Rachel vs. Kirsten

Kirsten Dunst's Chanel dress at the Oscars was not popular at all and honestly, I didn't hate it but I certainly didn't like it. I was browsing through my favorite celebrity website, Just Jared (it's better than Perez Hilton because he scans a lot of magazine articles from fashion magazines and puts up more pics of celebrities in great clothes at events instead of paparazzi shots which I don't really care about, but I digress). Just Jared put up some scans of Rachel McAdams from Elle Magazine and she wore the dress Kirsten Dunst wore to the Oscars. Even though the dress isn't great, I think Rachel McAdams looks SO much better in it. Maybe it's the lighting or the fact you can't see the bottom of the dress. What are your thoughts?

Oscar Fashion Wrap Up

It's Oscar time!! The mother of all awards show is here and while the show itself is usually pretty boring the fashion is always fun to dissect. However, since the Oscars are such a big deal, usually the fashion is less risky and a bit more plain than the Golden Globes or SAG Awards. I think this year followed that rule.

I didn't notice any huge trends but here are some women who chose to wear beigish/creamish colors. From left to right: Helen Mirren wore Christian Lacroix and while I liked the dress I thought it made her look kind of matronly, especially compared to the Golden Globes. Jennifer Lopez chose the Greek Goddess look again with Marchesa. Gwyneth Paltrow is wearing Zac Posen. At first I didn't like the dress but after looking at it for a bit it's growing on me.


There were also some women who chose very light colors. Kate Winslet is wearing this light green Valentino dress. I think she looks okay, the dress is a little plain and the color isn't very flattering on her. She's looked better. Beyonce is wearing Armani Prive. I don't like her that much and even though the dress is nice I just don't think it looks that great on her, I think it's just my bias against her.


Bold colors still make a statement. As much as I don't really like Jessica Biel (she went to the same college as me and I don't think she's a very good actress) her Oscar de la Renta dress was approrpiately young and fun but still classy. Although I think she should have worn a bra or something. I thought Nicole Kidman looked absolutely stunning in Balenciaga. The red is gorgeous and matches perfectly with her blond hair and skin tone. For someone who is so fair that can be difficult. Naomi Watts in Escada looked good too, although I think the yellow doesn't quite match perfectly with her skin tone. Apparently the rep for Escada said how they designed the dress around her pregnancy even though she hasn't announced it herself yet, oops!! She's probably not so happy about that. Reese Witherspoon in Nina Ricci looks simple and elegant, even though her hair is the same as the Golden Globes.


I think feathers are tough to pull off and very fashion forward. Penelope Cruz in Atelier Versace, Maggie Gyllenhaal in Prouenza Schouler and Kirsten Dunst in Chanel Couture all went with feathers. I'm not a huge fan of feathers so with every one of these dresses at first I didn't love them but after seeing a few pictures I've decided they're not bad.


I really liked Cameran Diaz's Valentino dress. I think it's kinda cool and I really like how the white contrasts with her darker hair and the 2.9 million dollars worth of Cartier jewelry she's wearing including ncluding a 9-carat cabochon emerald and 65-carat diamond earrings. That's a lot of money on jewels, but those earrings are gorgeous.


My best dressed this year goes to Cate Blanchett in Giorgio Armani Prive and Rachel Weisz in Vera Wang. Both their hair, make-up and outfits look fantastic. I think Cate's dress is beautiful and very outstanding while still being classy. Really sparkly dresses are hard to pull off (see Beyonce, Golden Globes) but she does it well.


I love how silky and gorgeous Rachel's dress is. The train also has really cool detailing on it. I'm surprised how nice that necklace and pin look on a strapless dress, that might look like overkill on someone less elegant.


Now time for my worst dressed. I thought Kelly Preston's Dolce and Gabbana dress was kind of overkill. I know leopard print is in and all but it is a lot and looks a little too young for her. It's also not very flattering on her great figure. Anne Hathaway's Valentino dress looks like a grandma's doiley with a big bow on top.
Eva Green is so beautiful and a great actress (she looks fantastic in Casino Royale my new fav movie) but at events she always looks terrible. The Oscars were no exception. That dress is just ugly, and so is her hair.


I thought the show itself was kinda boring, I miss Jon Stewart as the host. I was kind of annoyed when the announcer that The Deaprted was based on the JAPANESE film Infernal Affairs (one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time, that is from Hong Kong in CHINA), oh well. For a complete list of winners click here.

One last post before I go

As I was surfing the web I came upon these pictures of American Ferrera at the Directors Guild of American awards and I must say I think she looks phenomenal. The beautiful lace dress, the fantastic red shoes, the casual but great hair and the classy and understated jewelry are perfect. I think she's gorgeous (and actually looks like a normal sized person) and she is definitely not the ugly girl she plays in Ugly Betty. She has a great stylist and has looked wonderful at the Golden Globes and SAG awards. She told Hello Magazine, "I didn't know how fat and ugly I was until I started going on auditions." Oh Hollywood, get with reality!

SAG Awards Fashion

I think the SAG awards is the middle child between the Oscars and Golden Globes. It's an awards show that everyone goes to but it doesn't get much attention (even though it's a much better predictor of the Oscars than the Golden Globes, and it's a bigger honor since it's fellow actors and not the press who votes). Nevertheless, it's another reason for the stars to get dressed up in fancy dresses I wish I could wear. This year no dresses really wowed me or stood out, but I think everyone looked pretty decent, nothing too bad, nothing fantastic though.

While the theme of the Golden Globes was winter white, I think the trend of the SAG awards was bright colors, golds/cremes/beiges, and grays. How come no one wears black anymore?

Apparently bright colors (especially red, yellow and cobalt blue) are very in for spring, I didn't realize they were out. Anyways, lots of stars wore bright colors (and funny enough, almost no one wore white) and I think they looked great. In red we have Katherine Heigl who looks gorgeous, Demi Moore in Alberta Ferretti (love the dress), Kate Walsh in Kevan Hall (I'm on the fence about the dress, looks good with her hair though)

There's also Becki Newton (from Ugly Betty) in Reem Acra, Julia Louis Dreyfuss in Carolina Herrerra (beautiful dress) and Jada Pinkett Smith in Bob Mackie Couture (VERY bright!).


There were also some lovely ladies in gray. A very pregnant Jamie Pressley in Badgely Mischka (I wish I could look like that normally let alone pregnant), Mariska Hargitay in Carolina Herrera, and Eva Longoria in Vera Wang (I don't love this dress, it's pretty but I think it looks too big and too long on her).

Reese Witherspoon in Nina Ricci (she's going for the shorter dresses at these awards shows which is refreshing and very different) and Jordana Spiro (star of the TBS show My Boys, which is really fun show.)


Beige/Creme/Goldish colored dresses were also popular. Armani Prive must be loving this color since they dressed Cate Blanchett and Diane Kruger in it. I like Cate Blanchett's dress (although doesn't it look a little short?) and Diane Kruger's just looks kind of off, maybe because it's weirdly asymmetrical, still she pulls it off. Sandra Oh chose an Armani frock in this color as well. I'm not a huge fan of it though, or any of these Armani dresses.

Kyra Sedgewick looks great in Herve Leger. Nicolette Sheridan (her dress looks like it's been done before) and Helen Hunt also went with beige.


I really don't know how I feel about Ellen Pompeo's Lanvin dress. On one hand, I really want to like it because it's very different and unique from anything else on the red carpet. The neck thing is kinda cool and would have looked great on a dress that wasn't so ill fitted. The dress as a whole looks strange and doesn't seem to fit well. The body part of it looks like she draped a big bag over herself. Her hair also looks very severe. What do you think?


My pick for best dressed is Sara Ramirez from Grey's Anatomy. I couldn't find who designed the dress but I think she looks fantastic. She's a more full figured woman especially compared to all the typical Hollywood actresses and this dress plays up her curves and uses them to her advantage. The color is great on her skin tone and her hair looks great with the strapless.


My worst dressed is going to have to go to Mary Louise Parker and Patricia Arquette. They're not too too horrible though, I think my least favorite is a more appropriate term. Mary Louise Parker is so talented and so gorgeous but this dress just looks weird. I think if it was tailored better, especially the bust, then it would have looked much better. It kind of reminds me of Lara Flynn Boyle's ballerina debacle a while ago. The shoes invoke that image. I just don't think it fits right. Ditto for Patricia Arquette, she needs a new stylist STAT, I've never seen her look good at an awards show and she is so capable of it. That dress does not flatter her at all and doesn't fit right. It also kind of looks like aluminium foil.


Finally, congrats to my favorite comedy The Office for winning Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. It's is a well deserved award, that show is hilarious and the actors' facial expressions are half of what makes it so funny(plus i have a big crush on John Krasinski). The cast is supposed to be really nice and a lot of them have myspaces where they write blogs to give some backstage insight and communication with the fans. Jenna Fischer's is here.


For a complete list of the winners and nominees click here.

Bebe and The OC

I remember when The OC first came out and i wanted to own everything Marissa and Summer wore. I'm sad that just when the show is making a great comeback (thanks to Taylor Townsend/Autumn Reeser) it's being cancelled, last episode is February 22. Sad! Anyways, I was watching last week I recognized a shirt Taylor was wearing as something I saw in Bebe and really liked. I don't shop at that much, I think the quality isn't so great for the price you pay, but they do have some cute stuff. I was a little surprised to see Taylor in Bebe since Marissa was always dripping in Chanel but I think it is appropriate for their characters.


This is the Vested Vine Shirt that I saw in the store and I loved. I didn't buy it though because I really didn't like how the vest and the shirts are sewn together, it's really weird and makes it look cheap like something you'd get at Forever 21 (I like Forever 21 but at $80 for the Bebe shirt I think it should look like it cost that much). In fact, Forever 21 copied this and just uses different patterns. Everything in this print sold out so i wasn't the only one who liked it. i kind of regret not buying it actually.


They still have this Chain Button Shirt for $69.00 on the website. I also like the blue one that Taylor is wearing better.


Summer is still the fashion queen on the show though (so is Rachel Bilson in real life).