Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Kim Kardashian: Nordstrom Knockout
September 6th, 2010
Opting to spend the holiday weekend south of the border, a bikini-clad Kate Beckinsale and family were spotted living it up in Mexico over the past few days.
Joined by husband Len Wiseman and daughter Lily Mo Sheen, the “Underworld” actress split time between the pool and the shoreline – where she and her family busily constructed sand castles while soaking up the sun.
Having been taking a light workload while focusing on motherhood, Kate is readying to take part in the fourth installment of “Underworld” – which has been announced with a January 2012 release date.
Of the film, screenwriter John Hlavin boasted, “It will satisfy old fans and excite new audiences, meaning that we don’t want to redo the first three movies, so steps are being taken to honor what fans have loved but at the same time introduce fresh elements.”
FriendFriday: Fall Fashion, I mean FL-all FL-ashion #FBFF
September 6th, 2010
Emmy 2010 fashions were mostly, in a word, boring.
Somehow, for this year’s Emmy Awards’ fashions, safe seemed to rule the celebrity runway. The red carpet was littered with boring gowns either lacking detail (like poofs of ruffle) or shape. The always ubiquitous glitter ruled, as usual, and why am I supposed to care?
Ugly dresses were few and, as usual, often on wives; and they were tame. No one loves a bad dress, but we do love to spot them. A lot of the ugly dresses were ambiguous – “should I hate this or actually love it?”
While the ugly was tame, the fabulous was also safe. My favorite gown of the night, a trendy lace number that was much better on top than bottom, by Carolina Herrera on Dianna Agron, was actually hated by many in polls and thought to age the actress. Sure, I could give them that, but I didn’t see anything better or that I’d rather wear. Well I didn’t see those things on the stars although I had on the real runways.
On one of fashion’s most exciting nights to be home, in pajamas or whatever one wants, watching the action on television; there were few thrilling moments. There was the Agron gown, or at least the initial sighting of the bodice. There were Jane Krakowski’s blue teetering Ferragamo heels that were so high the tiny feet effect toppled the pair past sexy into adorable, but that’s right up my shoe alley. And there were Badgley Mischka shoes (worn by E!’s Giulianna Rancic) among some of their pairs I both cooed about in blogging and considered buying at Neiman Marcus Last Call. (Points off for accessibility?)
And there was of course McQueen, fabulous and questionable on Anna Paquin and carried as a clutch by Ricky Gervais’s date; one that I could barely make out on my medium “small screen”. Underwhelmed by the iffiness? Actually no, my current favorite show’s star in a dress immediately recognizable got me audibly excited; but how often did that happen?
Seeing the stars walk the red carpet even made me want to go watch the stars’ series and not the awards show, but later I came to find that I enjoyed the event; but did I enjoy it even more than the fashion?
I feel so blah about it all that I can’t muster the emotion to tell.
Bonus photo: The worst:
Particularly because I was able to do one of my favorite things: people watch. Though I generally enjoy people watching, I also enjoy observing what people wear, especially in a city as fashionable and risk-taking as San Francisco.
