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Post by Ace on Mar 1, 2004 10:26:34 GMT -5
Denver Post excerptThe guys looked handsome, with Bill Murray in a stylish Helmut Lang tux and Djimon Hounsou and Heath Ledger in Gucci. Pierce Brosnan's Armani tuxedo had velvet lapels and Ken Watanabe was sophisticated in Issey Miyake. The classic four-in-hand tie has officially replaced the bow tie in our formalwear style manuals. Hollywood look is spine-tingling with backless lookBy Rod Stafford Hagwood Posted March 1 2004 Oscar fashion is back, back, backless. After last year's outbreak of war effectively rolled up the red carpet, Sunday night's broadcast was a glam slam of goddess gowns and leading lady looks. Holly could. Holly would. Holly did. Tinseltown is frontin' with their backs, with stars such as Naomi Watts in a beaded strapless Versace gown with a plunging back, and Angelina Jolie in a white satin Marc Bouwer gown with straps all the way down beyond her borders (she passed on the $10 million 85-carat diamond necklace by H. Stern ... diamonds interrupted). Liv Tyler wore backless black Givenchy (with a faux necktie stopping just above her derriere) while Charlize Theron grabbed the spotlight with old-fashioned megawatt sex appeal in a Gucci gown -- a nice denouement for designer Tom Ford, who exits both that Italian house and the French label Yves Saint Laurent next month. When not putting it all behind them, actresses chose to go with full-throttle color, such as Nicole Kidman in her blue Chanel strapless bustier gown. "I don't deliberate too much," Kidman told Joan Rivers on the E! cable channel. "I just pick one and that's it." Whatever. After her flapper faux pas of a dress at the Golden Globes, a little more deliberation might be in order. Catherine Zeta-Jones chose scarlet red, Jamie Lee Curtis wore Mediterranean blue, Keisha Castle-Hughes was pretty in pink, and Scarlett Johansson was sporting a jazzy jade second-skin satin Alberta Ferretti gown. Of course, there are those red-carpet rebels: women whose sense of style is as uncompromising as their talent. For example, Diane Keaton wore a natty-looking Ralph Lauren pantsuit that paid homage to her Annie Hall days (her last Oscar win). Samantha Morton wore a voluminous ball gown that screamed couture ... something you want screamed at the world's most fabulous fashion event. Not everyone wore something to shout about, though. Kelly Lynch wore a puckered, gathered gown that was the finale of designer Zac Posen's recent fall runway show in New York. You just have to have faith: It looks better in person. But with the television camera, she looked like she had pulled a "Scarlett O'Hara." Diane Lane wore an ill-fitting dress all keyholed up and nowhere to go. Sandra Bullock's white halter gown by Oscar de la Renta was fine up top. But down below things went all fluffy with flurries of feathers, not unlike the kind of thing a beauty queen might wear on a Mardi Gras float. And as for Uma Thurman ... oh dear ... let's just say she should fire her stylist and then have him killed for making her wear a white, layered, deconstructed confirmation dress to the Academy Awards. Everyone should take a page out of Sarah Jessica Parker's book when the stylish star of the little screen said, "I believe a girl should just let the dress do all the work." Notice, Uma, she didn't say the dress should co-star. For the guys, it was all men in black. Not tuxes as much as evening suits (with glossy neckties or shiny dress shirts). The entire male cast of The Lord of the Rings, Tim Robbins, Phil Collins, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Robin Williams (what's with the elongated jackets? Soooo last century) wore black suits. Ken Watanabe wore an elegant Issey Miyake tuxedo with thickish lapels, while Pierce Brosnan asked Giorgio Armani for velvet lapels because, "I think it's rather subtle."
That's what's so great about Hollyweird: They tell you one thing, and wear another.===================================== But it was subtle, subtley different while being differently sumptous which is why it worked. Ace
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Post by Ace on Mar 1, 2004 10:51:10 GMT -5
NY Post: Cindy Adams
March 1, 2004 -- LOS ANGELES — Oscar time. More stars here than over Jupiter. And, go figure, the biggest nova of all? Carson Kressley. In a salmon-colored jacket (smoked lox, not Bumblebee), "The Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" fashion guy gushed: "The Oscars, Independent Spirit Awards, Bravo, everybody wants me for the red carpet. I'm now gay in quadruplicate. And making my hair look good at the same time."
Post-Janet Jackson news is — nipples are in. Or, rather, out! Holly Hunter's poked through her Vera Wang job. I also saw Maggie Gyllenhaal's in her snug blue dress. Nifty. If I ever switch, she'll be first. Even Jane Fonda's kid Troy unbuttoned his black shirt and wiggled his left one at a camera. No idea why. U.S. citizen Shohreh Aghdashloo comes from repressed Muslim Iran, but her tight red number did not repress anything. Everything showed but her naturalization papers.
The bigger the star, the bigger the car. Tom Cruise travels in a black SUV. A caravan. His p.r. man, Pat Kingsley, has an SUV. His follow car with the security — another SUV.
The bigger the crowd, the bigger the generation gap. Seeing Zooey Deschanel, fotogs chanted, "Zooey . . . Zooey . . . " A senior watching asked: "Who?"
The schmattas: Nominee Patricia Clarkson in beige see-through Michael Vollbracht. As she walked off, I saw everything but the label. "It's no loaner. I'll keep it. Oh, yeah, it's mine." . . . Nominee Samantha Morton's brocade was a 1951 Givenchy. "From his first collection." . . . Nia "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" Vardalos got a last-minute fitting for her black-and-white Patricia Rowland. "And I didn't diet to fit it. I'm an eater. I always eat." . . . Jennifer Tilly wore a 20-year-old, beaded Helen Rose: "I bought this myself at the vintage store Decade."
The knockouts: Calvin Klein spokesbeaut Scarlett Johansson in drop-dead green Alberto Ferretti. And stunning-to-die-for, the ruffled, black, lowlowlowlow-cut Gucci that Susan Sarandon nearly wore. "What will I do with something like this in my lifestyle? I'm not keeping it. It's going to auction for charity." While she was telling me this and fixing her busted shoe, Robin Williams was kissing Tim Robbins' award-winning hand.
The nominated cootchy-coo: Nominee Naomi Watts in a sleeveless, backless, armless gown was freezing. Her man, Heath Ledger, stroked her arm, rubbed her back, hugged her close, touched her earlobe, massaged her waist. Trust me, this dude does good work.
The nominated jewelry. The vintage Cartier diamond necklace Renée Zellweger wore. Borrowed. Not hers. And the Neil Lane diamond necklace Sting's wife, Trudie Styler, wore. Not borrowed. Hers.
The sights of the week: Peter Dinklage hand-in-hand with his full-size brother hidden behind Harvey Weinstein . . . Wall-to-wall James Bonds: Pierce Brosnan talking to Sean Connery. We're talking 0014 . . . AriannaHuffington making no political statement for a change. She walked in the middle of the red carpet . . . Elvis Costello dogging the entrance as though he wanted to see a movie star like everyone else . . . Nicole Kidman, usually accessible, stiffing reporters by ducking into the theater P.D.Q.
The remark of the week: Paris Hilton, at New Line's party in sexy, filmy pink with a bejeweled cell phone hanging off her neck: "I can't tell you whose dress this is. I really don't know. Somebody sent it to me."
The doings of the week: Sean Penn hosting a party for presidential contender Dennis Ku cinich . . . Charlize Theron getting an all-Dior products makeup from Shane Paish . . . Ted Turner introducing James Caan to his live-in, Rebecca Stewart, with: "He made a movie with Jane [ex-wife Fonda]." Stunning blond Rebecca looked thrilled.
The comments: Keisha Castle-Hughes in New Zealand designer Liz Mitchell: "Everyone asks the same questions, but they're all very polite. It's been quite nice, ackshelly." . . . Sir Ben Kingsley: "I keep my awards in the library. Our housekeeper dusts them carefully. I don't do it personally." . . . New Line Cinema's Michael Lynne: "So many of us involved in 'The Lord of the Eings' production. I wonder who'd physically get to keep the Oscar." . . . Jude Law wore a bespoke Savile Row number. When a fan yelled: "You're even prettier in person," he hollered back, "You, too." . . . Francis Ford Coppola: "Sofia was good in art as a child. I guess her career is the result."
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Post by Ace on Mar 1, 2004 18:49:53 GMT -5
NY Times: Post-Oscar Reflections, Before We ForgetBy A. O. SCOTT Published: March 2, 2004 [Excerpt] Until then we might linger a bit more over the memorable films of 2003 before they slip into their temporary oblivion. Or not. At one moment over the weekend, oblivion seemed to be preceded by obliviousness. Toward the end of a party on Saturday night at the home of Bob Shaye, co-chief executive of New Line Cinema and Gandalf to Mr. Jackson's Frodo, a line of stretch limousines negotiated tight turns in the narrow drive perched at the edge of a cliff. One departing guest, waiting for his car to ascend from the valley below, turned to another and asked, in apparent earnest, "What's this party for, anyway?" Well, you see, there was this hobbit, and there was this $300 million commitment to make three movies about him. . . . But perhaps the gentleman's question was not meant literally at all, in which case the entire edifice of Oscar meaning — the conceit of this article, the "vision" behind the "journey," as it were — threatens to come crashing down. What is it for? What a question! It is for eating couscous and salmon in a tent. It is for gaping at the Picassos and the Francis Bacons on the wall. It is for glimpsing not one James Bond but two, Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan, in the same room. It is for perfecting the nonchalant celebrity-spotting head-swivel and the nod of mock-mutual recognition. While your inner fan is wide-eyed and agog, your outer mien is unruffled, even blasé, editing the boldface from the names. Harvey Keitel. Steven Tyler. Anjelica Huston. Paris Hilton. Yeah. Cool. Whatever. Now fish your valet ticket out of your pocket and wait an hour for your car to make its way up the hill.
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Post by sparklingblue on Mar 1, 2004 19:27:37 GMT -5
I just watched my tape of the Oscars. Pierce looked really fan-tas-tic!!. Ace, you're so right, it's not only about the clothes. I need to lie down now...
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Post by Ace on Mar 2, 2004 18:54:42 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Mar 2, 2004 22:08:04 GMT -5
The good, the bad and the skinny of the OscarsTuesday, March 02, 2004 By Kim Crow, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette OK, here's the stuff you really want to know about the Academy Awards. How skinny ARE these stars? Who's had a really bad face lift? Who was rude and pushy? Who swept past reporters and rushed into the Kodak Theater? And who's so eager for press that she'll work the red carpet for hours, hoping to catch the eye of an E! "News" correspondent? And the winners are... REALLY, REALLY SKINNY STARS: While everyone is a bit more fit than you'll see on the streets of Pittsburgh, Naomi Watts in particular is a wee thing. Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgewick definitely need to eat more bacon. Patricia Clarkson is beyond petite, and Sandra Bullock, Jada Pinkett Smith and Holly Hunter could all shop in the children's department at Kaufmann's. Not that they would. WHO'S HAD A LITTLE WORK? Some in the stands say they didn't recognize Holly Hunter, who definitely looks 20 years younger than she is. Susan Sarandon looks amazing, but it could be just her admirable bone structure. She'll still be striking when she's 80. Joan Rivers is downright scary in person, but she's never hidden her love of plastic surgery. The stars themselves didn't seem to be the worst offenders. That distinction goes to the anonymous heads and wives of heads of movie studios, who walk down the OTHER side of the red carpet, the side that doesn't show up on the pre-shows. WHO STUCK OUT? Among the movie stars, the most stunning in person had to be Julianne Moore, with her dramatically pale skin and dark red hair set off to perfection by her silvery dress. Catherine Zeta-Jones was a complete knock-out, with her hair loose and flowing, in a skin-tight red Versace. She's definitely lost the baby weight. Also dazzling in red was Best Supporting Actress nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo, a mature Iranian-born beauty with the thickest, shiniest black hair imaginable. Julia Roberts really is a pretty woman, smaller than you'd think. And Jada Pinkett Smith has the most beautiful glowing skin ever, something you don't pick up on at the movies. Johnny Depp wasn't voted the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine for nothing. Goodness gracious, but the man has soulful eyes. And those cheekbones? Sigh. Depp cleaned up nicely for the awards, for once clean-shaven, hair neatly styled, dapper in a trim tuxedo. Sean Connery is still impressive, and Blair Underwood, glimpsed at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, makes one wonder why Miranda from "Sex and the City" chose Steve. Only on TV. Can we vote now for Pierce Brosnan as next year's Sexiest Man Alive? The impressive carriage and posture of Ken Watanabe could rival his, however. Little Elijah Wood's famous blue Frodo eyes could be seen from 50 feet away. And Jack Black is far more handsome in person than one might suppose. WHO STUCK OUT -- IN A BAD WAY? Uma Thurman's horrid dress overshadowed her unique beauty. It was hard to concentrate on that face while trying to decipher what exactly it was she was wearing. On screen, Jude Law is beautiful. But in person, he was just a slight, tired-looking pale face in the crowd. Must have been the lighting on the red carpet. Kelly Lynch looked dreadful in her teal chiffon concoction and decided to brazen it out by talking to every reporter she could find. An unidentified pneumatic date of some Hollywood bigwig came in a fishnet dress -- with nothing underneath to protect her, um, modesty. And Diane Keaton's fashion sense has been maligned for the past 30 years, so there's no point in pointing it out again. But those black and white loafers? They were bad, even for her. WE THOUGHT SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE WEIGHT ISSUES: Renee Zellweger gained 20 pounds to fill the shoes of "Bridget Jones" once more, and fashion wags have been chortling over her chubbed-out appearance during the awards season this winter. But please, 20 extra pounds on this woman makes little difference in real-world figures. Zellweger was perhaps up to a size 8, a size most of us dream about attaining. And Oprah Winfrey? STUNNING, and much, much smaller than you'd expect. Even pregnant-with-twins Marcia Gay Harden carried her baby weight beautifully. AND THE SHARON STONE "PLEASE NOTICE ME!" AWARD: Jamie Lee Curtis, who arrived on the red carpet at least two hours before the show began and spent that time talking to every single reporter she could find. It took her longer to navigate that path than it did most of the acting nominees.
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Post by sparklingblue on Mar 3, 2004 9:50:09 GMT -5
Can we vote now for Pierce Brosnan as next year's Sexiest Man Alive? He's got my vote. ;D
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Post by Ace on Mar 6, 2004 12:55:20 GMT -5
NY Times: After 100 Years of Squirming, Men Tank the Tux By DAVID COLMAN
Published: March 7, 2004 SHEEPSHANK, half hitch, farmer's loop, monkey's fist. To the long list of knots that most men have no idea how to tie and no desire to learn, it appears one can now add the knot that has held the formal tuxedo together for more than a century — the bow tie. If last week's Oscar broadcast is any indication, the familiar black tie is going the way of the fedora and the fish fork. Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, Tim Robbins, Benicio del Toro, Ian McKellen, Peter Jackson, Djimon Hounsou — enough names to fill a droning acceptance speech — all left the bow tie at home. Instead, they wore a four-in-hand tie, all but cementing the new hipper look in formal wear: what one might call the dinner suit. Mavericks? Style setters? Not exactly. Makers of formal wear, including Helmut Lang, Dior Homme and After Six, have already shifted allegiance to the four-in-hand tie and the black suit, leaving the traditional tuxedo to, well, traditionalists. "We've seen a substantial shift away from the traditional tuxedo with the bow tie and cummerbund," said Robert Burke, the fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman. "But we've seen increased sales in formal wear, whether that's white dinner jackets, navy blue ones, velvet jackets and suits. Evening wear has actually become more fashionable because it's less traditional." David Lipke, who follows formal wear trends as a senior editor at DNR, the men's wear trade journal, said dinner jackets and suits have definitely eroded tux turf. "A lot of people who see themselves as the guardians of what people should be wearing are horrified," he said, "But everyone makes these suits now — Calvin Klein, Hugo Boss." Despite a brisk interest in dress among younger men, they do not much care for the tux. One can hardly blame them, given what's involved besides the satin-trimmed jacket and pants. There is the pleated, ruffled or bibbed shirt, the cummerbund, cuff links, studs and dress shoes. Then there is the bow — not hard to tie, but hard to tie correctly, so as to resemble a live butterfly, not one squashed on the windshield. The only thing missing is two Advil. The dinner suit, as seen on the Oscars' red carpet, designer runways and countless formal wear Web sites, is a breeze by comparison. Most often, it is a notch-lapel black or dark blue suit jacket and pants, worn with a dressy solid-color shirt and a lustrous solid necktie (or no tie, in true Tom Ford style). In its dark, graphic simplicity, the dinner suit — some with a grosgrain lapel, some made of velvet — distinguishes itself from the business suit without the bother of a tux. There are limits to what will fly, however. Jim Moore, the creative director of GQ, said you can't lose the bow tie and then wear your tux coat with just any necktie. "Only the notch-lapel jacket really works," he said, adding that a peak-lapel or shawl-collar jacket is designed to work expressly with a bow tie. "I'd rather see no tie than a long tie with those," he said. Tuxedo purists can not complain that it didn't have a good run. It made its debut in 1886, when the stylish upstart Griswold Lorillard wore one to a white-tie-and-tails ball at the Tuxedo Park Club in upstate New York. The short black jacket shocked the crowd with its informality. By 1900, the "tuxedo" was a formal wear staple, standing stock-still for a century while women's evening wear waltzed every which way. The tux hit its style peak in the late 50's and early 60's, as the soigné uniform of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, of Cary Grant as the rakish ex-cat-burglar in "To Catch a Thief" (1955) and, of course, as the signature of the Lothario and spy James Bond, who memorably stripped off his wet suit to reveal a tux in "Goldfinger" (1964). But last Sunday, even 007's current incarnation, Pierce Brosnan, wore a long tie. It bears noting that some Oscar attendees in formal black tie drew some of the most admiring glances. Among them were Jude Law in a three-piece midnight-blue tuxedo by Dunhill, and Stuart Townsend, working a Bogey look in a white Gucci dinner jacket. But these turbo-charged tuxedos also play into the dinner-suit trend, said Marshal Cohen, chief analyst for the NPD Group, a market research company. "The trend in formal wear is all about self-expression," he said, adding that 90 percent of men cannot tie a bow tie. The upshot is no great savings. One of the assets of the tuxedo is that a man needs only one. With open-ended dinner dress, the options are endless. But if a man wants to buy just one ensemble, the best is a dressy black or dark blue suit. He will have something to wear to his tuxedo's funeral.
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Post by Ace on Mar 6, 2004 23:00:46 GMT -5
And the photo that accompanied the NY Times article's slide show of the "Hipper Dinner Suit":
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Post by migs on Mar 7, 2004 0:23:46 GMT -5
He get's my vote every year! ;D On the other hand, is there even a NEED to vote? He has no competition! migs
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Post by sparklingblue on Mar 8, 2004 10:11:15 GMT -5
He get's my vote every year! ;D On the other hand, is there even a NEED to vote? He has no competition! ;D ;D ;D True enough!
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Post by Ace on Mar 8, 2004 18:35:44 GMT -5
From the New Line pre-Oscar party... Pierce with Sean Connery a rare find... and pleas to anyone who can unlock the larger watermarked version at Rex Features!
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Post by Yuliya on Mar 8, 2004 19:39:48 GMT -5
Unlock or unwatermark? Because just a while ago Kelly offered her Photoshop services.
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Post by Ace on Mar 8, 2004 19:52:13 GMT -5
Unlock the larger watermarked ones. There used to be a time you could click on the thumbnails for the larger version, then they hid that feaure behind previews then they took that away and now all I can access are thumbnails! BAH!
Ace
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Post by Yuliya on Mar 8, 2004 20:01:46 GMT -5
Phoey! For the want of a better word.
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Post by xenos on Mar 9, 2004 12:09:07 GMT -5
I would really like to know what they were talking about Perhaps about the best way how to say: Bond...James Bond
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Post by sparklingblue on Mar 10, 2004 15:06:40 GMT -5
Great pic!! I used to have a note somewhere on how to get to the larger versions. I can dig it up. But as far as I remember it didn't work when I tried it...
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Post by Ace on Mar 10, 2004 16:32:48 GMT -5
The previous trick was to replace the word "thumb" with "preview" in the direct thumbnail url. But that hasn't worked in months. Anyhow: Platinum TodayHollywood men show off platinum accessories - 10th March 2004 Read more about the platinum group metals markets in Johnson Matthey's bi-annual reviews click here. Not to be overshadowed by their female counterparts, Hollywood's leading men opted for platinum pieces to round off their debonair Oscar night attire. Host Billy Crystal led the way, sporting a pair of Harry Winston platinum and cabochon sapphire and 'crystal' studs and cufflinks. Meanwhile 'Best Actor' nominee, Johnny Depp looked suave as he donned a platinum, onyx and diamond dress set. Funnyman Jim Carrey also chose platinum for some serious style, selecting platinum cufflinks by Alan Freidman and a platinum and diamond arrow pin by Neil Lane. Actor Will Ferrell also opted for platinum's sophisticated urbane qualities, finishing off his look with a pair of platinum, iolite and diamond cufflinks by Erica Courtney. Other A-list celebrities who walked the red-carpet in style with platinum include Jude Law, Will Smith and Pierce Brosnan who took a hint from James Bond's smart attire, wearing a pair of Neil Lane platinum cufflinks.
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Post by Yuliya on Mar 10, 2004 16:49:13 GMT -5
Now, I really wonder - do designers send everybody with a press id a list of their creations per celebrity per event? Because no jewelry designer can tell platinum cufflinks from white gold ones from distance, and most fashion reporters probably can't tell who designed some dresses with 100% accuracy, either.
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Post by curious george on Mar 10, 2004 20:54:30 GMT -5
You're kidding, right? Of course they do - they use every single piece of merchandise they can for advertising via celebrities. Don't know how the trade-offs are always made, but that's part of the game, not unlike the new boom of product placement in movies and TV shows. I believe that's what's called being "all about the Benjamins." (even if that phrase is a bit passe) ;D cg
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