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| Angelina Jolie Elie Saab 2009 |
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| Nicole Kidman Balenciaga 2007 |
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| Mila Kunis Elie Saab 2011 |
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| Hilary Swank Guy Laroche 2005 |
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| Gwyneth Paltrow Ralph Lauren 1999 |
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| Michelle Williams Vera Wang 2006 |
The beloved award season is coming to a close this Sunday with the Academy Awards. May I be as bold to call it the Super Bowl for petty Us Magazine readers? If it was up to me I would have a champagne party every year - a party at which it were required to laugh and gasp and awe at the actors and actresses walking down the red carpet. But alas, I am living in Oslo, Norway, a town where it is apparently extremely difficult to figure out when the "biggest award season of the year" is on TV. And if it is like the Golden Globes it will be on practically in the middle of the night and I will be struggling to stay awake in my coffee stained pajamas... who is laughing and gasping now?
In true Oscar tradition I have decided to give my list of favorite Oscar dresses. They are in no particular order, but I do think Angelina Jolie's gown has to be one of my all time favorites. Everything was perfect: her makeup, the hair and those Lorraine Schwartz emerald jewels - they were fabulous. Next on the list? Michelle Williams' sunflower Vera Wang gown. So stunning, but not everyone will agree with my love for the gown. I might feel the same if it were on someone else, but on Williams it was perfection.
The Academy Award fashion eye is usually on the favorite for the award in the lead actress category. I am assuming Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady is a shoe in ( and deservingly so), but I want Michelle Williams to win - for no other reason than I think she is fantastic, and goddamn ballsy to play Ms. Marilyn Monroe. Rooney Mara is an up and comer whom I find quite dull. It is always the same glum look and pasted on black as night hairdo. Boring and predictable (here is hoping I am wrong).
Whatever designer dress is on whichever actress I know I am going to have a blast - whether I am glamorously fresh drinking a champagne cocktail or stained and tired holding a lukewarm cup of coffee. Whatever I am wearing I will be making judgmental and sometimes mean thoughts on whether the actresses (and their gowns) should be out drinking champagne or just sitting at home with some coffee of their own.
