What a week this has been! Firstly, the couture shows stomped in and demanded our attention with fabulous frou and frippery, a reminder that imagination and creativity will outlast any global economic crisis. Who could fail to be moved by Christian Lacroix's potentially last show, funded completely by private donors and receiving a standing ovation at the end. Expect a post on that this weekend. Furthermore Christian Dior and Armani mined popular culture for influences in their shows, Christian Dior taking a leaf out of Lady Gaga's pantsless parade, and Armani sending models down the runway in choppy jet black bobs, the Posh Spice cut?
But in Australia another source of interest has been the finale of Australia's next model that pitted curvaceous bombshell Tahnee against bambi heroin chic Cassi. The outcome was not surprising, considering that the competition is moving more towards a personality contest than a search for a fashion model, but i am disappointed. THey missed a real chance to launch another australian modelling success into the high fashion circuit.
Moving on...
Sienna Miller
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Oh sienna. There are so many questions i'd like to ask you, like how was it kissing heath ledger, is it really awkward between you and kate moss, and how do you get your hair looking so shiny and radiant ALL THE TIME. Say what you want about the girl but she can pull together a casual outfit without a bat of the eyelid. This ease of dressing, this complete effortless-ness in looking chic sometimes doesn't translate so well to the red carpet, but in candid paparazzi photos she is every bit the ebullient beauty we all know her to be. Who cares if the girl can't act, with balenciaga shoes like those, does it really matter?
Marion Cotillard
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Imagine my delight, but not surprise being the face of Lady Dior after all, when photos surfaced of Marion Cotillard, one of my most favourite actresses at the Dior Couture show. It was a beautiful collection of classic dior shapes, colours and styles show in the Ave Montaigne showroom itself. Back to roots. Boring black? i don't think so. With the right accesories, and who does accesories better than Dior, Marion took this outfit from simple and boring to chic and, well, french. The french comparisons are inescapable because she sums up exactly everything that is so laudable about french style, understatement, but not underwhelming. This LBD is perfect, if only i could find one with a less Dior-range price tag. The narrow belt cinched in at the actual waist and not the high waist is a glamorous touch, and those fabulous FW 09 shoes are incredible. Parfait!
Cate Blanchett
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Not the best angle, but it was the only one i could find on tfs that showed her whole outfit and not just a top half pic of her sitting front row at the Armani couture show next to who else but Megan Fox. I wonder what they would have talked about, and what Cate's opinion of her is (considering that i find Megan Fox really fascinating, oddly enough). I love Cate, she is a beautiful of someone ageing gracefully and with their sense of style, glamour and taste intact. This dress is incredible, those shoulders are an amazingly chic way of tackling the strong shoulder trend, i love the way they go up and out instead of out and out. They almost add that whole element of Asian style ornamental shoulder clasps, compounding the chinoiserie of the print it's very clever of Armani to manipulate silhouette and pattern together to create a composite garment. And by gosh Cate wears it so well.
Emma Roberts
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From one strong shoulder to another... this trend is taking over the one, one pad at a time. I am against the strong shoulder for myself, god knows i dont need to add anything to my already ample shoulder broad-ness, but objectively the trend is a great one, even if it has been done to death and copied to within an inch of its life. What's also great about this outfit is that, conversely to Cate, Emma is managing to capture her youth without sacrificing chic and style. I think that sometimes these young starlets feel that they have to dress older than they actually are to appear mature and bankable. Take, for example, Megan Fox, who is only 21 (or 22?) and yet dresses like the vampish Jessica Rabbit in her 30s. Say what you will about the cookie cutter tween starlets (Taylor swift, much?) at least they're running around in converse and cute topshop gowns, and not stiletto heels and balmain (i'm looking at you, Miley!). Well done Emma for rocking a smoky eye, pulled back hair, vampish red nail polish and such a gorgeous louis vuitton jacket toned down with a simple tee and jeans. Great choices, great style.
Dasha Zhukova
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This 'you look lovely today' post has been really dressed down, hardly any crazy red carpet frocks at all, but i suppose i'm in that sort of mood. A lot of people have been complaining that Dasha was too dressed down for the Haute Couture Dior show but i beg to differ, the whole mood of couture, as i noted yesterday, is shifting, as is the whole fashion industry. They are embracing elegance over extravagance and timelessness over timeliness. Dasha is cute in this ensemble, the nude belt serves to break up the blocks of colour and pattern as well as tying into her clutch, and the strappy sandals are just gorgeous. I imagine it is sweltering with heat right now in Paris, and so these kind of choices make sense, even if they don't make you sigh.
TGIF! i'm in hong kong now, catch you on the flipside!
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