tortuga
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Post by tortuga on Aug 28, 2014 21:36:20 GMT -4
<joins chonies on the overthinking couch>. Maybe she's self sabotaging? Like deep down she can't accept how successful she is at a young age so is subconsciously making horrid fashion choices? The <clomp clomp> "walking like she's never worn heels in her entire life and decided the Emmys when wearing a full length gown that no one could see her feet in anyway was the perfect time to learn" of two years ago makes me think it's deliberate somehow.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2014 22:01:58 GMT -4
I don't know WHAT the statement is, but I definitely think her intention is to say SOMEthing. Just tell us, Lena! Use your words!
I am shocked that some people like her hair. I think it might be literally the most unfortunate hairdo I've ever seen.
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Post by kostgard on Aug 28, 2014 22:34:17 GMT -4
She's an odd case because she seems to frequently get it half-right. Or at least you can see the kernel of a good outfit in what she wears. Personally, I loved the fabric and colors for this dress, but the final overall look was so meh. Same with her most recent pink Emmys look - I thought the bottom had the potential to look awesome, but the top and the hair just didn't work. I think some of the reactions she gets can be a little OTT sometimes, but I can understand some of the frustration. This is actually a good illustration but what I mean about her problem with fit. That dress is pretty, but the fit is all wrong. If she had just had it tailored to fit her shape, it would be a good look for her. It's just weird because her clothes are so consistently ill-fitting that it does feel intentional, and as I previously mentioned, if it is intentional, I don't get what she's trying to say with it. I like Lena overall. Girls isn't my cup of tea, but I get and appreciate what she's trying to say with the show. I think she's smart and talented and I love that she embraces the fact that she doesn't look like the typical Hollywood starlet. So I just don't get why she does what she does with her wardrobe.
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dragonflie
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Post by dragonflie on Aug 28, 2014 22:42:53 GMT -4
Hmmm… maybe she is so self conscious about her weight that she sees tailoring as a trigger or something. Maybe a designer sends her something in her size- she tries it on and even though the fit is all off she thinks: "Screw this, I'm not going to have it altered because they don't make dresses for my shape!!" Maybe that's her "statement"??
Lena dear- all the girls have their clothes tailored for the red carpet- even the skinny ones.
Ultimately whatever she is trying to say is lost on me because she doesn't just come out and say it. Like Mulva said- use your words Lena!! (not your poorly fitted clothes- please, I beg of you).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2014 23:11:07 GMT -4
She doesn't seem the least bit self-conscious about her weight to me (which is great). As for her clothes, I mean, she doesn't have the greatest taste IMO, but she honestly dresses like any NYC hipster. I have a friend who literally dresses just like her and has been for years. The other day she sent me a Snapchat where she was wearing old overalls with nothing underneath (WTF?). I will never understand hipster non-style style, but whatever. As an aside, my friend also used to work for creepy Dov Charney and was recruited by him while walking down the street because he LOVED her style. So, there you go.
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Post by Hamatron on Aug 29, 2014 1:24:25 GMT -4
Yeah. You know how when you look back at pics from the 70s there are a lot of ugly looks to laugh at? I know that's true of every era, but the 70s and early 80s were exceptionally bad. Well, I think we are in another one of those eras now.
Topic? I tend to think Lena just doesn't have much fashion sense and doesn't wear things fitted right, which is super common regardless of whether you're famous or not. Even folks with stylists end up in dresses and suits on the red carpet that are ill fitted or badly cut. For some reason when Lena does it, it sparks more debate that say, Christina Hendricks, Michelle Dockery, Emilia Clarke, or anyone from the cast of OITNB. For all of these people, this shortcoming is probably just a combo of not enough time, not having fashion be a career priority, general apathy, lacking fashion aptitude, and a million other boring reasons why people make poor clothing choices.
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tortuga
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Post by tortuga on Aug 29, 2014 11:01:00 GMT -4
I was re-looking at the emmy picture and I think if she had just reached up under the skirt and pulled the shirt down and de-blousooned it (and stood up straight and wiped the duh look off of her face), it would have made a huge improvement.
Then phase two would be: darker color (like the red the runway model wore), take off the cap sleeves and make it sleeveless and shorten the skirt a bit.
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Post by FotoStoreSheila on Aug 29, 2014 11:32:53 GMT -4
Yeah. You know how when you look back at pics from the 70s there are a lot of ugly looks to laugh at? I know that's true of every era, but the 70s and early 80s were exceptionally bad. Well, I think we are in another one of those eras now. Diane Keaton's 1977 Oscar outfit is worse than anything Lena has ever worn on a red carpet. Perhaps I have a stronger reaction to Lena's bad fashion choices because it seems like she goes to a lot of trouble to look terrible, kind of like Kim Kardashian. It's not just that Lena's dress isn't properly tailored. Her hair is a disaster. And not because she didn't comb it. It probably took hours to dye it platinum and cut it into a mushroom. Or the garish make up. She went to the trouble of finding horrible eye shadow to match her turquoise 2013 Emmys dress.
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wilbert
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Post by wilbert on Aug 29, 2014 17:35:31 GMT -4
I know! This is what kills me. There are pix of her at Tomandlorenzo and I just ... Is she trolling, is she not? Is she smart enough to even think to toll? For me it's like. Lenasception. Fashion within fashion within fashion, layered with irony and feminist and gender studies. My brain can't comprehend it!
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Post by thneed on Sept 1, 2014 2:08:28 GMT -4
She doesn't seem the least bit self-conscious about her weight to me (which is great). As for her clothes, I mean, she doesn't have the greatest taste IMO, but she honestly dresses like any NYC hipster. I think a useful comparison would be Mindy Kaling, since they both are the creators/stars of autobiographical-style (and overtly, stereotypically, girly - not that that's bad) sitcoms. They both have a similar body type, which probably hews pretty closely to the average American woman. But their approach to dressing (and how they present an image of being OK with how they look) is so different. Mindy does what people on this thread are saying Lena should do - she dresses in tasteful, flattering, appropriate clothes that never get much criticism or praise (beyond the "that's so flattering for her" type). And if you watch The Mindy Project, the show makes jokes out of how obese Mindy's character is, detailing constantly what's wrong with her body, she's constantly eating and has terrible habits, how she's way less pretty than every other woman. Lena's public image (who knows how either of them really think) is the opposite. As is Hannah Horvath. She's not going to try to make herself pretty, or likeable, or appropriate, or a good example. She's going to make a big presentation of everything that could be conceived as a flaw, physically or personality-wise. As far as her awards show outfits go, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
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