Showing posts with label Jessica Biel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jessica Biel. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 19

Chanel SS12 face-off- Lily Donaldson vs. Jessica Biel
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Chanel SS12 face-off: Lily Donaldson vs. Jessica Biel
TFS, JustJared
I'm a complete sucker for these silly things, you will have noticed by now. I love commenting on how different people wear the same dress, even if it's completely irrelevant.
Lily Donaldson covers the July issue of Vogue Russia in the same Chanel dress Jessica Biel wore to the MTV Movie Awards about two weeks ago. This number for the SS12 collection is a bit of a tricky one because of the volume and length of the sleeves, which can look boxy.
I'm not sure about Lily's hair, although it does work on the cover, but Biel made the same mistake. She would have looked a lot better with her hair up – it usually works better with long-sleeve, closed-neck dresses – and she should have gone for a strappy sky-high sandal or stiletto. Her Barbara Bui shoes added a nice colour but the ankle strap cuts off her leg making her look shorter.
It's a shame because I love the scalloped effect that the texture of the knit dress creates. Kate Bosworth would have rocked the hell of out this piece!

What do you think? Vote below.

Monday, February 28

Oscars 2011: The unusual suspects

unusualsuspectsAs you know, I have more often than not strongly disagreed with Jessica Biel's red carpet choices. She always tends to wear boring, cheap-looking or quite simply horrible dresses to events. I can't come to terms with the fact that Justin Timberlake, one of the most stylish men in Hollywood, allows her to leave the house sometimes. But there is always hope, and stylists. I don't know if she has hired someone new, Zoe would do, but her SS11 Versace Atelier rocked my world. Even though we saw almost the entire collection at either on the red carpet or the stage I was happy to see my favourite pieces, such as this kind of patchwork sparkly number, in movement. Kate Beckinsale, on the other hand, is not someone I consider unstylish but just like Diane Kruger always wears Chanel, she always wears a dress white with a trail. So it was nice to see her in something more form-hugging and black. The choice, a Julien McDonald was a bit Amy Adams but I really loved the line of see-through gauze on the sleeves. Also, the hair was such a hit!
I'm off.

[Pictures: Celebrity-Gossip.net]

Monday, August 2

Unusual suspects

Jessica Biel's promotional tour for the A-Team has left me completely baffled. Not only she managed not to horrify us on a daily basis with her appearances outfits but she even looked fantastic two or three times. The clear winner was the red Giambattista Valli dress she wore for the London premiere (where else?) and that she accompanied with the wild hair trend Coco spotted a while ago. It was a beautiful and simple look but, for the first time with her, it had a bit of an edge thanks to the hair. During the time before and after the British premiere she was also seen in amazing outfits the likes of the Phillip Lim one below which proved she can look different but good. I am just hoping she keeps it up so we have to avoid more of her embarrassing red carpet moments.
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It was precisely because of Biel's unexpected turn that I started wondering whether Eva Mendes would experience something similar. This morning she attended the Regis & Kelly show in a (Dior/de la Renta?) dress as part of a look that is one of the best things I've ever seen her wear. The sunglasses were to-die-for and the shoes totally spot-on. Like Biel, I have disliked Mendes' style for longer than I can remember, which is probably why I'd be so fascinated with her undergoing a Biel-type style makeover.
I'm off.

[Pictures: JustJared.buzznet.com, Celebrity-Gossip.net]

Wednesday, June 9

CFDA 2010 awards

I feel like I haven't posted in years and today I am so inspired I could make about 12 posts. Alas, I am only human so I'll stick to a chronological order to relevance so neither of us go mental. Let's start with the CFDA awards from Monday night. This year I was quite excited for one of my favourite new designers, Joseph Altuzarra, to win the Swarovski Womenswear Designer of the Year award. But, apparently, it had to go to the more unoriginal Jason Wu. I was also disappointed by Marc Jacobs' win as I feel slightly iffy about him, both as a person and as a designer. However, the fact that Richard Chai and Alexander Wang won the Swarovski Menswear and Accessories awards, respectively, made me very happy.
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Fashion wise it wasn't a super exciting edition. I was happy to see the Olsens on their first official appearance at the awards as CFDA members but, even though they looked great, I always expect them to outshine everyone else. Something that didn't happen this year. My list of best dressed at this year's event even surprised me. My favourite above all was Vogue's Tonne Goodman, who won the Eleanor Lambert Award, in a Michael Kors outfit that pretty much epitomised classic East-coast style. Jessica Biel showed she can actually get it right every so often. She looked absolutely stunning a 30's glamour version of Diane Von Furstemberg's classic wrap dress. I can't explain why I like it so much but I look at it and it just feels right. Iris Apfel totally made my day by wearing one of Nicolas Ghesquière's Balenciaga jackets from SS09. I simply love the fact that a lady of her age can be so fashion-forward and still look appropriate. I really wish she was my grandma.
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What I always love about both the Met Ball and the CFDA awards is the fact that designers attend with their muses dresses in their designs. I thought Hayden Christensen in Richard Chai was absolutely genius, they both look so not-bothered. Pretty relaxed as well looked Altuzarra and Vanessa Traina, in a custom-made dress from the SS10 collection turned black for the occasion. Zac Posen looked better than his companion once again. He is a bit of a roller coaster when it comes to collections but he can dress, there is no doubt about that. And then we have Dakota Fanning, who gave Marchesa such a spin it didn't even look it had come from the hands of Georgina Chapman.
I'm off.

[Pictures: Style.com, Zimbio.com, JustJared.buzznet.com, Tommy Ton for Style.com]

Thursday, March 1

and the OSCAR goes to...

As promised, I'm back again. It's Oscar week and we have to take advantage of it!
By now, we already know who the winners are. But, do we know who the best and worst dressed were? Well, you would probably say YES to this, but you are actually wrong. Only soVIPzone knows how to go beyond glamour and glitter and provide you with the real DEAL on the Oscar fashions. So HERE we go!


You probably know her for being a beautiful but creepy she-elf, but this pale skin blondie is this year's winner for best dressed. Having the ability of going beyond pure glamour it's a difficul task to accomplish, but it is a piece of cake for Cate Blanchett, who always looks stunning. What a wonderful surprise it was finding out that she was wearing —God's design— Armani Privé. A straight full-lenght grey and black gown with an odd and yet exotic resemblance to middle-age mailles, covered with a gauze layer and delightfully culminated with Swarovski crystals and onyx both down at the bottom and in the top strap over the shoulder. This great piece serves both as gown and jewlery, but Cate decided to add earrings and a bracelet —also from Armani— matching the colors of the dress. She was the real QUEEN of the night.

Despite the perfection of the former elf's look, there were two more LADIES who made it to the TOP 3 this year.
First we have Jennifer Lopez. It's been a while since I last saw her looking genuinely classy. She either goes over the top trying to look very rich —which by the way it's a fact— or tries to look "down-to-earth" in a way that is far from successful. Bottomline, she ends up looking tacky. However, she must have had a revelation concerning this year's gown for these awards. Marchesa signed the greek goddess dress she wore. Greek goddess indeed; the cut and the fit are a thing of big perfection and the rows of diamonds on the neck and below the chest clear JLo of wearing any sort of jewels except earrings (by Lorraine Schwartz). In addition, the fact that she had a hair cut —thank God!— softens her whole look and makes her more of a goddess. The make-up was peRRfect and the color of the dress.., oh the color, very faded pale violet, almost white, is superb. I could only find a huuuge mistake on "la diva latina": accesories. The purse was great; I'm talking about Marc Anthony, she should have left him home having a steak with fries, he's looking skinnier every day.

I don't get why some people have critisized Cameron Diaz, her hair and her "wrong choice" for the dress. She is actually the third on my list of best dressed. As the smart —and gorgeous— girl that she is, she went for a gown that enhanced her tanned skin (due to daily surfing with new bf Kelly Slater) and that is synonymus with white. Where better to find the perfect white dress than Valentino who has devoted his whole Spring/Summer collection to white? It is hard to find a white dress that looks different from everything that's been done before, but this one is one of a kind. The train gives it the final touch, and I particularly love the two-part down-folded neckline; it's sort of a beachy wedding dress. I LOVE that Cameron went for emeralds on the earrings, they helped bringing out those deep seas that are her eyes and that drive us nuts. I'm sorry for the "blond-Cameron team" but I honestly think that she looks much better as a brunette; the hair, by the way, was exactly how it looked best: carrying on with that beachy vibe she was going on from the beginning. The rest of the accesories consisted of more diamonds —the other protagonists of the night— and the silver peep-toe sandals and purse. In the night of the Hollywood firmament Cam shined like the star she is.



* And now, for the big SCREW-UPS of the night...



It is a fact that pressure affects us while flying on a plane. This must be the effect that John Travolta's favourie hobby has had on his wife, Kelly Preston. After doing a lot of thinking this is the only possible explanation that I've come up with. It would be complete non-sense to wear THAT in a state of sanity. But thankfully —or sadly, I don't really know— she is not alone: "i signori" Domenico and Steffano (Dolce & Gabbana) have gone insane too. Their last collection is based on LEOPARD prints! Oh yeah, I'm freaking out like you guys! I never thought such a disaster could happen, but nowhere in my darkest thoughts it would have occured to me that a HUMAN person would actually wear any of that STUFF —they don't even have original designs. But, well, there're all kinds of people in this world, so there you go with Mrs. Travolta —grease lightning, oh grease lightning!


When did Oscar de la Renta start making "gowns-à-porter" for Wal-Mart? I wish I had known about that beforehand; so I wouldn't have been surprised when I first saw Jennifer Hudson's dress —or whatever that is. Is that piece of silver cardboard supposed to be a bolero jacket?!! I don't know, she just looks like the silver version of a Ferrero Rocher. And those hobbit feet coming out of the dark? Yuk! And have you noticed that there are pockets?! I wonder what they are doing there... Anyways, this american idol is not what girlZ dream about anymore. Period.

Even geniuses make mistakes. This is the case of Valentino and fashion Kaiser Karl Lagerfeld (for Chanel). And Anne Hathaway and Kirsten Dunst (respectively) have been their victims —they could have shown some taste, though. Miranda's fictitious girl, Anne Hathaway, looks like a rockstar who just got out of rehab and didn't have the time to think it over. That bow is a TRAGEDY in capital letters. You add white to that skin and you have the perfect sick look. Let's not talk about all that "scrap" she had on, shall we? My condolences to the designer. Wow! Really, I don't know what more to say. The pics speak for themselves. "Enjoy" them.




My beloved Dunst... she screwed up big time! I read that she didn't feel comfortable in it, but it's understandable not to think about being wrong with your choice when you are wearing Chanel. Please, take a look at the picture: is there anyone who actually thinks that a shirt-like neck and TONS of feathers and sequins over a see-thru fabric look OK?!?! Everything else was a fatal error too: that ring, the bracelet, make-up, hair... I can't talk any more s**t of Kirsten, I love her too much. See and judge for yourselves.
Last is Jessica Biel. First off, I don't know what the hell she was doing at the Oscars, she is more like Kid's Choice Awards. Second, who was the fool that let her in? Come on! Look at her! Her "chest" is all over the place and you can see her torches on thru the "gown". And third, what is that dressed made of? Fuchsia crepe paper? Oh and the black wannabe-suede belt from the nearest thrift store is so pretty! God, my sister playing to be a celeb with her sarong on looks better than that! This is for you, Jess: get a job, make some money and, PLEASE, don't try again next year!



Hope you enjoyed the special on the EVENT of the year —unless there's a Brit come-back anytime soon. I'm off.