Joan Collins shared fresh vacation photos from St. Tropez on July 20, giving a new look at her summer getaway with Percy Gibson. The 93-year-old posted the images on Instagram as the South of France baked in heat that she said made hand fans, sunglasses and plenty of water essential.
One photo showed Collins in a white swimsuit and matching turban, finished with a coral reef-inspired necklace and teardrop earrings. In another, she wore a white halter wrap dress with a pearl necklace and a large jeweled pendant. The posts fit a pattern she has kept up all summer, with Collins using Instagram to turn the trip into a running album of poolside style and bright, polished looks.
The timing mattered because the weather did not play along with the luxury. Collins said July was one of the hottest months ever in Saint Tropez, even as she and Gibson had what she called a marvelous time. The two often took refuge at the pool, and she had already shown herself on June 27 in a black-and-white striped swimsuit taking a dip in the cool water with her husband.
That contrast is what gives the trip its pull: the setting is glamorous, but Collins kept returning to the heat as part of the story. She wrote on June 27 that it was 33C, or 92F, in the South of France, and said the only sensible answer was to lean on shade, sunglasses and water. The photos from July 20 extend that same note of resilience, with Collins making the heat part of the scene rather than a reason to step away from it.
There is one detail the posts do not settle, and it is the simplest one: where in St. Tropez the pair stayed. But that gap barely changes the impression Collins left. At 93, she is still presenting travel the way she has long presented everything else, with sharp clothes, a steady sense of fun and Percy Gibson at her side. For readers who know her from Dynasty and The Stud, the images are another reminder that her public image still moves easily between old-screen glamour and very current social media.
That is also why the trip resonates beyond a single holiday post. It follows the same relationship note Collins has shared before, including her description of Gibson as the man who brings her coffee every morning and leaves her notes when he heads out. The vacation photos do not add a new chapter to that story so much as confirm it: this is a couple still traveling together, still posting together and still treating even punishing weather as part of the adventure.
