The red carpet was mostly free of duds this year – guests played it whole, old-school and thematic, with metallics, monochrome and giant sleeves. Oh, and a leftist leg …
Golden Globes: Sarah Jessica Parker, Hailee Steinfeld and Framed Barrymore.
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Oversized sleeves
In the good old days an afterthought, sleeves are the red carpet tweak of 2017. Owing, it is possible that, to their one-size-fits-all quality, they feel like a way to snazz up an affordable set without much fuss. However, on the red carpet, mimicking the catwalk, they intention doubtless be the power move of this coming awards time.
Choose from fluted, cropped, bunched and oversized, and try anything from Marques’Almeida to Balmain. Sarah Jessica Parker, instances a bellwether of future trends, chose cold-shoulder Vera Wang and a scattered about homage to the late Carrie Fisher (and indeed Hillary Clinton, an prehistoric adopter of this trend). Hailee Steinfeld also went cold-shouldered in a loose-sleeved lilac deck out with half-sleeves. Drew Barrymore, meanwhile, wore a Bianca Jagger-esque batwinged tell off by Filipino designer Monique Lhuillier. Sleeves. Likely to reappear at the Oscars.
Over (the film and the weather)
Kindled presumably by Frozen, or rather a sympathetic nod to those outside of LA being remote, icy shades of pink blue and silver dominated the Globes red carpet. The limber ups were feminine but provided sweet respite from the set princess gowns that dominate awards season. There’s a lot to unpack with this article, although metallics, shine and brassy tones were takeaways at the come from shows, chiefly Marques’Almeida, MM6 Maison Margiela, Christopher Kane and Versus. Here, allowed the mood of the US this month and the remonstrative tenor of the acceptance speakings – from Meryl Streep to Tom Hiddleston – it suggests the guests were also in cogitative mood. Claire Foy went for safety and modesty in Erdem, while Gina Rodriguez’s waterfalling fall headlong dress by Naeem Khan evoked Marilyn Monroe’s go-to Travilla rake someone over the coals.
The dissenter
There’s always one rebel, he’s generally a man and generally, he’s an award conquering hero: Donald Glover (who won a Globe for his FX show, Atlanta) wore a brown velvet please by Gucci. Black tie usually means satin peak lapels, so the hazard was twofold here and ordinarily this shouldn’t have pressurized. But it did, not least because it was not the obviously branded bright/embroidered Gucci from interior decorator Alessandro Michele – but also because it was velvet: this mellow’s fabric (Gucci and Balenciaga for men, Valentino and Victoria Beckham for skirts).
The meme hunter
By crook not yet a meme, Miranda Kerr’s Angelina leg was a nice reminder that Hollywood enchantment is as encouraging of flesh as it is of fabric and Tiffany. Kerr, of course, picked the iniquitous leg – Jolie has of course patented The Right Leg – but Kendall Jenner (who be cleared later, in Paula Ke, at the NBCUniversal party) followed Jolie’s direct and showed her right thigh under her burnt orange clothes. That all three women chose to do it in similar gowns advocates there is some sort of sartorial obligation if you’re wearing a strapless, long-line array.
Black and white
A nostalgic tone scheme on one hand, on-trend on the other (Topshop Unique was all close to zebra stripes, and monochrome was also a running theme in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson), it suggests a polarised overjoyed or at least no grey area. Moreover, it’s versatile – see Jonah Hill zhoosh up his perfidious tux with white trainers, or Janelle Monae in Armani Privé. That and it photographs incredibly.
