BAFTA 2014

Ok so the BAFTAs came and the red carpet fashion was dizzying. Is this black tie or casual? Because it was a mix of both. Kalerks!

Anyways for best dressed. Eeekkkk! I can't help but gush about my best dressed... IT'S ANGELINA JOLIE IN A SAINT LAURENT SUIT. Yes! A suit! I mean, I should be giving this to Amy Adams for her sexy and vampy Victoria Beckham gown but Angie killed it with her style and attitude. I love you gurl! Bow down bitches!

He's wearing Valentino, she's wearing Saint Laurent. This two just makes me wanna scream! I want a red carpet moment like that! PAK!

 Lily Allen in Vivienne Westwood - I love the color combo. The effort was much appreciated! :D

 Uma Thurman in Atelier Versace - You know simplicity is beauty? This is where that applies. PERFECT! Loves it!

 Oprah Winfrey in Stella McCartney- Love the gown. I'm not crazy about the hair styling. I think big hair would look good but I don't know the situation here.

 Ruth Wilson in Antonio Berardi - Uhmmm.... The fit is off. This type of trousers are for skinny women.

 Naomie Harris in Gucci - Ay may governement luncheon? CHOZ! Very madame! I'm on the fence with this one.

 Olga Kurylenko in Burberry - I quite like it. I wished her hair was pushed back. It looks sexier. Hahaha.

 Josephine de la Baume in Marios Schwab - The who? Anyways, wish the sleeves were cut an inch short. It just bugs me.

 Lea Seydoux in Miu Miu - Now the Miuciia Prada x Lea Seydoux red carpet moments are amazing! Consistent. Well Lea was there for "Blue is the Warmest Color." hahaha. But I love this dress. The Prada quirk is always there. Love you gurl!

 Dame Helen Mirren in Jacques Azagury- She never fails to impress me. You go gurl!

 Gillian Anderson in vintage Balmain- Aw! Vintage Balmain! Seeing Balmain now, aren't you shocked? Well it was Christophe Decarnin who was responsible for the radical change mostly because it was his style. Anyways, I am loving this. Even if it's not vintage, I would still love it.

 Laura Carmichael in Erdem - Not loving this look for the event. Love the shoes though.

 Amy Adams in Victoria Beckham - She just gets it. I love this dress so much! And I love Victoria Beckham for this! I love her even more!!!

Lupita Nyong'o in Dior Couture - I love Lupita because she loves color. I love the simplicity of this look. Quite monotonous from her other red carpet looks but she is continuing to dazzle us. Keep it up gurl! Can't wait for your Oscars look.

 Cate Blanchett in Alexander McQueen - SUPER UNDERWHELMING. Why can't McQueen make a better gown. She does not deserve this.

 Prince William - INFIDELITY! CHOZ! That was the head of the BAFTAs. Wish Kate Middleton was there. He presented an award to Helen Mirren.

 Bradley Cooper in Alexander McQueen- Just have to post him! He's sooooo dreamy!

 Maggie Gyllenhaal in Lanvin- Maggie's a red carpet risk taker and while I applaud her, I wish the sleeves were different. That's my only complaint. Yes! That's it.

 Eddie Redmayne and Haley eklavu both in Gucci - I don't know the name of his girlfriend and I don't intend to find out. Eddie is one of my dream husbands so back off bitch! LOL! Anyways, she looks like a pilgrim or something like that. And I will forever love Eddie through all haircuts.

Imogen Poots in Givenchy - Now this was presented in the Spring 2014 runway in gold and it looks horrible. This is much better. Kim wore this in black and I still can't get that horrible image off my mind. But I will forever love Givenchy for makin Kim "custom made" looks and making her look horrible. They must hate Kim so much that they don't care the brand is associated with her just so she can look horrible. HAHAHAHA!

Photos from: vogue.com, eonline.com,theguardian.com, empireonline.com

Saint Laurent Bags

Now, believe it or not, while critics haven't been too keen on Hedi Slimane's collection from Saint Laurent, IT DOESN'T MATTER. According to reports, his collection for Saint Laurent has been flying off the shelves. Yes, they're a hit on retail customers. And I guess that's all that matters, right?

Well, everything has now the Slimane DNA including the handbag. Looking at the new font, we're going to Celine direction. Right?

To be honest, I would buy the bags. Haha! I specifically liked the Du Jour bag (A Birkin ripoff), Classic Duffle, and Betty Bag. Even the old Saint Laurent bags (which still has the "Y") has been added with the new logo. I will still buy the Cabas bag. Hahaha.

With his ready to wear being a hit, I'm sure the handbags will be a hit too. I love it! :)

WHO DID IT BETTER?

So this is some kind of a segment I'll do which I don't know, I just wanna. Well, it's "Who did it better?" It's two similar outfits by different designers and just comment who did it better. :)

For the inaugural one, we have Rihanna in this red Alaia number at the Grammys 2013 vs Angelina Jolie in Saint Laurent black gown during Brad Pitt's World War Z premiere. Both look similar as they have the see through in the midriff part. Haha. Push!

Rihanna in Azzedine Alaia Grammys 2013

 Angelina Jolie in Saint Laurent World War Z premiere

This is hard because I like both gowns. If Rihanna's gown had something to hide that nipple, I would've love this more. So, I'm going with the Saint Laurent one. :)

Saint Laurent Paris Fall 2013

Alright, of all the Fall 2013 fashion shows, this got the most polarized reactions. Just look at the photos at style.com and you'll see why.

Let's look at my favorite critique of the clothes, from Hedi Slimane's favorite gal, Cathy Horyn. LOL.

" One of the first things the new designer, Hedi Slimane, did was to remove “Yves” from the label, thereby severing a symbolic connection to the founder, and everything he stood for, like good taste and feminine power.

Many people said the clothes looked like stuff sold at Topshop or a thrift store, while others defended Mr. Slimane’s approach and identified pieces, like a pink fur chubby, that relate back to Yves’s designs of the late ’60s and early ’70s, when he got ideas — say, for a pea coat — from the street. It’s doubtful that customers will make that connection, but such comments serve to validate what Mr. Slimane has done.

And the controversy is good for Saint Laurent. But mainly it was clear to me how strong the name is. In terms of design, the clothes held considerably less value than a box of Saint Laurent labels. Without the label attached to them, Mr. Slimane’s grunge dresses wouldn’t attract interest — because they’re not special. But a box of labels is worth a million.

Hermès stands in sharp contrast to the Saint Laurent show and its lazy values."

Ouch! That hurt!

 Meanwhile, let's look at a blogger, Man Repeller's Leandra Medine's review of the Saint Laurent show.

 "Twitter reactions (based on the Saint Laurent hash tag and not on the caliber of person posting) to Hedi Slimane’s second women’s ready-to-wear collection for Saint Laurent included the following:
“What the hell is Hedi Slimane thinking?”
“Oh my dear Lord. Is this Saint Laurent, or an average girls high street wardrobe? I want to cry.”
“What the hell happened to YSL? I’ve seen people on skid row dressed better.”
“We did not need a Rachel Zoe x Marc Jacobs grunge resort collection.”
“Saint Laurent show, a huge joke on the fashion industry?”
“Women’s Wear Daily reports that Saint Laurent is relocating their Paris studios. Hopefully they don’t tell Hedi where they’re going.”
I feel badly for Slimane. He’s had his ass handed to him by effectively everyone–even his fans. For all the editorial reviews that have tried to gather whatever beauty and raison d’etre is evident in his collection, camps of protestors have shown up in virtual armies at the comment feeds to refute the findings. Any comment of praise has been met with a biting, “but,” and no matter how literate, intellectual, articulate and authentic the positive reviews could have been, it just doesn’t seem to matter.
It’s true that Slimane may be taking a liberal breadth of creative license in his work for Saint Laurent, but if the re-branding and subsequent dropping of the household ‘Yves’ in Saint Laurent last season was an indication of anything, it was that Slimane’s vision would likely differ phenomenally from that of the late Yves’. So, yes, Slimane is certainly not to Saint Laurent what Raf Simons has proven to Christian Dior. But his creative departure from what’s expected at YSL can just as easily be viewed as a continuation of great House tradition.
In Alicia Drake’s book, The Beautiful Fall, a wonderful portrayal mirroring the careers of Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent in 1970s, Saint Laurent is credited as having popularized ready-to-wear in 1966 as a means to “democratize fashion.” Lest we forget, Yves Saint Laurent invented Le Smoking–a novel nod to androgynous dressing that maintained the antiquated spirit of feminine elegance.
Isn’t this precisely what Slimane is trying to do? Appeal to a different, perhaps larger, audience? The democratization of fashion at YSL in 1966 is not so different from the shift we’re seeing at Saint Laurent now. The underlying problem here, I believe, is that it seems like we’re way past the point of democratization. (Especially, when referring to a fashion house with such an extensive aura of highbrow radiating around it).
The concept of ready-to-wear has migrated far away from the original meaning of fashion-friendly “ready-to-wear,” and if the future of ready-to-wear remains — for lack of a better term — ready to wear, should it be ready to wear now?
One of the most beautiful things in fashion is that element of personal exploration. What is more refreshing than hating a collection at first runway glance (case in point: Hedi Slimane for Saint Laurent, season one) and finding yourself having grown to love it over the interim before the clothes hit sales floors? That’s an astute testament to evolving personal style, personal point of view, personal perception. Ultimately, Slimane’s spring suiting, suede and those ineffable leather jackets are the clearest indication that you can’t fake good fabric and that you can’t fake authentic artistry.
And you know what? In spite of my having loved the Fall collection (which, I did, and would effectively besiege the previous paragraph’s sentiment), I wholly applaud the aspect of realism and Slimane’s apparent hunger to modernize the brand.
Here’s the thing of it, though, I’m not Saint Laurent’s chic, overwhelmingly wealthy, French customer; I’m a groupie on the sidelines. So, what do I make of that? Does that chic, French customer even actually exist anymore? Have people expressed violent disinterest in the collection because it doesn’t appear to cater to that customer? Are we afraid that this disheveled girl is the new prototypical woman? And is that a sad, difficult conclusion to draw? Yes, maybe we’re in denial.
Clearly, I’m confused. Please, impart your wisdom."

I have to say I'm with Cathy Horyn on this one. Yes, Leandra, people are not Saint Laurent chic, but shouldn't it be that if you're paying $3,000 for something it should be worth the money? You should sell a fantasy now. It's the fact that the high street is selling clothes that are even almost similar to high fashion that high fashion should now sell a dream. Alright, let's go to the grunge theme. How come Dries van Noten (Spring 2013) and Givenchy made almost very punk rock clothes look so divine and chic?  I'm sure Hedi can do this too.

I don't know, what's your opinion guys? :)