Belles of the Red Carpet...
Blake Lively: "Gossip Girl" star and this season's "Lagerfeld It Girl", Blake Lively, wearing Chanel Haute Couture Spring 2009 to the
Green Lantern Premiere in Hollywood. This gown--if ordered--would probably set you back about $50,000. Yep, that's right--I think the "Movie Premiere What To Wear" ante has been raised when actresses such as Lively show up in Haute Couture kids!!!
She stars in the print ad for the new
Chanel Mademoiselle handbag, shot by Karl Lagerfeld of course. I assume it's probably in her contract to wear Chanel and nothing but Chanel at her red carpet appearances and/or events--or at least some of them. Lots of actresses and/or Design Houses carve that out as part of their contract.
We'll see how much Chanel Miss Lively can wear in the next coming months...hopefully it will all be Haute Couture!!!
Eva Longoria: Eva Longoria showed up in a mint-green lace over satin one-shoulder corset dress from
Monique Lhuillier to the
Mexican American Legal Defense And Education Fund Awards. She looks pretty and 50's elegant. Love those stacked silver metallic pumps! Somehow--as high and as prominent as they are--they still don't take away from the entire look. Notice how the runway sample on the right hits the model above the knee. On Miss Eva, it covers it.
Alicia Keys: At first look, I had to do a double-take! I didn't even realize it was Alicia Keys. I thought it was model
Petra Nemcova originally (what do I know?? I was
really off!!). But indeed, here is Alicia Keys wearing
Custom Givenchy Haute Couture by Ricardo Tisci to the
Keep A Child Alive Black Ball. So, let me get this right: It's
Haute Couture--which means one-of-a-kind
and hand-made and VERY VERY EXPENSIVE!--and it is also
Custom? Is that redundant? Or just really really REALLY expensive!?
Gwyneth Paltrow: Actress, Country-singer/
"Glee" Phenom and Spanish-language-fluent
Gwyneth Paltrow is NOT wearing
Haute Couture here (well, at least we got one girl!!). In fact, she's wearing a poly jersey "Grecian" draped cocktail dress from NYC fashion
wunderkind Alexander Wang to the
3rd Annual Bent On Learning Benefit. Well done Miss Paltrow. You know how much I also love them Grecian draped dresses so you ain't gonna hear anything negative here...
