Red Carpet Round Up: The 87th Annual Academy Awards

I am 100% a diamonds girl so you know that if my Best Dressed from the Oscars is an actress wearing a gown entirely made of pearls, it MUST be good! Presenter Lupita Nyong'o stole the show once again this year when she arrived last night in this custom Calvin Klein Collection column. Her look was head to toe perfection! The dress was made of 6000 pearls and every single one was in the exact right place. A huge round of applause to Francisco Costa and his CK team! 

Unfortunately, there were very few other Red Carpet moments as striking as hers. I didn't feel that any other looks really knocked it out of the park although there were certainly some fabulous frocks on display. Kerry Washington, Jennifer Aniston and Julianne Moore got the beaded nude hues memo although each of their interpretations were very different. Washington brought a dose of the unexpected with a Miu Miu peplum paired with a straight, beaded skirt. Nominee Aniston got it right when it counted with her slit-up-to-there Versace number. The tailoring on her gown was perfection. And Moore, also a nominee, went all out glam in custom sequined Chanel. Had the second row of embellishments not played up the dress's drop waist, I would have chosen her for Best Dressed of the night. (I mean, hellooooo, it's Chanel!)

 

We also saw beading from the darker side of the spectrum. Naomi Watts rocked fashion's current cut-out trend with this Armani Prive  gunmetal gray and black beaded dress. Nominee Laura Dern very nearly achieved medieval goddess status in Alberta Ferretti. Her stylist should have simplified her look by removing the necklace and leaving the bag with her publicist though.

 

 And I PROMISE I looked for color on the Red Carpet!! Presenter Dakota Johnson looked lovely in this red Saint Laurent. The one silver beaded strap saved this dress from snoozeville...and I might have a soft spot for a ponytail during a formal event. 

Who were your favorites of the night? Now I'm going to go do 50 sit-ups and push-ups. These ladies obviously aren't hibernating beneath the frigidity of the East Coast's polar vortex!

all images via Instyle.com and WhoWhatWear.com

Red Carpet Roundup: The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

Last night's Red Carpet finally presented us with some achievable creativity and color to beat the band! If the Globes were all about metallic hues, then the SAG Awards flipped the script and brought a rainbow of pizzazz and even pattern.

"Game of Thrones" actress Natalie Dormer wins my Best Dressed of the night in her beautifully painted Naeem Khan gown. I'm such a sucker for a painterly print but everything about this dress was right on her. Those gorgeous purples, corals and pale pinks looked lovely with her complexion and hair. I couldn't tell if this gown was actually white or pale gray but regardless, her look was sweet and demure and a nice change in pace from gowns we've seen of late.

In a close second to Dormer's painted print comes "The Theory of Everything" star Felicity Jones in her sugary sweet pink Balenciaga. If you haven't seen her film yet, you will fall in love with her after you see her performance. She delivered in her role as Jane Hawking and she also delivered us some high fashion last night. Selecting Best Dressed was a tough decision because she is such perfection. Keeping with the sweet vibe were Reese Witherspoon in Giorgio Armani and Kiera Knightley in Erdem. Witherspoon's figure looked amazing in her asymmetrical white gown. I love that it had a bit of a cap sleeve. Knightly redeemed herself from the Chanel catastrophe at the Globes with this gorgeous tiered eyelet gown. Loved everything about her look last night! 

We also saw a lot of contrasting bodice gowns where the tops of the dresses had some sort of embellishment and fabric differentiation from the skirt. Sarah Hyland rocked the look in Vera Wang with gorgeous stones sewn in to the top of her daring plunged top. She always looks so fresh and like she is having so much fun. Natasha Lyonne did it with metallic embroidery and a heavy black skirt in this Proenza Schouler number. If she didn't have so much attitude, I might not like this dress as much...

 

Finally, we saw more pattern and even a respectable risk on the Red Carpet. I love Rashida Jones's Emanuel Ungaro dress with the contrasting blue piping. I actually feel like this dress is something people would throw on here to go to the beach. Maybe it was a little casual for a Red Carpet event but I still thought she looked fabulous in it. "Orange is the New Black" star and SAG Award winner Uzo Aduba looked AMAZING in her Angel Sanchez gown. The color and the fabric are so interesting. With her very simple hair and makeup, it was the perfect amount of complexity. Loved this risk!

Who were your favorites from last night? I can't wait to hear whose look you loved!

all images via Vogue.com

Red Carpet Round Up: The 72nd Golden Globe Awards

When an awards show is named for a precious metal, why would we expect anything besides metallic gowns to rule the Red Carpet?? Metals certainly made their statement last night at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards but there wasn't one metallic shade in particular that we saw on repeat. Gunmetal, silver, champagne and even bronze stole the show. Hollywood's sirens looked gorgeous, as always, but I have to give my best dressed of the night to Julianne Moore in her ombre Givenchy. STUNNING! What a major movie star moment. Dakota Johnson came dangerously close to stealing Moore's look but her Chanel gown traded the feathered skirt for a center slit. Crisis averted.

My two favorite redheads served us some serious style. Props to Emma Stone for taking a risk by wearing an unexpected jumpsuit with beaded bodice by Lanvin. The giant bow gave the edgy look a playful nod. Jessica Chastain was simply sexy in her bronze Versace dress. I would almost dare to say her dress looks comfortable if it weren't for the knotted plunge.

Speaking of the plunge, Jennifer Lopez and Sienna Miller showed off some major décolletage- one more than another- in their opulent frocks. Zuhair Murad designed J. Lo's dress, which reminds me a teeny bit of one of her other famous Red Carpet looks, while Sienna looked perfectly fresh in Miu Miu.

Emily Blunt and Quvenzhane Wallis brought a bit of brightness and freshness to the Red Carpet. Blunt accessorized her Michael Kors gown with resort worthy turquoise jewelry while Wallis looked sweet and age appropriate in Armani. 

There were many other gorgeous looks last night but I left off most of the gowns that I felt like we had seen before. ***cough cough Kate Hudson*** 

But more than that, I must say that I appreciated the serious cultural and political undertones to the evening. I won't hop on my high horse here but I want to just say one thing:

Kindness matters and the world is watching. Each of us will be held accountable for the way we treat others in life.

But that's an entirely different blog post...

Who was your best dressed at the Globes? Please leave me your comments!

all images via InStyle and US Magazine