Inspiration - Irene Adler

Man Rachel McAdam's makeup in Sherlock Holmes was just fantastic. Nearly as good as her three peice suit at the end. Victorian fashion = style. 
Adler had "the face of the most beautiful of women and the mind of the most resolute of men," according to the King.

"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex....”