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Post by FotoStoreSheila on Feb 16, 2011 12:56:50 GMT -4
I saw part of a documentary on Sundance Channel called The Red Carpet Issue. It examines how the red carpet talk has exploded and effected the fashion industry, including interviews with stylists and fashion house people. It was really interesting. They're replaying it tonight and early next week. I watched this last night and I really enjoyed it, so thanks for the heads-up. Interesting that crazy Sharon Stone is basically supplementing her income by having "relationships" with all the major fashion houses and luxury jewelry brands in Europe. It's very lucrative. They touched on Uma Thurman's Prada moment in 1995. And how Marchesa is basically a house built primarily on outfitting celebrities for the red carpet, not showcasing a traditional runway collection like most designers. The competition to get jewelry on celebrities is fierce. I had no idea stars are paid thousands of dollars to showcase earrings, necklaces and bracelets on the red carpet. |
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Post by satellite on Feb 16, 2011 13:48:37 GMT -4
I'll have to find that documentary, it sounds interesting.
I've noticed in the past year or so that some of the more conservative second tier? (not sure of the proper term) brands have started using celebrity models. Ann Taylor had Naomi Watts last fall and now has Katie Holmes, Julianne Moore just started doing Talbots ads after representing Bulgari, etc.
Speaking of which, has there been a celebrity Guess model since Paris Hilton? It seems like they've had a run of thin (for Guess), beautiful, but highly interchangeable models ever since Paris. I remember in the 90's they had Drew Barrymore, Anna Nicole Smith, etc. I'm surprised they haven't hired some hot young star lately, like a Megan Fox.
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Post by chiqui on Feb 16, 2011 14:29:47 GMT -4
I still remember that dress. It was gorgeous and at the time very different from what everyone else was wearing.
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Post by Augustus on Feb 16, 2011 18:10:34 GMT -4
The competition to get jewelry on celebrities is fierce. I had no idea stars are paid thousands of dollars to showcase earrings, necklaces and bracelets on the red carpet. Isn't it when the women wear their hair up, so they can showcase the jewelry to their finest, it usually means they've been 'sponsored' to wear them? I think I remember some insider saying that's the way to spot them. |
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Post by Ripley on Feb 16, 2011 21:41:47 GMT -4
The competition to get jewelry on celebrities is fierce. I had no idea stars are paid thousands of dollars to showcase earrings, necklaces and bracelets on the red carpet. Isn't it when the women wear their hair up, so they can showcase the jewelry to their finest, it usually means they've been 'sponsored' to wear them? I think I remember some insider saying that's the way to spot them. Yes, that's one of the things they pointed out in the documentary. |
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Post by Carolinian on Mar 1, 2011 13:43:46 GMT -4
My crush has died. For years John Galliano has been my favorite designer. He creates beautiful (and beautifully made), inventive clothes that are a clever play on historical fashion. It is a pity that he's such a racist troll. |
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Post by magazinewhore on Mar 1, 2011 15:18:39 GMT -4
I think they are trying to cultivate a more prestigeous brand image and get rid of the slightly boring-working-women image they had.
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Post by divasahm on Mar 1, 2011 16:09:43 GMT -4
I think they are trying to cultivate a more prestigeous brand image and get rid of the slightly boring-working-women image they had. Sure hope going for the zombie-Clam-bride demographic works out for them. |
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Post by satellite on Mar 1, 2011 16:38:16 GMT -4
I think they are trying to cultivate a more prestigeous brand image and get rid of the slightly boring-working-women image they had. Sure hope going for the zombie-Clam-bride demographic works out for them. Hee! I was kind of wondering though if it was considered a step down for the actresses at all? I mean money is money, but I always figured there was a sort of cache to representing the major designer brands. Like Madonna has Dolce & Gabbana, while Scarlett does their makeup ads. I remember Versace had different celebrity models every season for awhile (Halle Berry met Gabriel at a Versace shoot), as did Louis Vuitton (smartly dropping Lindsay when she became problematic). But yeah, I guess it does make sense for the working woman stores to add glamour to their product (especially in the current economy), rather than the big designers spending money on celebrities. I don't know that a celeb endorsement is enough to prompt that sort of pre-recession aspirational spending. |
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Post by Atreides on Mar 1, 2011 17:07:08 GMT -4
I think the actress' cachet is based on the actress herself. The Nicole Kidmans and Cate Blanchetts of the movie world can choose to align themselves with the top-tier fashion houses while the Julianne Moores have to settle with Talbots. Julianne has never been considered a fashion icon (a good number of her red carpet outfits have been atrocious) and her star has dimmed somewhat since her peak in the early 2000s so Talbots was probably the best she could get.
I'm interested in seeing how the fashion world will deal with the Galliano mess. Fashion journalism is mind-bogglingly sycophantic (it makes Access Hollywood look like hard journalism in comparison) and pretty much everything seems to be tolerated (looking at you, Naomi Campbell).
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