We don’t normally feature magazine spreads here, because, well, we figure that’s what the magazines themselves are for, but we couldn’t resist this time, because we absolutely love these photos of Michelle Williams, shot by Annie Leibovitz for the October edition of Vogue.
Michelle plays Marilyn Monroe in the new film, My Week With Marilyn, and channels the blonde bombshell perfectly in these images, thus guaranteeing that we’ll watch the film for the fashion alone.
The October issue of US Vogue is on news-stands from September 22nd.
It must suck having a movie premiere during Fashion Week. There you are, dressed to the nines, possibly looking better than you have in years, posing and pouting like your life depends on it (Which, in the world of celebrity fashion, IT TOTALLY DOES), and no one even notices because they’ll all too busy worrying about who was sitting front row at Marc Jacobs, and whether Anna Wintour has managed to crack a smile yet. (Note: she hasn’t.)
Luckily for the poor celebrities who paraded their fashion finest at the I Don’t Know How She Does It premiere, The Fashion Police still care. We’re there for you, celebrities. Or, at least, we’re there to haul your ass to jail if you start committing crimes of fashion. Sorry, but that’s how it goes.
Sarah Jessica Parker herself left us underwhelmed on this occasions, so we’re leading today with Christina Hendricks, who wore her breasts, we mean a salmon pink dress. Take a look at the gallery to see what everyone else wore, and, of course, to tell us what you think…
Is there a way to circumvent the Peep Toe Boots rule, and actually make the shoes that dare not speak their name work? That was the question we posed in last week’s Style Challenge, and now here are your answers!
Thanks to everyone who took part in this: your outfits have swayed even us! Now, take a look through the gallery and then vote for your favourite in the poll you’ll find under the jump!
We’re not fans of the “Look at me! LOOK AT MEEEEEEEE! I’m so wild and kerrraazyy! Say I’m wild and kerrazy!” school of “fashion” some stars go to. To us, it pretty much just translates as “I can’t get attention any other way, and I really need attention, so I’ve dressed like I fell out of the Ugly Clothes Tree and hit every branch on the way down!” It’s not big, it’s not clever, and it’s definitely not “edgy”, because let’s face it: throwing on a bunch of mis-matched clothes doesn’t exactly take a lot of skill, does it? Any one of us could do it. It’s just that we don’t, because… we don’t actually have to bother finishing that sentence, do we?
Anyway, here’s Nicki Minaj at New York Fashion Week, trying to out Gaga Gaga. And here, meanwhile, is Lady Gaga:
Almost as interesting as the runways themselves (And sometimes more interesting, if we’re totally honest), are the outfits the celebrities wear to the shows. Fashion Week, you see, strikes us as being a lot like Fashion High School. All that trying to get in with the cool kids and worrying about front row seating. And trying to look fashionable amongst the most fashionable crowd of all? It must create a wardrobe dilemma like no other.
Memebers of Westbro Baptist Church staged a protest against Fashion Week outside Lincoln Centre this weekend, before rolling the hate wagon onwards to protest at 9/11 memorials. Yeah, nice folks. So Christian!
Their spokesman, Steve Drain, had this message for the fashion lovers of the world:
“The whole thing is vanity! You’re going to teach the women, especially the young women of this country, to doll themselves up … All you are doing is teaching girls to be proud whores! The whole idea [of the] fashion industry is to make women look as whorish as possible and men look as effeminate at possible. Put some jeans on and fear God. Forget about all this fashion nonsense.”
So that told US, then! Putting jeans on now! God forbid people get… DOLLED UP!
Westbro also hate “fags”, women, and, well, just about everyone, basically. More reasonable Christian groups must be banging their heads off their desks right now and cursing them for preaching the exact OPPOSITE of love and tolerance.
We would say more about this – and honestly, the fashion-related comments are by far the LEAST offensive part of this group’s message, as you can see from the image above – but honestly, it would be like shooting fish in a barrel, wouldn’t it? After all, they’re doing such a good job of discrediting themselves that our work here is done…
Aww! Looks like our “Golf Club Watch” is over before it even started: stand down, officers! We were looking forward to seeing how Victoria Beckham would cope with the sartorial challenge of being forced to wear flat shoes for New York Fashion Week this year, but here she is this weekend, in a pair of Christian Louboutin boots which are as high as ever.
We’re assuming Victoria got the go-ahead from her doctor for this (she’d been suffering from a slipped disc, hence the “flat shoes” rule), so good for her: we’d still have loved to see her in flats for a change, though!
As consolation, here is a totally gratuitous shot of baby Harper Seven: awww!
