"total icon" is a valid phrase and can be used in written English, depending on the context
For example, you could say, "This clothing designer is a total icon in the fashion industry."
"You don't read it for the facts, but it's a total icon," explains Mr. Richman, 46, arguably a law enforcement agency nerd.
Joan Didion is a total icon to me, she's a brilliant writer and she just does it - she writes, and she's gone through hell.
The Golden Globes co-host proved that she is not only hilarious but also a total style icon.
Every gamine's total fashion icon is definitely Audrey Hepburn.
At age 32, Hawkes is retiring from competition with three gold medals, equaling the total of Australian icon Dawn Fraser.
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Read was by now a fully fledged Australian icon, his total book sales having passed 500,000 and his live performances, in which he showed a gift for comedy, selling out theatres.
And this is but a small sample from a remarkable total: 493 instances of iconic, and 670 of icon or icons.
And his book starts to sound weirdly premonitory: here is Barthes surrounded by his glum little icons, fantasising his own "total, undialectical death".
There are around 200 text blocks and icons that illustrate a total of six moods: frustration, joy, sadness etc.
In the last decade, a total glazed building's façades became the icon of Dubai.
