The Emmys were held Sunday night and I've rounded up the best and... least best. Let's get to it, ladies and gents! I'm going in alphabetical order, for fairness sake...
ANNA TORV
Isn't this a fun little dress? I wish she'd done a little something with her hair but even so she looks great and this dress is flattering her athletic figure. I love the color (up close it is a little more of a pink-red than a red-red), I love the sequins, I love the fact that it has sleeves! Making it look easy to look good.
CHLOE SEVIGNY
I don't often have nice things to say about Chloe's fashion sense. Some people are gaga over it, but I mostly don't get it. This dress, however, I adore. It takes a classic, upscale silhouette but makes it interesting with the fabric and pattern choices. Fun and young and unique. I do wish she didn't insist on doing her own hair and makeup (c'mon, you know she did) because it could be a lot better.
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE
Oh dear, dear, dear. This dress is awful. It looks simultaneously frumpy and overwrought and WHAT is going ON with that weird line across her chest?! Is it a curiously lilting band of beading? Or is it a one-shouldered cape? BECAUSE THAT IS NOT BETTER.
DREW BARRYMORE
Ben loves Drew Barrymore. I like her too, and I like how now in her 30s she is looking better than ever. But I do not like this dress. This looks falls into the dangerous territory of doing unicolor hair-face-skin-dress. I like the shape and style of the dress, but the color is dingy and wrong.
ELIZABETH MOSS
I've recently started watching Mad Men. I really like it! But I don't really like Elizabeth Moss's dress. The rich color is very flattering, and I like the built in necklace as neckline, but the draping is detracting from all that. I think a simpler silhouette, in this same color, would've been nicer. But actually, all I could think was how much better she looked in the one episode where Peggy got glam to go out with the office gents... maybe Elizabeth should've snatched this from wardrobe:
ELIZABETH PERKINS
I like to say something nice about each outfit even if I didn't like it, because I know these ladies tried hard. So... umm... Elizabeth, my, what a fetching color on you.
HAYDEN PANETTIERE
I try not to read other people's fashion reviews before I do mine, so as not to be influenced. But sometimes I slip, and on this occassion I can do no better than the site where I saw her look described as CIT, for Cougar In Training. Hayden just turned 20, but this is the dress, makeup, and styling of a 40 year old woman.
JANUARY JONES
I could not find a single photo that did this dress justice, but when I saw January Jones on the red carpet I was wowed. I imagine she has to try really hard to put together a look for these events. After all, the "old Hollywood glamour" that other women can do would just be a retread of the character she plays on TV. This dress is architectural and truly unique. It manages to look modern and retro at the same time. Many other actresses could not pull this off but she is wearing it well. My only complaint is her hair looked a little last minute. I also included this picture to show that, while out on the red carpet it looked to be white, on stage it was revealed that the dress is actually a fabulous mint color. LOVE.
It's my day off so I'm off to run some errands. I will post parts two and three later today!
We're going to the post-season!!! The Cards beat the Rockies on Saturday to win the NL Central, as predicted at the beginning of the season by... nobody.
To be fair to Mila, I saw this as she walked the carpet, and I didn't think it was that bad. I just think that this length of dress is for people under the age of 12 and/or ballerinas. Unfortunately, she kind of looks like both.
Last year Olivia Wilde was my best dressed from the Emmys. You might want to go look at that dress again, because I don't even have words for what is happening to her here. If I was forced to come up with words, some of them might be "bride," "figure skating," "doilies," "what," "is," and "this."
...which looked very classy and elegant with the low draping and jeweled piece. And no matter what I thought of her dress, she got the last laugh as her series 30 Rock won five Emmys including Best Comedy. Or maybe we get the last laugh because we get the pleasure of watching that hilarious show. Either way, someone is laughing. And there's nothing unfashionable about that.
I really like Jenna's look from the knees up. An improvement over last year for sure. The mermaid shape is surprisingly good for her, and black, while safe, is also sophisticated when done well. The beading is okay and the sweetheart neckline is a great choice on her. She looked so happy walking the carpet with her new fiance, and I also like her softer hairstyle. Oh, and even though you can't see them in this picture, her very pretty drop earrings. The only thing is, from the knees down, the fabric is doing something weird... like what is happening with the big stiff hem?
If it's not one thing with this girl, it's the other. I approve of the dress. The color is sweet and fresh. This is the right shape for a girl like J-Love with some shape to her hips. It is youthful without being inappropriate for her age. However. HOWEVER. Unless she arrived directly at the Emmys after performing the titular role in a new stage production of Rapunzel, those extensions have got. to. go.
If a redhead walked up to me and said, "Quick, name a color I would look amazing in," silver would not be the first thing tripping off my tongue. Thanks, Kate Walsh, for teaching me something new! Like Jenna Fischer, a real improvement over her heavy serious look from last year. I have no idea what miracle of technology is keeping that dress up, but color me impressed. And I don't know that I've ever had the pleasure of saying the words "elegant," "flattering," and "saddlebags of draping fabric" in the same sentence, but there you go.
Hey, Kristen, thank God I caught you before you got any further down the carpet. Come a little closer... little closer... Riiiiiiip. Wait, let me get the other one. Riiiiiiip. Okay, okay. You're good to go! Knock 'em dead, you look great in that sleeveless halter dress!
Somewhere, Bridesmaid Barbie (1996 Collector's Edition) is crying in the bathroom because she showed up wearing the same thing as Kyra Sedgwick! And her stylist said it was a one of a kind! PS. This is awful.
I probably had the hardest time making up my mind about this outfit. I'm still on the fence. On the one hand, I love it. On the other hand, from some angles those knots in the shoulder straps looked like giant weird puffs. On the other other hand, from other angles they looked smaller and gave her Grecian goddess gown a unique twist. On the other other other hand, I thought the whole look aged her a little bit. On the other(x4) hand, I love Blair Waldorf like Chuck Bass loves ascots and suspenders, and therefore I'm willing to allow Leighton some wiggle room here. I don't know. Please tell me what your hands think, in the comments.
Isn't this a fun little dress? I wish she'd done a little something with her hair but even so she looks great and this dress is flattering her athletic figure. I love the color (up close it is a little more of a pink-red than a red-red), I love the sequins, I love the fact that it has sleeves! Making it look easy to look good.
I don't often have nice things to say about Chloe's fashion sense. Some people are gaga over it, but I mostly don't get it. This dress, however, I adore. It takes a classic, upscale silhouette but makes it interesting with the fabric and pattern choices. Fun and young and unique. I do wish she didn't insist on doing her own hair and makeup (c'mon, you know she did) because it could be a lot better.
Oh dear, dear, dear. This dress is awful. It looks simultaneously frumpy and overwrought and WHAT is going ON with that weird line across her chest?! Is it a curiously lilting band of beading? Or is it a one-shouldered cape? BECAUSE THAT IS NOT BETTER.
Ben loves Drew Barrymore. I like her too, and I like how now in her 30s she is looking better than ever. But I do not like this dress. This looks falls into the dangerous territory of doing unicolor hair-face-skin-dress. I like the shape and style of the dress, but the color is dingy and wrong.
