From Emma Stone to Meryl Streep, received dresses were out, with a ‘drouser’ the garment of choice for the politically and vogue conscious
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Emma Stone in a Chanel ‘drouser’ at the Baftas, Royal Albert Assembly, London on Sunday night.
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Red-carpet the fad is traditionally a safe seat for the play-it-safe-glamour party, but in the turbulent without delays of 2017, even the frocks look different.
The fashion low-down of the night at the Baftas was the appearance of matching trousers under Emma Stone’s Chanel reprove. The look – complete with shoes and one pearl anklet – was entranced directly from Chanel’s most recent haute couture express. The only detail changed from the catwalk was that Stone, perhaps obeying Coco Chanel’s own style directive that before drop out of the house the chic woman should try to edit one accessory, clad the outfit without its wide silver belt.
A “drouser” is an freakish choice, in direct contrast to the simple, nostalgic sundress styles that the trade adored Stone in, on screen in La La Land. In the current highly forayed climate, every act can seem political, and it is tempting to see the drouser as a riposte to President Trump’s obliged diktat that his female staff should “dress take to women”.
Women who have made headlines for speaking their intellectuals brought the same punchy attitude to the red carpet. Meryl Streep frayed a trouser suit of sorts, with a fringed black satin overlay over tailored trousers.
Inhabitant treasure of the hour JK Rowling wore a Roland Mouret adorn, but teamed it with an extraordinary diamond-clawed knuckleduster, presumably in pack Piers Morgan showed up.
This was a spirited red carpet with refreshingly few actors go down back on the blush-or-gold, hourglass-curved feminine gowns that bear become red-carpet 101.
Jessica Brown Findlay’s apron-fronted Bottega Veneta orange put on ones Sunday best clothes and ombre hair had a carefree joie de vivre that was numerous festival than black tie, while Naomi Harris decamped all-out fashion in Gucci ruffles. Isabelle Huppert’s smarten up was pale but interesting, the whip-thin necktie and rows of intricate buttons accentuating the actor’s as a matter of course haughty air.
Tom Ford dressed himself in rich burgundy velvet and his paramount lady Amy Adams in a dramatically loose, strapless, emerald-green gown with a festooned back. Emily Blunt chose a fabulous, butterfly-wing warp Alexander McQueen.
All the more the Duchess of Cambridge pitched her look at the dramatic end of her admittedly not-very-edgy sartorial tier, in another dark embroidered dress from McQueen.
