Kate Beckinsale looked gorgeous in a shimmering assymetrical dress complimented by Neil Lane diamond earrings and a large gold diamond platinum cocktail ring.

Katy Perry returned to her glamorous side. The I Kissed a Girl singer appeared on the red carpet wearing a perfect Zuhair Murad gown, H. Stern jewels, Judith Leiber clutch and Jimmy Choo shoes.

Kristen Stewart did her best to look good but dresses definitely don’t fit her. the young actress sported a midnight blue strapless dress by Monique L’Hullier.

Natalie Portman looked beautiful in her short metallic Lanvin dress, Tiffany jewels and Aldo shoes.

Nicole Richie arrived at the event with her husband. The couple didn’t separate the whole evening. The long sparkling frock Nicole wore to the party didn’t flatter her at all. The designer looked too old and tired in it.

Olivia Wilde opted for a lighter look. Her beige dress with a long zip in front looked pretty. It was accessorized with red satin Ferragamo peep toe shoes.

Vanessa Hudgens looked super sexy in a black glitzy dress with extremely low cut. The star was perfect. Zac Efron tried to be as close to her as possible!

Victoria Beckham donned a dress from her own Fall 2010 collection. The frock looked nice but it was hardly better than other dresses at the party, though Posh had hoped to be the prettiest.

Abbie Cornish seems to have a very good choice and understading of what flatters her body. The girl looked wonderful in a dark blue gown with a chic-looking detail in front.

See other ladies and tell me which outfit you like the most.

Bar Refaeli

Cameron Diaz in Victoria Beckham dress

Charlize Theron in Christian Dior gown

Demi Lovato

Emma Roberts

Hilary Swank in Armani Prive gown

Jennifer Lopez in Gucci dress

Jessica Simpson

Kate Bosworth in Valentino

]]> http://www.millionlooks.com/outfits/fashion-at-2010-vanity-fair-oscar-party/feed/ 1 http://www.millionlooks.com/outfits/16th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards/ http://www.millionlooks.com/outfits/16th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:20:36 +0000 Veronica Valter http://www.millionlooks.com/?p=20344 This Saturday 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were held in Los angeles, California. And as usual lots of beautiful women attended the event wearing chic dresses.

Red on the red carpet doesn’t look bad. Mariah Carey just proves that with her red assymetrical gown. Her earrings are spectacular!

Christina Hendricks was red hot wearing a magical red one-shoulder dress with golden earrings and bracelets.

Carey Mulligan rocked a sumptuous red frock with a beautiful flower brooch on the waist.

Blue color was especially popular that day. Lots of beautiful women chose blue dresses to sparkle on the red carpet. Tina Fey was one of those and she looked very charminig! Her dress was Ferragamo’s creation and looked perfect.

Gabourey Sidibe opted for a blue gown too. The girl looked happy being at the event. Speaking about her style I can’t say what I really think of it because all I can concentrate looking on her is her body… Sorry for that.

Jenna Fisher looked glamorous wearing a navy blue bustier dress. A glitzy clutch was perfect to match the attire.

Very feminine-looking was Christina Applegate who went for an airy Roberto Cavalli gown, a sparkling clutch and fabulous jewelry.

Vera Farmiga’s sky-blue dress looked great on the actress flattering her complexion wonderfully.

Samantha Harris went for a look of Grecian goddess in blue. The dress was nice but accessories were chosen wrongly.

The blue dress by Monique Lhuillier that Drew Barrymore sported to the Awards was a real disappointment for me. The second skirt ruined evrything by breaking the girl’s silhuette unflatteringly.

Julianna Margulies looked stunning in a floor length blue velvet Narciso Rodriguez halter dress.

Anna Paquin amazed everyone when she arrived to the event wearing a dress from (You wouldn’t believe it!!!) Alexander McQueen Spring-Summer 2010 futuristic sea-inspired collection. She looked glorious and was obviously the trendiest girl of the evening! By the way, she wore normal shoes, not those monster ones the designer created to go with dress.

Anna Kendrick looked super-pretty donning a purple floor-sweeping dress by Alberta Ferretti. I loved her bracelet!

Meryl Streep was gorgeous in her green-white-black gown. She was a perfect example of a woman who knows what heradvantages are!

Sandra Bullock looked nice in her black gown from Alexander McQueen. Those vivid blue neck details made her look very fresh and young.

Kate Hudson again opted for white. This time it was a strapless gown with a waist detail. Looked good!

The dress I really loved was Nicole Kidman’s one from Oscar de la Renta. The gown was a combination of bronze, red, and teal. And it was sequin embroidered.

Penelope Cruz wore a simple black dress that complemented her figure a lot.

Diane Kruger selected a yellow-toned dress with a long train and looked perfect in it. And what is more important is that was a real stand-out of blue-red-black group of ladies.

Naomi Cambell was a star in the Yves Saint Laurent’s autumn/winter 2008-9 campaign. But Claudia Schiffer replaced Naomi in YSL spring/summer 2009 ad campaign and became new face of the brand.

Schiffer’s starring in campaigns for Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, and Salvatore Ferragamo this season.

The YSL campaign was photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadib in LA last month, reports WWD

In November 2008 Claudia Schiffer also did a beautiful photoshoot for Italian Vogue.

Celebrities demonstrated their glam style at the Whitney Museum American Art Gala in NYC on October 20.

Pretty Christina Ricci, young Emma Roberts and Helena Christensen were on trend in their dark grey gowns while Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey were red carpet ready as ordinary. Christina Ricci was in a backless embroidered gown designed by Donatella.

The Nancy Drew Emma Roberts wore a shiny black strapless dress teamed with a pair of funky strappy black heels, both from Versace.

The benefit was sponsored by Donatella’s fashion house. The theme of this year’s event was “Whitney — Past, Present and Future” but seeing the celebrity studded red carpet, the art wasn’t the only thrilling sight that night.

Anne Hathaway arrived in stylish dress by Zac Posen while promoting her new film, Rachel Getting Married, on Tuesday evening at the London Film Festival on October 21.

I think she looks perfect! But she needs beautiful necklace for complete image.

Penelope Cruz looked absolutely beautiful on the red carpet at the London Film Festival, for the UK premiere of her new movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona.  She posed for photographers in her little black dress by L’Wren and in a jacket.

Gwyneth Paltrow, 36,  presented in the wet London weather her latest movie Two Lovers as part of the London Film Festival.

She unusually wore flat gladiator sandals by Charlotte Olympia for Temperley for the occasion evidently due to an affronted knee.

She wore  a black draped and plisse full length gown by Salvatore Ferragamo with asymmetrical bodice and metal gancio detail with black silk satin ribbon (Spring Summer 2009 collection) and a fur Felder and Felder jacket with leather sleeves adding texture to her ensemble. Gwyneth Paltrow accessorized her look with Chopard jewels.

Beauful Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony attended the 25th annual Night of Stars hosted by Fashion Group International at Cipriani Wall Street on October 23 in NYC.

She was wearing a one-shoulder pale mauve dress with trappy silver heels. Her image was classic and elegant

Nicole Richie attended the 30th Anniversary Carousel Of Hope Ball benefiting The Barbara Davis Center For Childhood Diabetes in Beverly Hills on October 25.

She was dressed in gold sequined Reem Acra gown.

Katharine McPhee wore it ‘oh so right’ in this black satin halter-neck Jenny Packham (Falll 2008) gown.

The sales are booming as never before. However, retro footwear is not so popular with collectors. Probably, it’s just a matter of time…

Some footwear designers have created their recent collections on the basis of vintage ones.

For example, in the early 2000s, Miu Miu, inspired by Terry de Havilland’s Seventies’ platforms, produced a collection leading to a resurrection of the shoe designer’s career. Now de Havilland’s fantastic pop-art python-skin heels regularly sell for high prices at auctions.

Original shoes by top designers of the past such as Andre Perugia, Beth Levine and Roger Vivier are also hunted down by collectors from various countries.

Kate Moss was photographed in vintage footwear, sparking great interest in the original models of shoes.

Cate Blanchett caused a stir when she was photographed at the Helpmann Awards in Australia wearing a nice pair of vintage limited-edition Roger Vivier stilettos, studded with Swarovski crystals.

There are still plenty of retro shoes available, many of them by iconic designers, for relatively little money.

You can buy a pair for half a price of your skirt or blouse.

Here is a list of retro shoes designed by couturiers of the past. They surely deserve your attention and can be good pieces in any collection.

Salvatore Ferragamo Stilettos

Mid-fifties

Salvatore Ferragamo is famous for the quality of his craftsmanship and the extravagance of his designs. His stilettos were considered glamorous and a whole generation of Hollywood stars loved wearing them.

Marilyn Monroe was one of those who preferred his heels, she owned 40 pairs.

From 1956, stilettos became much higher after the Italians started to strengthen plastic heels by running an aluminium spigot down the shaft.

Perhaps the most well-known pair of Ferragamo stilettos were the scarlet satin rhinestone-studded stilettos that became famous after Marilyn Monroe starred wearing them in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell show off their footwear in Some Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

In 1999 the original shoes were sold at Christies in New York for $42,000.

It’s worth collecting them for they represent the glamour of a golden Hollywood age and just because they look beautifully and are perfectly made.

Roger Vivier Pilgrim Pump

Early sixties

These shoes were very popular with ladies in the early Sixties. They were flat and square-toed, designed to be worn with short skirts.

In 1965, Vivier’s series of Pilgrim pumps, as they were later called, complemented a collection of Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrian-inspired mini-dresses.

The shoes became incredibly popular among duchesses and ordinary dolly birds as they looked nice and were comfortable and easy to wear.

That year Vivier sold over 200,000 pairs. His customers were the Duchess of Windsor and Catherine Deneuve, Jackie Onassis, and many other famous women.

Christian Louboutin, a shoe designer says:

Vivier’s shoes spoke by themselves. He understood that a shoe has a bone structure and that has to be perfect. He covers his shoes with beautiful embroidery and embellishment, but underneath it all is a perfect plain pump with perfect proportions – pure perfection.’

You can collect them for at least two reasons: the Pilgrim pump was the most imitated shoe shape of the decade and it is associated with the sophisticated chic of Sixties Paris.

Andre Courreges Ankle Boot
1964

In the early Sixties, such boots were considered to be fit only for old ladies. The Parisian couturier Courreges changed all that. His space-age ankle boots became extremely popular when they were shown in his 1964 Moon Girl collection. It was more than a sensation.

The boots were comfortable, easy to pull on and off, in soft white kid.

However, Courreges soon got furious as some shoe designers, such as Kurt Geiger, Sacha and Ravel, started copying the boot.

He had to ban the Press from his shows for the next few seasons.

You can add them to your collection since many fashion pundits are tipping the Sixties for the next big retro revival, so get in first with some covetable originals, which also play a fascinating part in fashion history.

To be continued…

Shoes are contemporary jewelry, designer Donatella Versace once said, and in recent years they have become an integral part of a designer’s fashion statement.

While Salvatore Ferragamo invented the wedge, it was Dolce & Gabbana that did the most with the form this season. But Fendi, Marni, Moschino and Frankie Morello were nipping at their heels.

Оne season Armani refined the running shoe by pairing it with chiffon evening outfit.

In the 1990s the stiletto became a symbol for spicy chic. More recently, antebellum platforms and wedges thought to have been relegated to the back of grandmather’s recess became super hot again, especially with teens. The heels have become more higher with each season, and the inches are evidently taking their toll.

Catwalks models at this week’s preview shows in Milan stumbled, slipped and in the case of one model wearing ankle-strapped high-heels at Prada — toppled over.

I was having a panic attack, my hands were shaking. The heels were so high,” one of the models said. “Some of the girls were crying backstage they were so scared.”

Prada

Prada’s spring/summer collection 2009, shown at Milan Fashion Week, was thus a high-tech take on “cave-woman couture”, expressed in snake-print sheath-dresses, fish-prints and burnished gold brassieres with matching pencil skirts and jackets. The real culprit were the super high platform shoes.

It was all about the shoes, and not in a nice way. The mile-high platform shoes strapped on over what appeared to be Prada’s take on Peds might have been impressive, had half of the girls not had major trouble walking and thus shown totally petrified.

From WWD,

The mile-high platforms strapped on over what appeared to be Prada’s take on Peds might have been impressive, had half of the girls not had major trouble walking and thus looked absolutely petrified.

According to the Daily Mail, the problem was slippery socks, which caused Prada’s runway models to lose grip.

I wrote about Gucci collection in “Blue fantasy Spring-Summer 2009 by Gucci”. It was all in the accessories, where Gucci really thrives, with triple-strap platform sandals, ethnic jewellery, and swag backpacks.

Pucci

The Pucci silk prints were gripping, tending for daytime to be in one-colour or featuring abstract palm leaf prints.

For evening, Pucci made prints out of a innumerable of stitched-together crystal beads on a gold background.

Gold also made up the high-heel of Pucci’s summer shoes. But seemingly extra height makes the footwear as perfidious as it is gorgeous.

Dolce & Gabbana

Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce duo accessorized their sumptuous silk dresses with sparkling and soaring platform sandals.

The super-high platforms were also used for their dreamy ball gowns in tulle and embellished roses. Dolce vindicated the towering look, saying that every girl has the right to dream.

Fendi

The Fendi runway show featured models wearing wild pinned-up hairstyles and futuristic lace outfits girthed at the waist by a wide sash.

The look may have been unusual, but the universal effect was still the elegant and easygoing look preferred by Italian designers for the summer 2009.

The shoes at Fendi were strangely windless, though, particularly for the house that made metal ankle straps a fashion fetish.

The high heels were never high, and favored was an open-toed saddle shoe fitted with a convenient wedge.