tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140665552024-03-07T19:53:24.159-08:00clothesaholicClothes and culture, new and old, high and low, and in the movies.Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.comBlogger214125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-49406753379786920122013-05-17T12:11:00.002-07:002013-05-17T12:11:46.892-07:00Cannes Stars -- Sonam Kapoor<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I don't know who this lady is, but she can wear <strong><em>the hell</em></strong> out of a dress. For full coverage of the Cannes Film Festival fashion, go visit <a href="http://www.redcarpet-fashionawards.com/page/2/">Red Carpet Fashion Awards</a>. </div>
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<br />Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-78354759942408002782013-05-16T23:49:00.000-07:002013-05-16T23:51:41.825-07:00Final miscellaneous thoughts about the 2012 Met GalaI've got to finish this thing -- Cannes is upon us and I must go on Swinton watch! So . . . <br />
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<strong><em>Miley Cyrus in Mark Jacobs. </em></strong>My pick for best dressed at this event: baby bear isn't too punk, she isn't too dressy, she's juuuuuuuust right. I love her hair, too. Hell has just frozen over.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Linda Evangelista in Marchesa. </em></strong>Linda looks like she just floated in from a vampires' Ren Faire, and I just love it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>January Jones in Chanel Haute Couture.</em></strong> January Jones looks a lot like Grace Kelly, a fact that the producers and costume designers of <strong><em>Mad Men</em></strong> love and exploit. January, however, can't be too fond of the resemblance because she keeps dressing against type. She really needs to get over it; it's much better to look like Grace Kelly than an angry David Bowie impersonator.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gerard Butler in Dolce & Gabbana. This picture makes Gerard looks like he has the most awesome mullet ever. Thank you, random young lady passerby.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Michael Kors and Jennifer Lopez wearing Michael Kors, of course.</em></strong> It's their world and we're just living in it, bitches. <br />
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Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-14915671678961099892013-05-16T21:18:00.000-07:002013-05-18T16:13:08.099-07:00Clothes on Film: Glama-jamas and the Met Gala<span style="font-family: Arial;">I imagine a designer, sometime in the 1950s, thinking to
himself "Gee, ball gowns, overskirts and pants are all really popular
right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if I put all those
things together, make them out of satin, brocade and lace, and call the
ensemble . . . hostess pajamas! " And thus an another incarnation of that wardrobe
abomination, the dress over pants, was born.</span><br />
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the leading lady appeared dressed in hostess pajamas it meant that her
character was glamorous (ball gown), slightly bohemian (pants), and sexy
(split-to-the-waist overskirt), or, and this is a big <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">or</i></b>, it could mean that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>her character was just pretending to be all
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of Life </i></b>Lana Turner (shown here in an unrelated publicity still) wore hostess
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A search for "hostess pajamas" on google yielded more hits for Barbie clothes than anything else, so you know they had to be hot:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And you KNOW hostess pajamas had to be super glamorous if
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version of hostess pajamas disappeared in favor of palazzo pants and other
simpler, saner, clothing, but designers were and are always trying to bring
back the dress-over-skirt and pajama dressing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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why this garment was supposed to be worn at home, (b) recall what a ridiculous
and often unflattering ensemble it is and (c) separate the truly glamorous
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<strong><em>Sophia Coppola in Marc Jacobs, with Marc Jacobs.</em></strong> All pajama, very little glama, but at least she's prepared to take a nap if things get really boring.</div>
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<strong><em>Sara Jessica Parker in custom Giles, with custom Louboutin boots.</em></strong> Lotsa ball gown, very little jama, but she has to be wearing some kind of pants under that thing, doesn't she? For the love of all that's holy, DOESN'T SHE?</div>
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<strong><em>Jessica Biel in Giambattista Valli Haute Couture, with the designer, Giambattista Valli.</em></strong> Jessica looks a little worse for wear in that photo, so it's appropriate that she's wearing her glama-jamas <strong><em>derelicte</em></strong>.</div>
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<strong><em>Jessica Paré in Jason Wu with the designer, Jason Wu.</em></strong> Jessica's outfit is probably the closest to the Hollywood original; I could see Lana Turner wearing it, but I wouldn't like it on her, either. Damn that 1980s blue. And girl, the eye make-up? No.</div>
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<strong><em>Doetzen Kroes in custom Theyskens' Theory, with the designer, Olivier Theyskens.</em></strong> Something got lost in translation and Doetzen wound up in a skirt over a skirt, both slit up the whazoo, but she's hot, the leather over-dress is kewl, and Olivier Theyskens is as cute as a button, so who cares?</div>
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<strong><em>Hilary Rhoda in Wes Gordon.</em></strong> Now would that be business in the front and party in the back, or party in the back and business in the front?</div>
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<strong><em>Gaia Repossi, in Dior Haute Couture.</em></strong> If this is the new Dior Haute Couture, then LVHM needs to hire a sobriety coach and bring back John Galliano right away. (I bet that crazy little dude could design the shit out of a pair of glama-jamas.)</div>
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<strong><em>Elaina Watley in Naeem Khan and Victor Cruz.</em></strong> This one, I like. It's tuxedo-ish, which is always a winning look, the overskirt and pants don't clash and they're nicely balanced. </div>
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Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-16792328458068167072013-05-15T10:52:00.003-07:002013-05-17T11:35:25.341-07:00The Problems of Rich Girls<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Several years ago I went to charity balls all the time, not
as a guest, but as a model showing and talking up fur coats donated as silent auction
items.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The parties were mostly held in
local casinos, and because this is Reno and not Las Vegas, there are no Chihuly
chandeliers, three-tier artificial waterfalls, tigers, or Venetian canals in
their lobbies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, everything looks
a little tired, especially the carpets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The people who attended those parties were a mixed bunch, old rich, new
rich, no rich, wearing whatever they thought passed for party clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They, and I, generally had a very good time,
especially those people at the "lifestyle" convention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Google it and use your imagination.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyhoo, looking at the photos from the Met Gala red
carpet, with its tired old red carpet and its motley assemblage of alleged
celebrities, made me recall my home-town parties. The big difference was that most of the people at the Met Gala didn't seem to be
having a good time at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it was
all that black pseudo-punk eye makeup that made the women look so grim, or
maybe their feet hurt, or maybe they were hungry from starving to fit into
their sometimes really ugly couture outfits and angry because they knew they
couldn't actually eat at the event for fear of getting a spot on the borrowed
garment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows?</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is known, however, that Gwyneth Paltrow didn't have a
good time at the Gala, and her remarks about the event being overcrowded, hot,
and disorganized got almost as much </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/05/candid-gwyneth-paltrow-says-met-gala-sucked/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">press</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">
as Kim K's couch-impersonation photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
was thoroughly dissed for those comments, too, because GP is the woman
everybody loves to hate; how else could she be voted "most beautiful"
and "most hated" celebrity in one year?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Okay, I know how she was voted most
beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People Magazine always puts
celebrities with some huge project to promote on the cover of their "most
beautiful," or "sexiest" issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Iron Man 3 was released around the time People published its most
beautiful issue, Gwyneth is in Iron Man 3, hence Gwyneth is the most beautiful.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One TV commentator called GB's complaints
"rich girl problems," implying that she should be grateful for being invited at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
columnist chided her for daring to piss off Anna Wintour, Vogue Magazine's
editor-in-chief and thus ensuring that she'd never be invited to the Gala again
and endangering her status as a Vogue cover girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (</span>Now that's what I'd call rich girl problems.)</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But I have to give GP a pass on her comments because neither she,
nor any of the other, celebrities at the Gala were, strictly speaking,
guests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They, their host, and the
corporate sponsors who actually ponied up the money, were all involved in a complicated dance of
self-promotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Met Gala is supposed
to be elite, exclusive, artistic, a chance to rub shoulders with A-list actors,
socialites, and fashionistas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
Gwyneth shows up, Vogue's power and prestige is enhanced – look, we called and
an Oscar-winning most beautiful actress answered! – and some designer gets his
dress photographed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In return, GP's
reputation as a woman of taste gets a boost, and she can trade on that to get
more covers, more dresses, and more Goop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
This year, though, </span>I'd say she didn't get the benefit of her bargain. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Anna Wintour supposedly has veto power over the
attendees, so not every Tom, Dick and Harriet with $250,000 to pay for a table
can buy their way in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was reported
that Ms. Wintour barred the cast of the Real Housewives of New York, no doubt about
to attend on Bravo's dime and fixin' to brawl, and Kris Kardashian, because she
wanted a "parade of stars, not a parade of reality stars." But </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.style.com/slideshows/2013/peopleparties/parties/050613_2013_Met_Gala/083m.jpg">Heidi Klum</a> made the cut, so did <a href="http://www.style.com/slideshows/2013/peopleparties/parties/050613_2013_Met_Gala/110m.jpg">KellyOsbourne</a> and <a href="http://www.style.com/slideshows/2013/peopleparties/parties/050613_2013_Met_Gala/084m.jpg">Julianne Hough</a>, who shows up everywhere for some reason unknown to
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were a lot of other
"Dancing with the Star" quality stars in attendance, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus instead of looking like sophisticated
fashionistas, the red carpet gang resembled escapees from the People's Choice
Awards plus one or two visitors from the AVNs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
were too many blonde actresses from every list from A to Z, too many no-so-super
models, and too many pop stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pop
stars are the death of class; how could Anna not know that?</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then there was Julianna Rancic reporting from the red
carpet for E! news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If pop stars are the
death of class, Julianna and E! news are the undertakers.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the end, people like <a href="http://www.style.com/slideshows/2013/peopleparties/parties/050613_2013_Met_Gala/086m.jpg">Niki Minaj</a>, <a href="http://www.style.com/slideshows/2013/peopleparties/parties/050613_2013_Met_Gala/105m.jpg">Kate Upton</a>, <a href="http://www.style.com/slideshows/2013/peopleparties/parties/050613_2013_Met_Gala/165m.jpg">Stacy Keibler</a>
and <a href="http://www.style.com/slideshows/2013/peopleparties/parties/050613_2013_Met_Gala/116m.jpg">Jimmy Fallon</a> got to bask in Gwyneth's reflected glory, while all she got
was heat rash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worse, the acting, award-winning,
blogging, Spanish-speaking-friend-of-Mario-Batali, model-thin and internally-cleansed
Gwyneth was upstaged by Kim "Famous for Nothing" Kardashian. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even worse, the Fashion Police didn't like
her dress, or the dress she wore the previous week at the Iron Man
premiere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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we get to the dress:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Valentino, pink,
totally covered up (unlike the butt-baring premiere monstrosity) except for a
net window on the breast bone, and boring. <strong><em>Can this look be fixed?</em></strong> Yes, with jewelry. Lots of it.</span><br />
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The title of this post isn't another weight joke about the pregnant Kim K (although heaven knows I could make one, and probably will), it actually refers to the definition of the term, which is "the amount of fissile material needed to maintain a nuclear chain reaction." In other words, if there's critical mass, there's a bomb, and it didn't me take more than one photo Kim in her flowered monstrosity to conclude that she landed on the Met Gala red carpet with the impact of the Fat Man, a famously big bomb.</div>
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Now you're probably thinking that a woman, especially a pregnant woman, shouldn't be criticized for the size of body and how she chooses to cover it. I absolutely agree, except when that woman is a full-time player in the red-carpet celebrity game and basically getting paid just to look good. Really, with nothing to do except to maintain her alleged hotness, and access to the loan or gift of the finest fashion, Kim chooses to appear at the biggest fashion event of the year dressed like grandma's divan?</div>
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This floral disaster got Kimmy more attention than Madonna's <a href="http://www.style.com/slideshows/2013/peopleparties/parties/050613_2013_Met_Gala/047m.jpg">pantsless look</a>, or Uma Thurman looking like a couture Poison Ivy:</div>
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And now I'm left to wonder why, given the heat generated by the dancers on Glee, does the singing midget get all the attention from fashion magazines? I'm refering to Lea Michele, who, among other things, was on the cover of the September issue of Harper's Bazaar. In close-up, heaven help us. Interesting issue of Bazaar, btw: it included articles about Michele Bachman and the Duchess of Windsor, and a feature devoted to the fashion of Margaret Thatcher. Maybe the editors thought they'd balance things out by putting a Jewish girl on the cover? Anyhoo . . .<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Lea Michele in Marchesa -- What. Ever</em></strong>. During the preshow, Kelly Osborne said that she asked Marchesa to loan her a dress, but they refused, saying that they were only going to dress one actress for the Emmys. Well, there were two, Lea and Elizabeth Moss. Whose nose should be out of joint? If it's Lea, how could we tell?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Dianna Agron in Roksanda Ilincic -- A Spelling Challenge</em></strong>. Dianna always looks like she borrowed her clothes from a 50-year-old WASP society matron. Apparently, Dianna goes to the matron's hairdresser as well. Her outfit is too old, too blue, too wrinkled, in short, a material crime against a beautiful young woman.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Heather Morris in Masai Payan -- Sorry, Heather, You're Out</em></strong>. I love Heather Morris, I love the character she plays on Glee. BUT! This dress -- it looks like something a Project Runway contestant would make for an "avant garde" couture challenge where the only material allowed is toilet paper. And on top of it all she's got a hair Tsunami. Oh, no, honey, just . . . no. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Jayma Mays in Zuhair Murad -- So Sweet My Teeth Hurt.</em></strong> On Glee, Jayma's character is afflicted by <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InnocenceVirginOnStupidity">Innocence Virgin on Stupidity</a>. Someone needs to tell her she doesn't need to dress that way in real life.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Jenna Ushkowitz in Gadah Paris -- Props for Originality</em></strong>. Jenna took a chance, and it's -- okay. It is nice to see something that's not the same old strapless mermaid/one shouldered red yadda yadda, but once again, this look rather old for her. Still, nice try.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Amber Riley in Unknown -- Talk About Old!</em></strong> When I first saw Amber in this dress, I thought "she must have gone shopping in her grandmother's closet." Then I realized that her grandmother would probably be about my age, and I wouldn't have something like this in my closet. It reminds me of the dresses my heavier aunts used to wear to Italian weddings in the 1980s. Who did this too poor Amber?</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-5846818551587727102011-09-19T17:11:00.000-07:002011-09-20T17:08:41.626-07:0063rd Emmy Awards -- once you go black . . .<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">No surprises here – there were lots of strapless mermaid dresses, again, lots of one-shoulder dresses, again, and lots of pale pale actresses wearing pale pales dresses, again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh will they never learn?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As usual, the A-list actresses got the A-list dresses and, for the most part, looked the best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were, however, a lot of lesser-known designers represented on the runway, including Tony Ward Couture, Johanna Johnson, Romona Keveza, and Kaufmanfranco, with greater or lesser success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">The trendiest color on the red carpet was red, which is a continuation of the trend set at the 2011 Academy Awards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Even red-haired Kathy Griffin wore <a href="http://l.yimg.com/k/im_siggrg0ba944oCnPtqgdR8MHbg---y626-x495-q75-n1/omg/us/img/67/10/1423601441_6341498392.jpg">a red Oscar de la Renta</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (Speaking of hair, there should be a special prize for Good Looks Ruined by Bad Hair.) <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">But when I picked out my favorite looks, almost all of them were black, and here they are:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Naya Rivera in Lloyd Klein -- Take THAT Lea Michele</em></strong>. My favorite look of the event. It's simple, retro, and sizzling hot. I would have liked it worn slightly fuller hair and darker lips, but that's quibbling, and even I shouldn't quibble with fabulous.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Maria Menounos -- It's a Mystery. </em></strong>Pictures of Maria wearing her sparkling dress are posted all over the internet, but I haven't found one with a caption that identifies the designer, poor dear. Unfair, considering that this dress, like Naya's, is simple, retro, and hot, and more fashionable than the very similar dress Elie Saab dress worn by Evan Rachel Wood. Whoever you are, dear designer, stand up and take a bow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Christine Baranski in Zac Posen -- Hotness for Grown-ups. </em></strong>I had already sorted this picture into my black beauties files when I read that it's actually midnight blue. Whatever. What excites me about this little number is that it's got sleeves, and it's still hot! Of course, it helps that it's worn by a tall woman with a dancer's body, but even tall and gorgeous can go wrong. (Are you listening, Nicole?) Good job, Christine.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Evan Rachel Wood in Elie Saab -- I Didn't Know She Could Sing. </em></strong>Slick and pretentious. Yeah, I could see Veda Pierce in this dress.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Gretchen Mol in L'Wren Scot -- the KISS Principal at Work</em></strong>. Her management and Vanity Fair Magazine have been trying to sell the baby-faced Gretchen Mol as a sex bomb for at least 15 years. Bomb? No. Very nice looking? Yes. Needs a necklace? Definitely.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Kaley Cuoco in Romona Keveza -- Give it up for Tea Length!</em></strong> Young and cute, but she should have gone all the way and added a crinoline. Dare to be, uh, daring!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Kelly MacDonald in Unknown -- Good Dress, Bad, Bad Hair</em></strong>. On days when she was going to do heavy duty cleaning, my mother would put her hair up in pin curls, tie a scarf around it, and get to work. When she was done, she'd take off the scarf, comb-out her hair, change her dress and put on some make-up. Looking at this picture I can only assume that Kelly didn't have time for the comb-out before she left her house, but her toilets are really clean.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Gwyneth Paltrow in Pucci -- It Looked Better on TV</em></strong>. I was really impressed when I saw Gwyneth approaching the tiny Seacrest wearing this; it seemed unique and daring. In the still photos, it makes her look like she has a slight muffin top. So we can conclude this dress would have looked better as a one piece. Consider it, Pucci.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-54603029265090523662011-09-18T16:26:00.000-07:002011-09-18T16:26:46.002-07:00I'm baaaaaaaaaaack.<span style="font-family: Arial;">Before my blogging was so rudely interrupted by work, the serial release of new volumes in four Fantasy/SciFi series I follow (reading each new volume requires a reread of the previous volumes, which in the case of A Song of Ice & Fire means a 4,000 page review) and, most importantly, my quadrennial nervous breakdown and medication adjustment, I was writing about New York Fashion Week and the Fall 2011 collections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even had carefully organized files of photos illustrating trends for discussion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, screw that, because my head has cleared enough for me to start writing again . . .</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">at the end of New York Fashion Week for Spring 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've said it before, and I'll say it again – It's always Fashion Week Month somewhere.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But before I write about any of that nonsense, if I do, here's some Clothes on TV commentary:</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Project Runway Season Who Gives a Damn </span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There has always been an undercurrent of misogyny and ageism circulating among the mostly young gay male contestants on PR, but this year those particular evils are front and center thanks to a contestant named Josh Overpluckshiseyebrows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I already know that Mr. Overplucked is going to be among the finalists, or perhaps even win, but it really makes no damn difference, because, given the season timing, all nine of the remaining contestants got to show at fashion week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In seasons past I've looked at the fashion week photos, this year, I dislike most of the contestants and find their clothes boring and frankly, m'dear, I don't give a damn.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Rachel Zoe Project</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rachel's back, with her husband, but without Brad Gorecki, who, it must be said, was the real star of that show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we're left with what must be the whiniest couple in fashion/showbiz, and with Rachel pregnant, there is just soooo much more to whine about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next episode is the pregnant Rachel styling women for the Oscars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I may watch that episode on mute.</span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Amsale Girls</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Amsale Girls is WE TV's wedding gown series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It supposed to be about the women working at the Amsale boutique on Madison Avenue in New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boutique is elegant, the gowns even more so: no see-through corset gowns here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amsale gowns average about $5,000, and according to a blurb on wetv.com, can cost as much as $75,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, all that good taste produces very little drama, and the show is rather boring.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Say Yes to the Dress, and Say Yes to the Dress – Atlanta.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bad taste, tacky gowns, petulant brides, mothers-from-hell, jealous sisters, bitchy bridesmaids, what more can one ask for?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now, these are my favorite fashion TV show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank gawd there's something I can depend on.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Live from the Red Carpet, the Umpty-tump Emmy Awards</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Very relaxing show – I feel free to get up and fill my bird feeders, consider caulking my windows, water my container garden, wonder why the holy hell anyone would remake <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mildred Pierce</i></b>, and thank goodness for DVRs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I can fast forward through the many interviews with men (and it seems like ONLY men are stopping to talk to the skeletal Giuliana and the miniature Seacrest), rewind for a glimpse of some of the few interesting dresses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, another boring broadcast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I keep watching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does that say about me?</span></div>Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-29777893716683206292011-04-29T17:11:00.000-07:002011-04-29T17:17:26.515-07:00The Dress -- Not great, but just grand.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0keNuReONN1zHbjlIpGyuV7BVUOgfXcvS0yzr1jlSEFKNC43fES6sXKYWeCV1ymWmYHm3DXrp2SWde0IG55uXpeTKyDao48Vj3wuNJYepZFlWmlfmPjiHOTMkblFy4JYoFDB0/s1600/29_royalwedding_katedress2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0keNuReONN1zHbjlIpGyuV7BVUOgfXcvS0yzr1jlSEFKNC43fES6sXKYWeCV1ymWmYHm3DXrp2SWde0IG55uXpeTKyDao48Vj3wuNJYepZFlWmlfmPjiHOTMkblFy4JYoFDB0/s400/29_royalwedding_katedress2.jpg" width="363" /></a></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em>Kate Middleton wearing a Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen dress</em></td></tr>
</tbody></table>And oh, so tasteful: no boobs, no bling, no damn fit-and-flare. Pre-royal wedding, your average "<a href="http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/say-yes-to-the-dress">Say Yes to the Dress</a>" shopper probably wouldn't even try on a similar dress. Simon Doonan <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2292419">wrote</a> that the royal wedding could usher in a "whole new era of elegant restraint" and put a temporary end to "porno-chic." Unlikely, given the Kardashian-media complex, but we can hope that at least a few bimbos out there in celebrity land will get a clue and start wearing dresses long enough to prevent the spread of crotch-rot. <br />
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Ahem. Yes. Back to the dress: in the black center of my heart-of-hearts I was hoping that Kate would wear something completely cracked-out,thus inspiring decades of brides to march down the aisle wearing, say, sequined Crocs, cowboy hats and 80's style mini-poufs, all for my amusement. The better part of me wanted her to wear something very modern and minimal, bordering on Tilda wear, that fashion and clothes bloggers could argue about for ages. But Kate, an obviously a smart, and even calculating, young woman, chose a dress that no one could complain about. Reportedly, even the hyper-critical Karl Lagerfeld liked it. May the rest of her choices as a royal be as successful, to the undoing of the tabloid press.<br />
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Oh, and I lurve the tiara. There's no garment that can't be made better by some honking big genuine jewels.<br />
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Now I wish I had a piece of carrot cake. Weddings do that to me.Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-52037623864721123212011-04-13T10:47:00.000-07:002011-04-13T10:47:41.055-07:00Two more reasons to hate hair extensions . . .<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-73909256004419913192011-03-01T12:39:00.000-08:002011-03-01T12:50:50.272-08:00Oscars 2011 -- Back in BlackSo I watched the E!'s Oscar special Fashion Police and TVGN's Red Carpet Review last night and learned that the paid fashion critics and I disagree about almost every dress worn, in particular Amy Adam's dark blue sequined column dress.<br />
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</tbody></table>They all hated the cap sleeves and high neck, and hated that she wore jewelry over an already sparkly dress. Well, to heck with them, I think she looked great. I love the dress, which I call maximum minimalism, and I thought the jewelry was to die for. Carved emeralds, for pete's sake, how could those EVER be bad? I deplore the current absence of jewelry on the red carpet regulars -- for heaven's sake, it's not like they're <strong><em>paying</em></strong> for it! Then I woke this morning to the <a href="http://www.stephaniemiller.com/">Stephanie Miller Show</a>, and heard one of her cohorts, Jim Ward, saying that he was tired of hearing gay men criticising women's clothing, because "they didn't like her necklace; what the hell's wrong with them? She's beautiful!" So THERE!<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Moving right along: if you look at the <a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/F2011RTW/NYC">Fall 2011 New York collections</a>, you'll see that black is not only basic, it's practically all there is: black is the new black. So instead of saying that the ladies on the Oscar 2011 red carpet were playing it safe by dressing in black, you could say that they're on trend, fashion forward, ahead of the curve. Whatevah, the result was the usual, with some of them looking great, and some of them looking absolutely frightening. Observe:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Camilla Alves in Kauffman Franco: Perfect. </em></strong>Camilla Alves was at the Academy Awards with her husband, Mathew McConaughey. He was only presenting an award, she was only his plus one, never the less, she stole the show. Her backless, practically frontless, full skirted black dress should go down in history as one of the best black dresses, EVAH. It shows everything without showing anything, because it fits perfectly. Of course, it doesn't hurt that the person wearing it is absolutely beautiful. I only wished she had filled some of that decolletage with a smashing necklace, <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZE250vHIH9c/TMW89SJFWyI/AAAAAAAAAFM/A22QTBdJIJU/s1600/Elizabeth-Taylor-la-peregrina-1.jpg">like so</a>. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Annette Bening in Naeem Khan: A Definite Maybe.</em></strong> Annette's art deco gown is hot off the Fall 2011 runway, but I can't make up my mind whether I like it or not. Maybe she needed firmer foundation garments so that the dress fell better, and she really needed some help with her A-list cropped hair. But at least the gown is interesting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Busy Phillips in vintage Pucci</em></strong>. It's a big ole taffetta number, and I love her in it. So sue me.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Cody Horn in . . . something</em></strong>. I own a dress very similar in cut and print to the dress Cody wore to the Oscars. I love my dress, I'll wear it until it falls apart, but I'm not sure it or anything similar is red carpet wear, particularly when accessorized with mesh fingerless gloves.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Sunrise Coigny in Jean Paul Gaultier: the Hunchback of Notre Dame. </em></strong>I love the sliver of gold on the side of Sunrise's dress, but I hate one-sleeve dresses with a passion hotter than the heat of a thousand suns. On the other hand, I love the name "Sunrise," so much better than that hackneyed "Dawn."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Sharon Stone in Dior: Mistress of the Dark.</em></strong> Looks like Sharon is daring someone to ask her about John Galliano, just fired by Dior for making anti-Semitic statements, or someone had just asked her about him, and she's getting ready to drink that person's blood. I'm real fond of vampires, so I congratulate Sharon for bringing the good crazy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Helena Bonham Carter in Colleen Atwood: Film Before Fashion. </em></strong>I saw Ryan Seacrest's red carpet interview with Helena, where she firmly put that omnipresent evil homunculus in his place. How can I not love her after that?<br />
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</tbody></table>Ain't done yet! Stay tuned for for comments on the remaining public fashion insanity.Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-38099199768497896062011-02-28T11:46:00.000-08:002011-03-01T08:24:14.409-08:00The Academy Awards 2011 -- high contrast competitionThere were two teams fighting it out on the Academy Awards red carpet Sunday afternoon: Team Pale and Team Red. Points were scored by both teams, but Team Pale dominated the field, in spite of the penalties racked up by Nicole Kidman and Melissa Leo. <br />
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On another note, the Hair Brassiere was not in play, since most of the Class A players are going short. It looks like players in the big show don't need any extra padding in their helmets. Or on their chests.<br />
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Here's a recap of the game:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Jennifer Lawrence in Calvin Klein Collection: Look at My Butt, Not at My Bustle. </em></strong>Team Red started the game when nominee Jennifer came out in a super minimal look. Can't say I was knocked out by the dress, but I was impressed by Jennifer's ability to wear it without showing lumps or bumps, which, I think, is the point of minimalist fashion: </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Hailee Steinfeld in Marchesa: She's 14, She's Beautiful, and She's Wearing Marchesa</em></strong>. Have I told y'all how much I love tea length full skirts? Well I do, and the length alone makes this dress for me. Otherwise it's a bit bland, especially compared to the <a href="http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/01/30/hailee-steinfeld-sag-awards-2011-red-carpet/">bangin' Prada dress</a> she wore to the SAG awards. I would have preferred this dress a shade darker, or a different color -- yellow, maybe, with gold embroidery? -- just to have her stand out from the crowd of other pale pink dresses.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Anne Hathaway in vintage Valentino Couture: Red Gone Wrong.</em></strong> Squished boobs, frumpy bustle, and matchin lipstick. All no-nos in my book. I wonder if the pregnant Rachel Zoe did her styling for Anne's multi-dress Oscar extravaganza? If so, that's going to make one hellava episode of the Rachel Zoe project.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Mandy Moore in Monique L'Hullier: Wake Me Up When It's Over.</em></strong> Mandy's dress looks like a bad version of Hailee Seinfeld's Marquesa; not terrible, just blah, which may be worse. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Sandra Bullock in Vera Wang: F*ck You, Jesse James and the Ho You Rode In On</em></strong>. Finally, a dress by a wedding gown designer that doesn't look bridal. In fact, Sandra's hot look is pure Jessica Rabbit. I love the two-layer bodice, although there's some obvious pull over the thighs. What was it with all the hobble skirts this year? Anyhoo, go Sandy!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Florence Welch in Valentino Haute Couture: Are Those My Mother's Curtains?</em></strong> Haute couture is wasted on Florence because she can't sell a look. Head up, shoulders back, and some chicken cutlets for your bra, girl! There is no slouching in high fashion! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Jennifer Hudson in Versace: She Didn't Get the Minimalist Memo.</em></strong> These big ole taffeta numbers are looking rather dated, aren't they? A simple column would have shown off Jennifer's great new figure better, and wouldn't have abused her bosom the way this gown does.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Michele Williams in Chanel Couture: She Got the Memo. </em></strong>I almost really love this dress, probably because I like the idea of formal t-shirt dresses. However, the center seam and the transparency annoy me.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Penelope Cruz in L'Wren Scott: Christmas in February</em></strong>. Some people really liked Penelope's dress, but I think it looks like a Christmas tree skirt you could pick up at the Dollar Store. She also needs more support. Sorry, I seem to be fixated on bosoms today, but it's hard to ignore them when they're unleashed <em>en masse.</em></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Hilary Swank in Gucci Premiere: We've Seen This Before.</em></strong> Servicable, but not exciting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Halle Berry in Marchesa: Reining in the Crazy.</em></strong> We've seen many variations on Halle's dress, but at least she doesn't look like a hooker or a crazy, bitter, separated single mother. She'd better be careful -- nasty custody fights can make a girl ugly.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Celine Dion in Armani Prive: She got the Minimalist Memo too</em></strong>. I think Celine's dress would have been really great if it had been let out a half inch on either side. As it is, it looks like Celine is trying too hard to show off her post-twins figure, and she got stuck with a hobble skirt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Gwyneth Paltrow: Almost Perfect</em></strong>. If Gwynie had just left off that weird little brooch at the waistline (more Christmas!), this would have been my favorite look. Le sigh.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Melissa Leo in Marc Bower: There Are No Words.</em></strong> Oh, yeah, maybe there are. Will "lace tablecloth" do? Or better "lace tablecloth on the Starship Enterprise." Oy, that collar!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Nicole Kidman: WTF? </em></strong>Ah, the beautiful Nicole Kidman: when she gets it right, she gets it very, very right (I still love that <a href="http://www.harpersbazaar.com/cm/harpersbazaar/images/hbz-nicole-kidman-4-de-77021695.jpg">chartreuse Dior</a> she wore, lo those many years ago), and when she gets it wrong, boy howdy, it is SO wrong (that gold spangled Tom Ford for YSL <a href="http://www.harpersbazaar.com/cm/harpersbazaar/images/hbz-nicole-kidman-13-de-8280763.jpg">flapper dress</a>, mercy!). Her 2011 Oscar gown has to be filed under WRONG. It's another table cloth. A used wrinkled cotton tablecloth turned into an ill-fitting dress that probably cost as much as a BMW X3. Oh, Nicole!<br />
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</tbody></table>Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-80560803960594526942011-02-27T15:05:00.000-08:002011-02-27T21:09:22.259-08:00Trends I don't like -- the Hair BrassiereSo I'm sitting here watching (sort of) E!'s Countdown to the Red Carpet, wishing some fashion guerilla would tackle Giuliana Rancic and shave her head, then force her to eat an In & Out Burger Double-Double. I'm also bracing myself for the hair extension abuse that certain stars and celebusluts inflict on their viewers. Look at these examples from the Grammy awards:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Miley Cyrus at the Grammy Awards</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8d1zpLPfcchkpCFO43HJ27U-caYuWqRXIs3DhwreucrM8Ihw2XXDpUIDGdD2z2Nw8ZhJFDCSfqk-cQY8EjH18tlqOHc0JPsbRggLBk7ijB8G1WjUsbyeoBCj8swAbnf-F3055/s1600/Jennifer+Lopez+Grammys+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8d1zpLPfcchkpCFO43HJ27U-caYuWqRXIs3DhwreucrM8Ihw2XXDpUIDGdD2z2Nw8ZhJFDCSfqk-cQY8EjH18tlqOHc0JPsbRggLBk7ijB8G1WjUsbyeoBCj8swAbnf-F3055/s400/Jennifer+Lopez+Grammys+2011.jpg" width="231" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jennifer Lopez at the Grammys</td></tr>
</tbody></table>They look like they're in bad <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Godiva">Lady Godiva</a> costumes, that is, they have the hair AND a dress. In Miley's case, she in fact may have been using her hair extensions to maintain her modesty, because she was <a href="http://www.411mania.com/music/news/174615">falling out of her dress</a>. Fake hair is no substitute for clothing. But other red carpet regulars are wearing their extra-long extensions swept forward over their bodices, and those extensions are often so loaded with product they look like the hair was glued to the dress. So tacky, so Jersey Shore (is that redundant?), not to mention an insult to the dress. For heaven's sake ladies, PUT UP YOUR HAIR, or better, CUT IT.Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-84587476604876215142011-02-14T10:53:00.000-08:002011-02-14T11:16:22.089-08:00Oh. The Grammys. Right.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMTXmd42O5F7ocz-QhFZsZmTriMnclNbquk6XOSGjLnFfJTKnrbdNIEArADy03sOcEswX-UID2-lNvIRT1m919CUT7Nbr8_yGZG9T-BUF29g0FW25bi8s5new6hTTTfkQMZt6/s1600/Rihanna+Grammy%2527s+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMTXmd42O5F7ocz-QhFZsZmTriMnclNbquk6XOSGjLnFfJTKnrbdNIEArADy03sOcEswX-UID2-lNvIRT1m919CUT7Nbr8_yGZG9T-BUF29g0FW25bi8s5new6hTTTfkQMZt6/s400/Rihanna+Grammy%2527s+2011.jpg" width="275" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Rihanna</em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table>So I attempted to watch the Grammys red carpet show yesterday -- I got as far as Lady Gaga's appearance in her egg, and I turned it off. Girlfriend soooooooo needs to get over herself. And there's something wrong about an event where the women appear dressed in cracked out couture and the men appear dressed in <a href="http://awards.music.yahoo.com/photos/113-red-carpet-arrivals/1#OmgPhoid=71">early thriftstore</a>. Why bother with the parlor line-up for this event? There's no rock-n-roll fashion any more, country stars are trying too hard to wear capital F fashion (even though you can still tell they're country singers from a mile away), and all the R & B stars are trying to compete with Rihanna. Rihanna, btw, won the OMG, She Naked! award, so everyone else should have just stayed home, especially all those people who show up everywhere, like Kim Kardasian and Snooki. Eva Longoria? Why was she there? Heidi Klum? Where was Seal? What a cluster fug.<br />
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Complaints on record; just let me say that <a href="http://l.yimg.com/k/im_siggjSsFdMTwhUdyeP6GK74dLg---y626-x495-q75-n1/ygrammys/us/img/f8/39/1943977359_677786172.jpg">Jennifer Hudson</a> looked great, although I think she might be messing with her face a bit, WHICH SHE SHOULD NOT DO; don't know how much it cost <a href="http://l.yimg.com/k/im_siggPa3RK7oPoicptV4UXKifEA---y626-x495-q75-n1/ygrammys/us/img/4a/89/2217878600_10534854468.jpg">Kathy Griffin</a> to get her current body, but it was worth every penny (like the dress, too); and someone needs to get <a href="http://l.yimg.com/k/im_siggEVt_nA.t.8.fj5ZvWgoPIw---y626-x495-q75-n1/ygrammys/us/img/fd/8f/1347421925_10434071139.jpg">Giuliana Rancic</a> a plate of spaghetti and meatballs, STAT!<br />
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And that's enough of that.Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-24161157532282751022011-02-13T14:47:00.000-08:002011-02-13T14:47:00.867-08:00Fresh SqueezedThere's not much color in the Fall 2011 collections so far, but what color there is, is orange, ranging from tomato-soup to rust to full-on Sunkist orange. Looks good with all that black.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Costello Tagliapietra Fall 2011</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLCgskcqTJBNDtvd_9FD6GY0YKptta6tensMJ2neT8qla-Ajgk0JZ1BGSu-2jnTUPX5vFcBj32eAEj73q7HjPNwCo8hXRe8LcC6nfx75fH3yZxhYmTbUz3T8_SnquOpDR1nFgZ/s1600/Cynthia+Rowley+Fall+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLCgskcqTJBNDtvd_9FD6GY0YKptta6tensMJ2neT8qla-Ajgk0JZ1BGSu-2jnTUPX5vFcBj32eAEj73q7HjPNwCo8hXRe8LcC6nfx75fH3yZxhYmTbUz3T8_SnquOpDR1nFgZ/s400/Cynthia+Rowley+Fall+2011.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cynthia Rowley Fall 2011</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jill Stuart 2011</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPPEGBg85xwZWve6ZXCuWUgFae35PadgFhIYbT922Ng_zunMqEypWTctAOcC4boMu0xyW87fy07uUqX_Vz1gSjFYuGt6pK7e1lMFnZyrBuvEjkaIkXwqgpaGETBc2T0Lgyk6gh/s1600/Rachel+Zoe+Fall+2011-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPPEGBg85xwZWve6ZXCuWUgFae35PadgFhIYbT922Ng_zunMqEypWTctAOcC4boMu0xyW87fy07uUqX_Vz1gSjFYuGt6pK7e1lMFnZyrBuvEjkaIkXwqgpaGETBc2T0Lgyk6gh/s400/Rachel+Zoe+Fall+2011-2.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rachel Zoe Fall 2011</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXM-s_GOAgIQjoeQNLM0ZSTIzKmY7QvcDuVJa4se0dQX8ohjo2iZU2QR5yO3xF0O3ikzKXEZuHwYZjXp7mg81c5KfgrrsKevOzXhgCNIhhQLTmX0mbMRzalQmZKZg_jCqnubg8/s1600/Threeasfour+Fall+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXM-s_GOAgIQjoeQNLM0ZSTIzKmY7QvcDuVJa4se0dQX8ohjo2iZU2QR5yO3xF0O3ikzKXEZuHwYZjXp7mg81c5KfgrrsKevOzXhgCNIhhQLTmX0mbMRzalQmZKZg_jCqnubg8/s400/Threeasfour+Fall+2011.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Threeasfour Fall 2011 </td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghsDuUNcM2eI2R3Z46_lKYKB4YtLDk5j6ZMcrB_9hZ3pUSksn-e_ZiHj2fRo59kjjoSYS6PNi1K50mh88eHJewZDcxdcWtK7bYYh2NwPa9JlXP_gVutTC-NgYXcV8vOpSwKX1L/s1600/Victoria+Beckham+Fall+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghsDuUNcM2eI2R3Z46_lKYKB4YtLDk5j6ZMcrB_9hZ3pUSksn-e_ZiHj2fRo59kjjoSYS6PNi1K50mh88eHJewZDcxdcWtK7bYYh2NwPa9JlXP_gVutTC-NgYXcV8vOpSwKX1L/s400/Victoria+Beckham+Fall+2011.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Victoria Beckham Fall 2011</td></tr>
</tbody></table>I guess if you can't sit by the fire, you might as well wear it!Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-3778850359783602352011-02-11T17:34:00.000-08:002011-02-13T14:28:44.223-08:00Another opening, another showGuess what!!! Another month of Fashion Weeks is upon us. Seems like just yesterday we were (or maybe just I was) looking at the Pre-Fall collections. Well now it's full-on Fall 2011 in Fashionland. The New York shows are first, and the first collections are usually from smaller and and more avant garde houses. These are the collections that set the trends, and the trends this season are: covered-up (sleeves, yeaaa!!!), grunge (flannel, yea?), and unisex. Lots of pants and longer skirts, few dresses, no glamour and noooooooooo sex. Oh, what will our red carpet divas and celebri-sluts wear? With not a princess moment in sight, will Rachel Zoe really go bananas? Doubtful -- there's always going to be some sequin queen out there sewing up the usual, but boy, I'd pay good money to see some gal appear on the red carpet in flannel. <br />
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Here's a sampling. You can see complete collections at <a href="http://style.com/">Style.com</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BCBG Max Azria</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8tBUo3uBBx8s-Nu6gyUA1YWKYJofICZ60YSWU2u2tTLClONtKLplR6VD6vmr90tHCE6sXnipWSf7IfolQAhu-zmPj7b9832BP_LoTbRDRalXMyyHp2EoUx0Tc5Fy6iweJRQre/s1600/Christian+Siriano+Fall+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8tBUo3uBBx8s-Nu6gyUA1YWKYJofICZ60YSWU2u2tTLClONtKLplR6VD6vmr90tHCE6sXnipWSf7IfolQAhu-zmPj7b9832BP_LoTbRDRalXMyyHp2EoUx0Tc5Fy6iweJRQre/s400/Christian+Siriano+Fall+2011.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christian Siriano</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdG82YOT75b0WqCYX39wg9SNB5Jgiaj9DPRI9e_xNGTvjw1-rSXcAzgQh2QNJ9D8PJS-p6Hr5PgIboS2ML28d1eKHZ-HPxYoeZn8fdHMP2CNs2pGWcu2Wc6qORhrMhkykzCN5c/s1600/Jenni+Kayne+Fall+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdG82YOT75b0WqCYX39wg9SNB5Jgiaj9DPRI9e_xNGTvjw1-rSXcAzgQh2QNJ9D8PJS-p6Hr5PgIboS2ML28d1eKHZ-HPxYoeZn8fdHMP2CNs2pGWcu2Wc6qORhrMhkykzCN5c/s400/Jenni+Kayne+Fall+2011.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jennie Kayne</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8bnBatddMmv1p_DcWTIhA_A9E8jFZfsVUYEXl_9rZ5Um5I4zIWKbTOXUjRAxV59N-ALwSr2dPklbc-UEGCAed4zO4rjgJQBK12aa4FHx2T5WAI8JmWo0LCU8obyoL-ppVQd1/s1600/Luca+Luca+Fall+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8bnBatddMmv1p_DcWTIhA_A9E8jFZfsVUYEXl_9rZ5Um5I4zIWKbTOXUjRAxV59N-ALwSr2dPklbc-UEGCAed4zO4rjgJQBK12aa4FHx2T5WAI8JmWo0LCU8obyoL-ppVQd1/s320/Luca+Luca+Fall+2011.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luca Luca</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lyn Devon</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpFgwAna391KbOEl3zybehmlXmwG993vgnyVh-vvVZsijc5tPOPFXTU9DweCaNLg89m-d_z4uKt8aDUrOIqgq7K1MQ7quq13A0-rqYtEYJLtRg3giiB5IGwANbBQvWZchBQ8E/s1600/Norma+Kamali+Fall+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpFgwAna391KbOEl3zybehmlXmwG993vgnyVh-vvVZsijc5tPOPFXTU9DweCaNLg89m-d_z4uKt8aDUrOIqgq7K1MQ7quq13A0-rqYtEYJLtRg3giiB5IGwANbBQvWZchBQ8E/s400/Norma+Kamali+Fall+2011.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Norma Kamali</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2o9UNv2yzpoA5YQgVlncwZURhxyB0TVXKV-UqPn_oismrIWL_te0W2LZyhmvyzozc8qRCk6B76z1fr8JF30G8Pxj9ORqIJRND2_ErFY3zPP139T0MtMiNvRZb4oRMPL1OHE-9/s1600/Peter+Som+Fall+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2o9UNv2yzpoA5YQgVlncwZURhxyB0TVXKV-UqPn_oismrIWL_te0W2LZyhmvyzozc8qRCk6B76z1fr8JF30G8Pxj9ORqIJRND2_ErFY3zPP139T0MtMiNvRZb4oRMPL1OHE-9/s400/Peter+Som+Fall+2011.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Som</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tess Giberson -- I WANT this sweater.</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>These designs, while not necessarily flattering, look cuddly and warm. Were the New York designers influenced by the snowy weather, or is flesh just out of fashion?Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-34911214699430668572011-02-02T11:59:00.000-08:002011-02-02T11:59:04.207-08:00Shopping alert<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.mytheresa.com/shop/LACE-COCKTAIL-DRESS-p-15957.html">Mark Jacobs lace dress available at MyTheresa.com</a></em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left">SAG-related shopping alert. You can buy this retro lace dress, worn by Helena Bonham Carter in a half-hearted attempt at normality, for a mere E4910, which is about $6,000.00 American. I'd say save some money and buy this variation on the theme by Proenza Schouler,</div><div align="left"><br />
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</div><div align="left">which I think would be more flattering and is a mere E1398. Or you could save lots and lots and lots of money and get this lace dress,</div><div align="left"><br />
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</tbody></table></div>which is possibly more flattering than both of the high-priced choices above, and is currently on sale for $132. Ah, bargain hunting. It's a good thing.Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-43715887865910098102011-01-31T16:51:00.000-08:002011-01-31T16:51:52.091-08:00Lip trauma <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Paz de la Huerta in Twenty Cluny and scary makeup</em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table> Having the attention span of a gnat, I'm already bored with the whole SAG fashion thing and wasn't going to write any more about it. Then I saw this picture of Paz de la Huerta and I had a flashback to days gone by when I spent hours doing my makeup just. so. The whole routine included cover-up, foundation (always something expensive, it does work better), three shades of eye-shadow (medium shade on the lid, dark in the hollow, highlight on the brow), two shades of blush (dark in the hollow, bright on the apple of the cheek). Gawd, I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Then the look was finished off with lip liner and lipstick in various shades of maroon, oxblood, and brown. Especially brown. I thought I was the bomb. Bomb victim, more like.<br />
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I do, however, really Paz' dress, but the matching lipstick should be saved for Halloween.Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-39362496790962252222011-01-30T22:34:00.000-08:002011-01-30T22:40:56.722-08:00SAG Awards 2011 -- down-hearted, depressed and in a spin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Helena Bonham Carter in Marc Jacobs</em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left">Helena Bonham Carter looks bored and depressed in this picture. I feel her pain. The SAG Award red carpets are usually interesting, but usual is not always, and this was a complete snooze-fest. Even the ugly was boring. But hell, I'm going to post some pictures anyway.</div><div align="left"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Christina Hendricks in L'Wren Scott. I give her props for wearing a bathrobe; comfort is a wonderful thing.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Diana Agron in Chanel. She looks like she was playing dress-up in her grandmother's closet. She and January Jones would probably get it right if after they picked dresses for an event, they swapped. Except for this event, where they both got it wrong.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Natalie Portman in Azzaro. The commentators were happy she was showing her bump. I think she could have bumped better.</em></strong> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Jane Lynch in Ali Rahmi. Enough with the ball gowns. The divine Ms. Lynch needs to be Swinton-ized.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Kara Mara in Herve Leger. Oy. And vey.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Melissa Leo in Randi Rham. Tight, long and shiny looks cheap too.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>January Jones in Chanel. From burlesque queen to dowager duchess in a week. I think I liked the fringed look better, at least she looked like she could sit down in it.</em></strong></td></tr>
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</div>Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-63573730808378026272011-01-29T17:13:00.000-08:002011-01-29T17:15:36.613-08:00Clothes in Books: a thousand days of magic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOZjeGLnRIX-F4BUQNwuwrutIbLbtYtjeZMXIRrcB68YYVxASL7rx27RkcAr_oHuD88euoCWFMsSdHwdYfd2okSBXoxYUo2ut_smdmAHrHmhvOv76_99aYXMALP2__FER4snu3/s1600/cassini%252520book%2525202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOZjeGLnRIX-F4BUQNwuwrutIbLbtYtjeZMXIRrcB68YYVxASL7rx27RkcAr_oHuD88euoCWFMsSdHwdYfd2okSBXoxYUo2ut_smdmAHrHmhvOv76_99aYXMALP2__FER4snu3/s320/cassini%252520book%2525202.jpg" width="267" /></a></div><br />
This is a glossy coffee table book full of great photos of early-60s minimalist fashion designed (or some say, copied) by Oleg Cassini. But as far as I'm concerned, the photos aren't the best part, the letters from Mrs. K (later Mrs. O) are. From the letters, it's easy to see why Jacqueline Kennedy is considered one of the best dressed First Ladies ever; she sure knew her mind when it came to clothes.<br />
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Take this letter from February 1961:<br />
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<em>Now for Spring, let's get 1 beautiful wool suit -- bright color, 1 with reversible jacket, a daytime tailored coat, wool, but not too heavy -- to wear over anything -- maybe pale yellow fleece or gray? Three daytime linen or shantung [dresses] one with a jacket, one with nothing, one with a coat? Or maybe two with jackets? O three dressier afternoon dresses 2 pc shantung with straw hat, white with black polka dots, another not too decollete, 1 flowered chiffon for garden party or short evening, 1 lace dress with matching coat, another fabulous long evening dress. What will I wear over the straw one and ribbed organdie when I go out -- stole? nothing? Send me sketches then I'll be set till fall, except for a couple of Summer things to wear at the cape . . .</em><br />
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I don't think military campaigns are planned in such detail. Other correspondence makes it obvious why these letters weren't published until after the former First Lady's death. Like this one, dated December 31, 1960, giving Cassini his initial instructions via a numbered list of orders:<br />
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<em>6) I seem to be all set for evening. Now would you put your brillian mind to work for day -- coats -- dresses for public appearances -- lunch & afternoon that I would wear if Jack were President of FRANCE --très <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian,_Princess_of_R%C3%A9thy">Princesse de Rethy</a> mais jeune . . . </em><br />
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<em>7) PUBLICITY -- One reason I am so happy to be working with you is that I have some control overy my fashion publicity which has gotten so vulgarly out of hand . . .</em><br />
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<em>8) COPIES -- Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do -- the same color or material -- Imagine you will want to put some of my dresses in your collection -- but I want all mine to be original and no fat little women hopping around in the same dress. You know better than I how to protect ourself against other manufacturers running up cheap copies-- I really don't care what happens later as long as when I wear it first it is new & the only one in the room . . .</em><br />
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<em>9) Plan to stay for dinner every time you come to D.C. with sketches -- & amuse the poor President & his wife in that dreary Maison Blanche . . .</em><br />
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Not too much of a snob, was she?<br />
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Pity later First Ladies, who had to buy their clothes off the runway, if not off the rack. And can you imagine if any political wife in the past 20 years wrote a letter with the phrase <em>"fat little women hopping around in the same dress . . .?" </em> Or saying she wanted to dress like the First Lady of *gasp!* France???? The letter (more likely e-mail) would probably be leaked to TMZ, or show up on Wikileaks, and political disaster would follow. How times have changed.Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-73446745105591677122011-01-28T15:22:00.000-08:002011-01-28T22:32:08.092-08:00Clothes on Film: The DamnedIt came to pass, one rainy Sunday in 1969, that my parents took me to see an X-rated film, Luchino Visconti's The Damned. I don't know how we wound up going to that particular film, because at the time the females in the family were still going to church and we'd been taking the Legion of Decency pledge. That's the promise Catholics used to make, out loud and during mass, to avoid naughty movies. We sure fell off the wagon by seeing The Damned.<br />
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<div align="left"></div><div align="left">The film has been variously described as an engrossing work of art, a kinky soap opera, a dazzling, bold movie, and an "extravaganza of incest and corruption." Lord knows, the film earned its 1969 X-rating – I don't think I've seen another film in last 41 years hence (damn, I'm old) that contains all off the following: nudity (male and female), cross-dressing, pedophilia (incestuous and anti-Semitic), homosexual orgies, murder (individual and mass), drug-addiction, suicide (child and adult), mother-raping and father-stabbing, (Arlo Guthrie reference, for you young 'uns), artistically blood-laced bodies of naked men, and lots and lots of preternaturally blond and handsome Nazis doing very nasty things.</div><div align="left"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Charlotte Rampling as Elizabeth Thallman</em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">But never mind the Nazis and the perversions, what I remember most from my first viewing of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Damned</i> was the appearance, not more than 10 minutes into the film, of the divine Charlotte Rampling in full, authentic, 30s hair and makeup, and my mother grabbing my hand in excitement and saying "A finger wave!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to do finger waves when I was a hairdresser!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What followed was two hours of whispered comments about hair, clothes and decor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, so taken was I by the wardrobe that many years later when I got my hands on a DVD of the film and watched it, I found I had forgotten about the mother-raping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> However I had</span> not forgotten that the very bad Mommy made her first appearance in the film wearing a bias-cut black satin gown with a diamonte-trimmed cage back.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Ingrid Thulin as Sophie von Essenbeck, the very well-dressed very bad mommy</strong></em></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Let me put this in context so you can understand why my mother and I were so impressed by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Damned's</i> costuming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wardrobes in American period films made in the 50s and 60s were never authentic; actresses playing flappers appeared in bullet bras and lacquered bubble dos (see Doris Day in<em> </em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3579878656/tt0048317"><em>Love Me or Leave Me</em></a><em>) </em>and<em> </em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">depression-era women appeared in full-skirted shirt-dresses and pale pink lipstick (see Dorothy Malone in <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051055/">The Tarnished Angels</a></em>, one of the most ridiculous films ever made)</span><em>. </em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Authenticity was ignored even in WWII period movies, although all the Moms and Dads had lived through the War and all the kids could turn on the TV and watch <em>Casablanca</em>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(See Ingrid Thulin and, heaven help us, Yvette Mimieux, in <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054890/">The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></em>Ingrid Thulin went on to play the very bad Mommy in <em>The Damned</em>, where the hats alone made up for previous sins against fashion.)</span><em> </em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">As a Clothesaholic and a fan of 30s and 40s movies from kindergarten, I saw those crimes of anachronistic fashion and hated them.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Bad mommy in a fabulous hat.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">But boy howdy, that damned movie is great to look at:</span></span></span><br />
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<em>Visconti's insistence on authenticity of decor and costume has given rise to anecdotes of how he sent for white German sausages from Munich to be hung in the butcher's window in place of the pink Austrian variety, or how he insisted on replacing the carpeted floor of the dining-room set with the more authentic oak blocks which took five days to lay. Some of the clothes in the film are said to be originals of the period, others are seam for seam reproductions.</em><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>SEAM FOR SEAM REPRODUCTIONS! YES!</em></strong> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Helmut Berger as very bad son Martin von Essenbeck. He was also Visconti's lover, which probably explains the way his cheekbones were lit.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Helmut Griem as the very bad guy Aschenbach.</strong></em></td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 12pt 0in 0pt;"></div></div>Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-31224803783657272842011-01-24T22:21:00.000-08:002011-03-01T08:48:48.970-08:00The Real Housewives of Simplicity PatternsPattern envelopes often feature a sketch of the design and a photo of a model wearing the completed garment. Often the model's garment is fabulously sewn and styled, yielding a final photo so gorgeous that the shopping sewer just must have that pattern, even though she knows, in her heart of hearts, that she couldn't produce anything as fabulous. But that's not the case with Simplicity patterns in the 1960s and 1970s, nooo. The garments in their pattern photos look like they were made up by home sewers who shopped for fabric at the local W.T. Grant's, and they're worn by dead-faced models or girls dragged out of the typing pool and thrust into wigs and polyester. Or zombies. Whatever, some of these photos are So Bad They're Good, and every picture tells a story. So here's the cast of Bravo's newest mysogynistic epic: the Real Housewives of Simplicity Patterns.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Bootsie:</em></strong> <strong><em>I have everything, and I want more</em></strong>. I always say what I think, no matter what, and that's because I'm totally honest, not because I'm going through menopause. Really, look at me, I'm 50-something and I'm still hot because I work out seven days a week and wear clothes that make my daughter cover her eyes in shame. Ah, my daughter! We're so close she doesn't mind if I micromanage every minute of her life, and she WILL be a great actress. Or maybe a supermodel, as long as she never looks better than I do. Be sure to catch me on QVC where I'll be selling the Bootsie collection of really big sunglasses.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Bunny: I want more, so I can have everything</em></strong>. I'm a strong, independent woman with a great career, which is a damn good thing because my husband, who rejoices in my independence in the hope that some day I'll return his balls, has been unemployed for two years. But we're working on our marriage, when I'm not out with the girls, that is. There's nothing I love like a girl's night out, preferably in another state. Hey, it's not my fault that all my friends are married to domineering jerks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Lady Baba: I am everything, and I'll be more. </em></strong>I'm not a housewife, I'm a divorced wife. But you don't have to be married to a man to get his love and support, especially when you're in the adult entertainment industry. When I'm not making sex tapes, I sing, give lectures on etiquette, demand apologies from everybody, and act as Bunny's protective best friend. And if Bootsie doesn't stop calling me a whore I'm going to snatch her bald headed. From her knees up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Bitsy: I got nothing, and I guess that's everything</em></strong>. I'm the token broke, overweight(comparatively), drug and/or alcohol-dependent doormat who always says the wrong thing and gets gang-bashed by the other hos, er, housewives. Even though I'm dumb as a box o' rocks, I'm the only person with an ounce of human kindness on the show, and so I'm the least popular ho. Housewife.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Balsey: More is everything. </em></strong>I'm different. I'm the rich BRUNETTE bitch. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Camille: I'll cut a bitch</em>.</strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table>And so life goes on, in the the Simplicity Pattern hills . . .Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-40850387072585375262011-01-23T18:00:00.000-08:002011-01-23T18:08:17.360-08:00The sexy 70s at Posh Vintage<a href="http://www.poshvintage.com/prod_cats.cfm">Posh Vintage</a> is the only online vintage retailer I know that specializes in 1970s clothing, in particular, the super-sexy Halston-inspired disco/rock star girlfriend jersey dresses that I, who last had a 32 inch bust at age 10, could only dream of wearing. But I love to look, and I love to share, and I urge all my hardbodied readers (trans: no support or smoothing needed) to consider buying one. But keep in mind that many of these dress are not only backless, almost frontless, and clingy, but also translucent. Please avoid manties as a solution to the see-through problem.<br />
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ANYHOO, Posh Vintage offers for sale so many super sexy etc. jersey dresses that I had a hard time chosing examples. Here's a sampling:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.poshvintage.com/prod_one.cfm?id=6926&srow1=24&isspan=0">Estevez, designer 70s jersey gown</a></em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.poshvintage.com/prod_one.cfm?id=6890&srow1=60&isspan=0"><strong><em>Another Estevez jersey gown</em></strong></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.poshvintage.com/prod_one.cfm?id=7333&srow1=12&isspan=0"><strong><em>70s Jean Varon goddess dress</em></strong></a><strong><em>. Jean Varon was the brand name of John Bates, who designed the costumes for the Avenger's Emma Peel. The man knew sexy. Follow the link to see all the angles.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.poshvintage.com/prod_one.cfm?id=7352&srow1=0&isspan=0"><strong><em>Radley of London moss crepe dress</em></strong></a><strong><em>. Ossie Clark designed for Radley, need I say more?</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.poshvintage.com/prod_one.cfm?id=5551&srow1_holder=0&catid_holder=0&catid=1020&search_term=Bernshaw">70s jersey dress by Bernshaw</a>. Fabulosity without the designer price tag.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.poshvintage.com/prod_one.cfm?id=7323&srow1=0&isspan=0">70s Byron of Athens jersey dress</a>. This dress looks like it was made yesterday, and could be worn forever.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.poshvintage.com/prod_one.cfm?id=6793&srow1=24&isspan=0"><strong><em>70s jersey goddess dress by Maria Maria</em></strong></a><strong><em>. Pretty color.</em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table>So while the current designers are doing goofy 70s, remember there's classic, hawt, 70s out there. Just keep away from Qiana, double-knit, and avocado green, and you'll find it.Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-47200237275630321802011-01-22T11:27:00.000-08:002011-01-22T11:42:28.699-08:00What SHOULD Tilda Swinton wear.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>La Swinton at the 2011 Golden Globes</em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table> Oh my children, I finally know what I want to do when I grow up, or maybe I should say I finally know the first item on my bucket list, because, damn, I'm old: I want to be Tilda Swinton's stylist. I reached this conclusion after seeing what she wore to the Golden Globes, which, while Swinton, was rather blandly Swinton, and worse, was very similar to <a href="http://gofugyourself.com/305551-12-2010">something Kate Bosworth wore</a> in December. That twain should never meet, even sartorially.<br />
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As her stylist, I could save Swinton from similar embarassments, and I'd scour the collections for spectacularly Swinton-esque looks, which shouldn't be too hard now that minimalism has made a comeback. And I promise I'd resist any urge to dress her in chain mail and have her make her entrance on a white charger, except for the occassional photo call at the Cannes Film Festival. Anyhoo, here are some looks I picked out from the recent collections that I think are totally Swinton i.e., guaranteed to make the fashion police stutter and bleed from their eyesockets.<br />
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<strong>Two pieces</strong>: I actually like the idea of formal separates, similar to those Swinton wore at the Golden Globes, but the following looks just offer MORE:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Alexis Mabile Spring 2011</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Theyskens Theory Spring 2011 (I'm very glad Olivier Theyskens is back!)</em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table>All of these looks emphasize Swinton's height and androgeny, and all of them are just different enough to puzzle, if not down-right dismay, red-carpet watchers. Can you imagine what they'd say about the Alexis Mabile look, that combines a man's button-down shirt with a wreath of bows over the wearer's lady-parts? ("She ought to make up her mind! Is she going to the office or to a strip-club?") Or that bright, bright yellow Giambattista Valli outfit? ("Oh my gawd, I thought the fire-department had arrived!") Hee hee hee!<br />
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<strong>Minimalism</strong>: Swinton often wears very stark outfits that stand out in the usual sea of fussy dresses. Lucky for her (and me, as her fantasy stylist), minimalism is a current trend, even though most celebrities haven't gotten the memo yet. Here are a few looks just perfect for very tall, angular ladies:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Calvin Klein Pre-Fall 2011</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Narcisco Rodriguez Pre-Fall 2011</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Reed Krakoff Pre-Fall 2011</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Zero + Maria Cornejo Pre-Fall 2011</em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table>There's no way someone like, say, <a href="http://gofugyourself.com/golden-globes-well-played-carpet-sofia-vergara-01-2011">Sophia Vergara</a> or <a href="http://gofugyourself.com/golden-globes-fug-or-fab-carpet-eva-longoria-01-2011">Eva Longoria</a> or any of the ordinary run of T & A celebrities would appear in these rather monastic outfits. Thus, these looks are perfect for La Swinton. No pandering to the baser instincts for her! But for those lighter moments, some minimalist designs come in bright colors and blinding prints:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Proenza-Schouler Pre-Fall 2011</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Vena Cava Spring 2011</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Etro Spring 2011</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Christopher Kane Resort 2011 (a tie-died jumpsuit, double whammy!)</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Duro Olowu Spring 2011</em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table>I lurve that pink Proenza Schouler dress, although it might be more Mila Kunis (who has the potential to be fabulously unconventional) than Swinton, although a change in the shoe might push the outfit Swinton-ward. The rust Vena Cava dress looks like something Isadora Duncan would wear for a performance, and I somehow feel that Duncan and Swinton are kindred spirits, although I'm sure Swinton would never wear an extra-long scarf while riding in an open car. As for the rest -- well, we know how the Fashion Police hate prints on the red carpet, and the resulting moaning and gnashing of teeth would completely justify the wearing of one of these boldly, uh, bold garments. But for something completely different, there's . . .<br />
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<strong>Goth:</strong> Swinton wears a lot of black, but I don't think she's ever gone completely Goth. It's about time she tried it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Nicole Miller Pre-Fall 2011 (actually La Swinton has worn <a href="http://gofugyourself.com/fug_or_fab_tilda_swinton0909-09-2010">something similar</a> to this dress, but I like the Miller version, so it's here.)</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Nina Ricci Pre-Fall 2011 (sometimes a girl just has to break out the ruffles.)</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Yoji Yamamoto Spring 2011 (absolutely to be worn with the combat boots.)</em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table>HA! Take THAT, short girls in red and emerald green!<br />
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<strong>The Maximal Dress:</strong> There's a scene in the movie <em><a href="http://moments-of-grace.blogspot.com/2008/03/orlando.html">Orlando</a>, </em>where Swinton appears as the newly-female Orlando <a href="http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/NY-AJ075_SWINTO_G_20100720172933.jpg">wearing</a> a powdered wig and big-skirted 18th century dress. Then, dressed like Marie Antoinette, she runs through a maze to escape an importunate suitor. It's one of my favorite scenes in a clothes-erific movie. (If I were a clothes designer, I'd do a collection based on <em>Orlando</em>, which starts in the Elizabethan era and ends in the 1920s.) Swinton deserves a big dress moment on the red carpet to shame the usual crowd of train-dragging midget divas and drive them into the shadows where they belong. Behold!!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Alexis Mabile Fall 2010 Couture ("give me your leather, take from me, my lace . . ." Please, any available diety, never let me see Don Henley in lace.)</strong></em></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Lavin Spring 2010</strong></em></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Victor & Rolf Spring 2010 (you want a white moment? THIS is a white moment.)</strong></em></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Christian Dior Fall 2010 Couture</em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table>I would exercise my stylist's perogative to have the one shouldered gowns remade with two shoulders (that Lavin would look better with a regular T-shirt top anyhoo) and I'd see to it that Swinton was surrounded by minions to clear the way while she made her way down the red carpet like a three-masted ship in full sale. Stand back and make way for the major MAJOR dress!<br />
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<strong>The Valkerie Moment</strong>: Okay, I said I'd resist putting La Swinton in chain mail, but alas, I am but a weak woman, and sometimes mere clothing is Not Enough. Luckily, there are designers willing to put a woman in the armour she deserves. Cue the Wagner!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>I really, really, really like this look. Period.</em></strong></td></tr>
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Because if anyone could drag Ryan Seacrest into Valhalla, that person is Tilda Swinton.Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14066555.post-55572961411808195372011-01-17T13:42:00.000-08:002011-01-17T13:42:02.965-08:00Golden Globes 2011, my favorites, some runners-up, and top-rated dresses I don't like.Many of my favorite Golden Globes looks wound up on other bloggers' worst lists. Of course, I think I'm right and all those other clothes writers lack imagination. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Ooooh, a lot of people think the red rose on Natalie Portman's dress ruined it. I think the rose, which is hand embroidered and studded with Swarovski crystals, is whimsical and adds punch to a pale dress. Natalie looked great on TV, absolutely radiant in the best tradition of expectant mothers. Go Natalie. </em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>I should hate Olivia Wilde's Marchesa dress for being too big and formal (other people did), but I can't because it looks like a child's fantasy of a fairy princess dress, light-weight and sparkly. And Olivia's smile sure doesn't hurt.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Some people loved Emma's Calvin Klein dress for its color, other people disliked it for that reason. The color looked deeper, and better, on TV. I love the dress because when a girl needs to stand out in a sea of ball gowns, less is indeed more!</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Julianne's hair and makeup are terrible, the Fashion Police noticed, and her look was generally dissed. I like the dress; it's minmal with built-in bling. What a good idea! And Julianne should put on some lipstick, it will make her feel better. </em></strong><br />
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</tbody></table>These red dresses got a lot of praise. I lurve red, but I don't love these. I'm over bombshells and bombshell wannabes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>January Jones trying to be edgy again -- she looks like she's playing dress-up in Gypsy Rose Lee's closet.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Let's see, Christina has big hair, big boobs, and a super big shoulder growth on her Wilma. If anyone needs a lesson in minimalism, it's Ms. Hendricks.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Sophia Vergara needs to remember that Jessica Rabbit was a cartoon.</em></strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table>And enough -- on to the SAG Awards, where the ladies at least attempt to dress with class.Gidget Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16932906614393093731noreply@blogger.com0