Post by candy on Jan 16, 2010 1:18:28 GMT -5
Tomorrow the Golden Globes will mark the official beginning of the international 2010 fashion yearabercrombie. [/color]Unroll the red carpet and unpack your gowns! Bring on the paparazzi and magazine ¡°people¡± pages!
Yet, in spite of the fact that various (non-fashion) people keep coming up to me and announcing they ¡°feel in their bones it¡¯s going to be a great year¡±, a number of things about the show are giving me pause for thought. For unlike last year¡¯s Globes, where Jennifer Lopez in plunging gold Marchesa and Drew Barrymore in bias-cut Dior ice-blue chiffon provided a sort of glamour-based antidote to the prevailing recessionary gloom,
a fashion statement Abercrombie and fitch men about dressing up in the face of adversity, this year clothes seem destined to play a much smaller role in the proceedings. From films to figureheads, the emphasis, it is a-changin¡¯.
It was clear things would be different as soon as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced they had decided to pick a host for the first time since 1995, and that host would be none other than ... that great British fashionplate Ricky Gervais. Tom Ford, where are you when we need you?
Busy dressing his Best Actor (Drama) nominee, Colin Firth, apparently. In contrast to Oscar hosts such as
the super-suave Hugh Jackman or the trim and tailored Billy
Crystal, Gervais has made something of a name
for himself by playing a schlub ¨C not just on-screen in The Office and the films Ghost Town and The Invention
of Lying but in real life, stalking the streets of New York in baggy T-shirts abercrombie saleand gym shortsabercrombie and fitch. He even admitted on his blog, rather proudly, that last spring he toured the White House in his pyjamas, as when the invitation came from the Obamas all his proper clothesabercrombie sale were at the dry cleaners.
Yet, in spite of the fact that various (non-fashion) people keep coming up to me and announcing they ¡°feel in their bones it¡¯s going to be a great year¡±, a number of things about the show are giving me pause for thought. For unlike last year¡¯s Globes, where Jennifer Lopez in plunging gold Marchesa and Drew Barrymore in bias-cut Dior ice-blue chiffon provided a sort of glamour-based antidote to the prevailing recessionary gloom,
a fashion statement Abercrombie and fitch men about dressing up in the face of adversity, this year clothes seem destined to play a much smaller role in the proceedings. From films to figureheads, the emphasis, it is a-changin¡¯.
It was clear things would be different as soon as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced they had decided to pick a host for the first time since 1995, and that host would be none other than ... that great British fashionplate Ricky Gervais. Tom Ford, where are you when we need you?
Busy dressing his Best Actor (Drama) nominee, Colin Firth, apparently. In contrast to Oscar hosts such as
the super-suave Hugh Jackman or the trim and tailored Billy
Crystal, Gervais has made something of a name
for himself by playing a schlub ¨C not just on-screen in The Office and the films Ghost Town and The Invention
of Lying but in real life, stalking the streets of New York in baggy T-shirts abercrombie saleand gym shortsabercrombie and fitch. He even admitted on his blog, rather proudly, that last spring he toured the White House in his pyjamas, as when the invitation came from the Obamas all his proper clothesabercrombie sale were at the dry cleaners.