Part ONE of our fave red carpet looks of the year is found HERE (along with an accompanying explanation as to why you shouldn’t look at this as a Best Dressed list)! Part TWO starts NOW!
Letitia Wright in Prada at the Golden Globes
Lorenzo has a great, longstanding love of fashion or textiles designed to look unfinished or degraded, but the effect can often come off gimmicky or a bit on the level of fashion student work. This, on the other hand, is gorgeous, refined, sophisticated and most important of all, complete. It doesn’t need more and it wouldn’t have worked with less. The balance in the design is exactly right and she looks amazing in it.
Viola Davis in Valentino Couture at the Cannes Film Festival
In the dictionary, this should be the illustration for “exuberant.” We tended to get a little pissy about the overuse of feathers in fashion this year, but this works not only because she’s clearly LIVING for it, but also because the design and style are so simple, practically minimalist, in fact. With the hair and that enormous feather wrap, she doesn’t need anything else to distract from what she’s serving.
Bad Bunny in Jacquemus at the Met Gala
We trust our point is made with that back shot. This is a sublime blend of masculine and feminine style tropes that avoids coming off queer. Not that there’s anything wrong with queer style, even if it’s worn by ostensibly straight people, but the longer we’re in this commenting game, the more we truly appreciate when straight guys find a way to be a little soft, dramatic and sensual while still being themselves.
Elle Fanning in Alexander McQueen at the Cannes Film Festival
She won’t ever fully give up the princessy styles that suit her so well and that have defined her public image for years. But as she becomes a more mature, more savvy performer, she’s allowed herself to play a little with princess tropes in a way that makes them feel more modern and in some cases, darker than the Disney standard. We like that this is a dusty pink and a pewter, rather than a vivid pink and a silver. There’s something a little disturbing about how the bog-standard princess trope of glittery flowers comes off more like a carapace or a form of fantasy armor than a romantic expression. It’s not so dark as to come off goth, just a little…off. She’s the Off Princess.
Lizzo in Dolce & Gabbana at the Grammy Awards
Lizzo has always been the queen of space-taking fashion. She likes her looks large, bold, and utterly impossible to miss. And she quite clearly does not subscribe to any ideas about using fashion to make yourself smaller or somehow more acceptable. She wants you to notice her, but more importantly, she wants you to be awed by her. What we love about this look is that it gives that dramatic, taking-up-space vibe that she likes, but it also opens up to reveal a more classic style of gown. The best of both worlds.
More to come in PART THREE!
[Photo Credit: Kevork Djansezian/NBC, Todd Williamson/NBC, Rich Polk/NBC, Christopher Polk/NBC, Amy Sussman/Getty Images, Courtesy of Prada, Abaca Press/INSTARimages, Mike Coppola/Getty Images, Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images, IPA/INSTARimages, Robert Smith/INSTARimages, Abaca Press/INSTARimages, Stewart Cook/CBS, Francis Specker/CBS, Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy]
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