t miss you.’ The gowns will be on display at Ireland’s Newbridge Silverware Museum of Style Icons between October 5 and November 8. The auction will be at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, on December 16. See juliensauctions.com. It was a case of girl-power dressing for this revealing Dynasty shot in 1983. ‘Nolan Miller was the designer for the show,’ says Joan. ‘He had amazing women who had been making clothes by hand for 40 or 50 years. Each piece was a work of art.’

LOT 2 READY FOR BED... IT MUST BE DYNASTY!