Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.
Lauren Hutton
The Oscars are always a very expected and highly prepared moment of the year – loads of celebrities, jewelry and tons of dresses.
I always liked the kind of respect actors have for this event – compared with Golden Globe or other largely broadcasted events, the dress code is quite strict and followed by the book. There’s no room for being “super hot”, shocking or outrageous. I guess it’s about style and personality in a subtle way where someone can show its personal touch and creativity. I must have thought of the wrong event – I really didn’t find much this time. Ok, summer 2013 trends are about minimalism, soft colours and monochromy – but this Oscars ceremony was about monotony.
From make-up to hairstyling, jewelry and cleavage, all is “under control” and done in such clean way that it became conventional and flat. It isn’t about the dress, as Yves Saint Laurent may say, but about the lady inside. But when the lady inside (or her armada of stylists) lack inspiration and imagination, things are rather complicated.
There is the right designer for this event (noted is always about Armani, Oscar de la Renta, Prada or Valentino) and the safe colour : nude, red or navy blue.
If the dress code for men was precise and doesn’t let much space while they are supposed to wear tuxedos, ladies played extremly correct outfits and colour was a rare thing – at the Oscars and as well at the Vanity Fair after-party… Did all creativity ran away at currently taking place Fashion Week?
Jessica Chastain in Armani Privé
Charlize Theron in Dior Couture
Amy Adams in Oscar de la Renta
Vanity Fair after-party – Amy Adams in Oscar de la Renta
Faye Dunaway with strange yellow gloves
Oscars 2013: Halle Berry in Versace
Naomi Watts in Armani Privé
Vanity Fair after-party – Naomi Watts (in Emilio Pucci) and husband Liev Schreiber
Salma Hayek in Alexander McQueen
Vanity Fair after Oscar party: Salma Hayek
Vanity Fair after Oscar party – Bono and daughter Eve Hewson
Jennifer Hudson in Roberto Cavalli
Oscars 2013 : Jennifer Aniston in Valentino
Vanity Fair after-party, Reese Witherspoon, in Louis Vuitton, and Jennifer Aniston
Oscars 2013 : Catherine Zeta-Jones in Zuhair Murad
Vanity Fair after-party – Ashley Olsen and Catherine Zeta-Jones (in Zuhair Murad)
Jennifer Lawrence in Dior Couture
Vanity Fair after-party : Jennifer Lawrence in Calvin Klein Collection
Naomie Harris in a recycled materials creation by Michael Badger
Vanity Fair after-party: Naomi Harris in Monique Lhuillier
Anne Hathaway in Prada
Vanity Fair after-party : Anne Hathaway in Saint Laurent
Dress code – tuxedo and nude dresses for the winners of the 85th Oscars Ceremony
Oscars 2013: Kristen Stewart in Reem Acra
Kerry Washington in Miu Miu at the ceremony and at the Vanity Fair after party
Jane Fonda in Atelier Versace
Jane Fonda in Reem Acra at the Vanity Fair after party
Sally Field in Valentino
Vanity Fair after-party
Hillary Swank in Valentino
Adele in Jenny Packham
Oscars 2013 – Jennifer Garner in Gucci Première
Oscars 2013 : Amanda Seyfried in Alexander McQueen
Vanity fair after-party : Amanda Seyfried in Givenchy
Helen Hunt in H&M
Helena Bonham Carter in Vivienne Westwood
Vanity Fair after-party : Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton
Nicole Kidman in L’Wren Scott
Kelly Rowland in Donna Karan Atelier
Zoe Saldana in Alexis Mabille Couture
Vanity Fair after-party: Zoe Saldana in Givenchy
Vanity Fair after-party : Natalie Portman in Dior
Vanity Fair after-party : Miranda Kerr in Valentino
Alessandra Ambrosio in Zuhair Murad
Photos courtesy:
http://www.vanityfair.com
http://www.harpersbazaar.com
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk
http://www.cncnws.com
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