2011 SAG Awards: Best and Worst Dressed

Oh how I love award show season! Sunday night was the SAG awards and the ladies really brought it...most of them. Check out my list of best and worst dressed below.



I always like to start with the bad news first....

Nicole Kidman in Nina Ricci. Ok the dress is gorgeous, I love the lace and the low back. Love the color. However...I take major issue with her necklace. I don't know what her stylist was smoking when she put that god awful necklace on her, but she should know better. You just do not put a necklace on a beautiful dress with a neckline that high. It should be a crime.

Fail Nicole.

Amy Adams in Herve Leroux. Again, I actually love the dress. It's gorgeous, and it fits her beautifully. Unfortunately, white is rather difficult to wear on the red carpet, so you really have to look great to pull it off. This color is just awful on her. She is too pale to be wearing it. If it were jewel tone like an emerald or jade color she would easily be one of my best dressed. But it's not. C'est la vie.

As a side note she should be wearing spanx. Everyone should know that when you're on the red carpet you wear them. She's not the only one guilty of this unfortunately, but she's the one I'm calling out. Spanx just pull everything in, and when you're wearing a dress this tight it's just a necessary evil.

Hailee Steinfeld in Prada. This dress was actually short when it went down the runway, so she had some length added to it. I do like it long more than I do short however, I can't look at this dress without thinking Chiquita Banana. I totally appreciate that she went with a young look and didn't overdo the hair and makeup. The stripes are just too much for me. She looked great at the Golden Globes though, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the Oscars.

And of course the best dressed ladies of the night:

Natalie Portman in Azzaro. THIS is how you pull of white! She looked amazing in this body-hugging dress. Her jewelry is perfection and she looks great showing off her baby bump. She really pulled it all togeher well, and I have nothing bad to say.

Mila Kunis in Alexander McQueen. She looks absolutely amazing. The color is stunning on her and I think it fits her perfectly. I love that she's such a short girl, but you would never know that when you see her on the red carpets because she makes such great dress choices. She was also wearing about $300,000 worth of Cartier jewelry so you know, that always helps. She was definitely my best dressed, followed closely by Natalie Portman. Of course I am partial to McQueen...and to Mila.

Jennifer Lawrence in Louis Vuitton. Let me preface this by saying, the black belt was a win but the bow...the bow I hate. I do dislike bows in general so I'm not an impartial party here. If she had simply turned the bow around to the back and left a clean black belt in the front it would be perfect.

January Jones in Carolina Herrera. I have to say, I don't usually approve of January Jones' dress choices so this was a total surprise. Especially after that Versace mess she wore to the Golden Globes, which was arguably one of the worst dresses there. The dress is chic, and the hair is perfect. Notice the lack of jewelry near with the high neckline...ahem Ms. Kidman.

Most of the ladies really hit it out of the park this year. I would like to mention that not all of my worst dressed ladies made are listed above *ahem* Jenna Fischer you know who you are. SO excited for the Oscars in a couple of week!

Chanel ≥ Heaven

There is absolutely no one that can do couture like Chanel, and this week was a perfect example. The standard structured jackets are still a staple this season, but the dresses on the other hand are light and airy, something we don't always see from Karl Lagerfeld. Sheer metallic fabrics were adorned with a total of ten million beads (yep, you read that correctly) to create looks that were etherial in nature. The line was actually inspired by Marie Laurencin, who in 1923 was commissioned to paint a portrait of Coco Chanel (seen below). Laurencin painted her wearing a black and blue draped dress. Though Chanel requested the portrait, the creator of the LBD (little black dress) wasn't satisfied, and refused to buy the painting claiming that it did not look like her. It now sits in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris. Annnd that's your history lesson for the day. Below you'll find my favorites from the Chanel runway and boy are the doozies. Karl Lagerfeld can do not wrong in my book.

Painting of Coco Chanel

By far my favorite piece from this collection. I mean honestly...amazing.

J'adore Dior

It's Haute Couture Week in Paris, which means tons of meticulously hand-crafted pieces are floating down the Parisien runways as we speak. Unless you have so much money that you can't possibly figure out what to do with it all, (in which case hi, let me introduce myself because I am more than qualified to take that cash off of your hands...as a favor of course) or you plan to attend the Oscars (as a nominee, not just a seat filler) you have zero chance of getting your hands on one of these amazing dresses. This is where I come in. The looks for Christian Dior this season had a very retro 1950's vibe, that was mixed in with romantic frilly frocks, the likes of which would make any fashionista swoon. The headpieces were a-maz-ing, and totally completed these looks. Check out some of my absolute favorites below.

I am a total sucker for structured shoulders right now!

Flowers, and feathers, and ruffles ...oh my! John Galliano, you've done it again!

Le Sigh....

Fact: I have been such a bad blogger over the past 3 months. And by bad blogger I obviously mean non-existent blogger.
Fact: There is a quick fix for this particular issue...begin blogging again! So with it being the start of a new year and all, (yes I realize I'm almost a month late on this but bear with me folks) I am vowing to be a more reliable blogger, and to increase said blogging efforts ten-fold. So to conclude: yay, I'm back!