Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow
Elizabeth Banks
Helen Mirren
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Carey Mulligan in Prada
Kristen Stewart
Tina Fey
Faith Hill
Mariska Hargitay
E! Television personality Giuliana Rancic
Virgina Madsen
Gabourey Sidibe. Also in blue, a flack in the back.
Mariah Carey and, as usual, her cleavage.
Mo’Nique
Sarah Jessica Parker: Her pastel yellow Chanel Couture frock makes her look like a giant shapeless sack…and she’s a size 0. This looks like the dress Carrie Bradshaw wore in Sex and the City’s fifth season finale—the Hampton’s wedding. Mind you, SJP was pregnant then. Just saying.
Amanda Seyfried: Stunning in a sparkly Armani Prive gown. Loving the thick cuff, too.
Charlize Theron: She looks like she’s being felt up. Never a good look for a black tie affair, at least away from the coat room.
Nicole Richie: This is how free spirit chic should be.
Zoe Saldana: Sparkly bodice? Good. Flouncy, purple ombre mermaid hem? Good. The two together? Bad. Very, very, very bad.
Anna Kendrick: We won’t bust her chops too bad since she’s new to this whole red carpet scene, but homegirl needs to step it up. This dress doesn’t do her fair skin justice and is a snooze fest, too—kind of like that generic bridesmaid dress you’re angry you have to spend $400 on.
Maggie Gyllenhaal: While she looks good, this blue and white abstract-printed Dries Van Noten number is whatever in our book. But the trailer park-rific hot pink lipstick, on the other hand, is killer. Adding that shade to my shopping list, pronto.
Though we already dissected the diva’s fashion from last night’s Grammy Awards, the men deserve a little high-style lovin’ too. But some guys, such as the ones below, kind of looked like crap. Lets examine, shall we?
Shiny Suits
There’s something about an overtly shiny suit that just screams used car salesman. And multiple fellas including Keith Urban, Mike Dirnt and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino channeled their best Cadillac Man at the Grammy’s last night by wearing oil-slicked suits that only a Jersey Shore cast member could consider classy.
Military Jackets
Sporting a stylish military jacket, aging rocker Alice Cooper made himself look younger. French DJ and producer David Guetta, on the other hand, just made himself look crazy. Between his spray-on skinny jeans and wife Cathy’s, uh, everything, the two looked like they were headed to a Halloween party dressed as Miley Cyrus/fashion victims/ any two members of Young Hollywood. I thought the French were supposed to be chic?
Boy as Girl as Boy
I’ll admit it, I have a slight case of Beiber fever. Whenever “One Time” comes on the radio I want to open the sunroof, pretend I just got my drivers license and drive around looking for cute boys. I also want to grab Justin Beiber’s little 15 year-old face and beg him never to talk to Lindsay Lohan or put anything white and foreign up his nose. But though it looked tame, Beiber’s Grammy’s getup was just bad (blame the satin slacks and the not shaggy enough shaggy haircut ). He looked like Annie Hall without the hat, no??
Though a rather nasty case of ADD prevents me from sitting through most feature length films, I’ve arrived at the Sundance Film Festival nonetheless. All weekend long I’ll be bringing you the style scoop from screenings, soirees and, of course, gifting suites (it wouldn’t be a proper film fest without some swag, after all). Though I’ve only been here a couple hours, I’ve so far spotted a ludicrous amount of skinny jeans, plaid shirts and knit skull caps that lead me to believe I’m at Teddy’s on a Friday night and not actually Utah.
I’m excited to (hopefully) bring you more exciting slopeside street style as my visit progresses, as well as revisit rocker Joan Jett’s leather-clad look in honor of the festival premiere of her biopic, The Runaways. I’ll also be party-hopping with a professional party crasher who lies, schemes and schmoozes his way into the biggest events in the world using a sordid arsenal of very elaborate (yet shockingly simple) tricks. I can’t wait to share his secrets (while praying I don’t end up facing charges of trespassing).
So stay tuned, check The Spiel frequently and follow us on Twitter at @StyleSectionLA for the most entertaining Sundance coverage in the land. That is, unless you’re actually interested in the movies. Then you should probably tune in to someone far less fidgety.
From the fine people at MTV who brought us The Hills and The Real World comes Styl’d, a glimpse into the lives of five junior stylists vying for a contract with the L.A.-based Margaret Maldonado Agency, aka the place you want taking your 10% if you’re in the business of dressing celebrities.
Schooling these young coffee-fetching lads on the industry are senior stylists Jen Rade, Eric Archibald and Julie Weiss, who each have a prestigious list of editorial credits larger than some newsstands.
The show premiered last Sunday night and already seems to be a primer on what not to do– while styling, working or just wading through the general scheme of everyday life.
For example, you should not accept a side job with your bosses client when even the janitor at your company likely doesn’t know your name. It’s just not done.
Unfortunately for junior stylist Brett, a strapping young man who worked enough Midwestern mall jobs to constitute him a fashion expert, the above memo was never received.
In this clip from next Sunday’s episode, airing at 10 p.m. ET/PT, we see Rade calmly chewing out our spiky-haired hero for acting like such an amateur, despite his excuse of “needing to put food in his fridge.”
Since I’ve steamed more than a few garments in my day for nothing more than sarcasm and a texted thank you note, I offer Brett this advice: The Korean market sells ramen noodles for $1 less than Ralph’s.
Overboard, the 1987 film starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, could take the prize for most heavily-rotated cable movie of all time.
But watching Hawn’s rich-bitch yacht owner Joanna fall in love with Russell’s Dean the townie carpenter never gets old.
Especially with the film’s ridiculously flashy costumes.
As if setting the stage for Rhianna and Balmain, late costume designer Wayne A. Finkelman outfitted Hawn in jewel encrusted eyewear, shoulder-padded sequin military jackets and the oversize bows currently creeping down catwalks ’round the world. And the dazzling gold, floor-length number Hawn sports toward Overboard’s end looks strikingly similar to a vintage dress we spotted at Satine last week.
Enjoy this gallery of some of our favorite looks. Or, just turn on your TV at any point throughout any Sunday of any month and catch the costumes on-screen for yourself.
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Contrary to popular belief, it seems that celebrity clothing lines started a wee bit before Heidi Montag’s craptastic 2008 collection for Achor Blue.
In 1934, fly girl Amelia Earhart–whose Hilary Swank-headlining biopic hits theaters this Friday–started her own line of ready-to-wear duds.
The Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in in Atchison, Kansas says that the line was only sold in 30 cities across the country with each city allowed a single exclusive purveyor. Macy’s New York and Marshall Field’s in Chicago were among the dapper department stores that carried the collection of mostly androgynous windbreakers and leather jackets inspired by Earhart’s flying ensembles.
According to the Huffington Post, Earhart told the press that her goal was to bring the beauty of aviation closer to all women at prices that didn’t reach “new altitudes.”
Sounds eerily like a Vera Wang for Kohls pitch (or, for that matter, any of the high/low collabs continuously dominating our modern-day shelves).
Two years before the line came into fruition, Vogue featured a set of stylish air suits with oversize pockets that Earhart created for the Ninety-Nines, the female aviation group she co-founded in 1929 that still operates today.
Her influence in fashion can still be clearly felt with Jean Paul Gaultier’s fall 2009 line for Hermes and, most recently, L.A.-based Skingraft citing the famous pilot as inspiration behind spring 2010.
And so concludes today’s lesson highlighting one of history’s strongest, most stylish ladies.
Class dismissed.
