In the vein of what I said about Madonna earlier, let’s talk about KNOWING YOUR AUDIENCE:
One does not wear a Philip Treacy Feather Mohawk Headpiece and velvet tartan thigh-high Louboutins and a crazy ballgown to, say, the premiere of I Don’t Know How She Does It or that time you presented the Nobel prize in chemistry or whatever. You wear it to a formal event where the theme is “punk,” and you REALLY wear it when you start to get to the point in your life when you’re trying to figure out how best to become more eccentric. Because OF COURSE this is eccentric. But it is also fun, and it’s almost on topic, and I really wish three-quarters of the other people who attended this event had called SPJ and asked her for some advice on how to put that off — because many of them just gave up. And no one likes a quitter. (I like to think that this entire monologue was also just delivered by the gesticulating dude standing behind her to his rather un-punk looking companions, Marion Cotillard and Jennifer Lawrence. [Yes! This IS Raf Simons, the Dior designer; I meant to check when I wrote this last night and totally spaced out; thanks, Fug Nation!])
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Well Played, Sarah Jessica Parker
After coming to last year’s Met Ball as a hideous Versace throw-pillow, Sarah Jessica Parker had kind of a rough year for the fug. So perhaps getting to go full-on awesomely costumey this year will hit SJP’s reset button.
It’s not super elaborate, but the pattern is striking, the hit of turquoise is really pretty, and it’s flattering — it makes her look tall, which we all know that even in heels she is not. The twin cuffs might be a touch too much, but basically, I think this is a good example of her simply picking a really, really nice dress and looking really, really nice in it. There doesn’t always have to be a statement any louder than that.
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