Convinced that my 30s were intended for the 1940s instead of during this age of loud fashion and improper etiquette, I did what any Realist would do. I ignored the 2013 Oscars, rather viewing Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca,” winner of “Best Picture” at the 13th Academy Awards.
The following scene and quotation from “Rebecca” never fail to transport my brain to another place. “And another thing, please promise me never to wear black satin or pearls, or to be thirty-six years old.” Oh! It gets me every single time!
Although nominated for her perfect performance, my gorgeous, teeny, tiny sprite Joan Fontaine did not win Best Actress until the following year, 1942, for her performance in “Suspicion” which is also a favourite of mine.
Pictured: Best Actor Gary Cooper (“Sergeant York”), Best Actress Joan Fontaine (“Suspicion”), Best Supporting Actress Mary Astor (“The Great Lie”) and Best Supporting Actor Donald Crisp (“How Green Was My Valley”).
And now, back to Reality. Time to assess the bodies of the 85th Oscars. If this isn’t inspiration for a gorgeous week of yoga and spinning, then I don’t know what else can be so!
Jessica Chastain in Giorgio Armani. It is my assessment that she is a naturally thin beauty. She performs a bit of cardio, creating thin arms and a flat stomach. But her hips and thighs could use the resistance training of yoga, as they are quite round.
Amy Adams, the look of perfection in Oscar De La Renta. Body, dress, hair, jewels, the works!
The perfect body and my unofficial thinspiration for the week. Zoe Saldana in Alexis Mabille Couture.
Can’t deny a thin girl of her title, even when her fashion sense is too 1960s and plain jane for my own. Anne Hathaway in Prada.
Amanda Seyfried’s perfect body in a not-so-perfect, very loud Alexander McQueen.
Clearly slacking on yoga training despite maintaing gorgeous thinness, it looks as though Jennifer Anniston has just rolled out of bed in her Valentino.
I give Adele major props.
Reese Witherspoon is a gorgeous mermaid in Louis Vuitton. Any high quality merman would have this fit, firm beauty, no doubt! Especially that man in sunglasses to the far right!
Salma Hayek in an Alexander McQueen. Three hours at the gym. Daily. Twenty years. Obviously. Hard work shows.
Jennifer Hudson, you have done the work, you have earned a lovely body, so why have you botched it up by revealing your leg chub like would a hooker? On this evening, you put your body and Roberto Cavalli to shame.
Kelly Osbourne in Tony Ward Couture needed just a few more chaturangas before striking a pose.
And my favourite look of the night and ultimate thinspiration for the week! Naomi Watts in Giorgio Armani. A classic Joan Fontaine.
In what decade do you wish to have been 30?
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I’ve loved the movie Rebecca since doing a comparative study between Rebecca and Jane Eyre last year, can’t beat a black and white film!
I can’t help but spend every waking hour lusting after the bodies of celebrities. Sigh.
OMG. Jane Eyre starring Joan and Orson Welles?! I’m not a HUGE Orson film fan, but I desperately WANT his Mr. Rochester character to take me for a sexual object each and every single time that I view that amazing 1943 film. :)
Yes! I belong to YOUR era, darling! And I applaud some your Oscars favorites.
However my best dressed goes to Alicia Vikander in Elie Saab!
Oh yes. I love her. And I just now spotted her look after you’ve mentioned it! She is my second favourite. Absolutely stunning!
Yay, for fashionable you!
You’ve got a taste for style, darling! ;)
That is a compliment, coming from you, SushiVogueGirl! Merci beaucoup!
Bahaha! It’s been so long anyone called me that! I just stopped making sushi :( and even ordering it! And now I crave it badly! Well, maybe for tomorrow’s lunch, or dinner or both!
And thank you!
I know! I spotted that in one of your comments! I stopped, too, about a year ago. Too many carbs in the rice (and now I’m raw). So I do sashimi. Mwah!
Oh, I love to watch all these beautiful dresses AND beautiful people! I think Amanda Seyfried looks really good! I also love Adele- did you know she is a vegetarian because she loves animales? I always adore veg*n celebrities :)
I had NO idea of her vegetarian state! Oh how I love that. Animals (non human) are everything. xo
Anne Hathaway is my new celebrity crush. She is adorable and I LOVE her tiny bod. I actually thought Reese looked preggo and a bit “thick.” Perhaps that’s just my perception. Naomi’s dress was gorgeous. I haven’t watched the Oscars (or any award show) since I was a wee won, but decided to watch it last night. Quite entertaining, but slow at times.
Omg! You have the Anne Hathaway body, and I can see you in that Prada!!!
I have always loved Anne Hathaway so I’m going to be completely biased. But if an actress can make me actually like a chick-flick (Devil Wears Prada) then she must be a talented person – I’d usually rather poke my eyes out with forks than watch any films of that type. She was gorgeous in that and since she’s lost weight I just admire her even more – the pixie haircut, the understated style…she’s a winner for me.
Personally I find Naomi Watts’ dress a little too…sci-fi? It just doesn’t grab me at all, but her body is amazing. I didn’t even recognise Jennifer Hudson! Sadly I am really not sure what the Hell she and Kelly Osbourne are wearing – some dressing in the dark going on there :/ Selma Hayek’s dress is a little odd as well – she’s tiny (and petite) but has quite a large chest, so anything that clings to her at that point and then hangs loosely is going to make her look far too shapeless.
It must be hard for Adele to know what to wear when she’s not your average skinny minnie in Hollywood but she wears exactly the same dress to every single awards ceremony – it’s always a variation on black/sparkles and it does nothing for her. I think she needs something cleaner and more simple, but that wouldn’t go with her big hair/beaucoup de make-up look I suppose. Not much of an Adele fan myself – not due to her size but I just find her music overplayed and overrated. But hey, what do I know? I don’t really listen to anything other than metal and cheesy dance music when I’m running :P
The Oscars is about the only time my inner ‘fashionista’ (hahaha) comes out.
xxx
Holy fuck.
I feel as though I’ve just read a Joan Rivers Red Carpet analysis of the stars!!!
Who the hell are you, and what have you done with Jessica?
I AM IN LOVE WITH YOUR ANALYSIS!!!
It has completely stunned me.
You are a fashion girl.
I love you! xoxoxo
Bonsoir Nicolette :)
OK I’ll start. Boring Anne Hathaway dress, makes me think of a dress Gwyneth Paltrow wore at the Oscars 10 years ago (and Gwyneth wore it better). Frankly I did not like Ms Hathaway’s perky breasts, or was it the princess seams that puckered, rather? Not sure. Anyway. I am sick of seeing the same shapes of dresses over and over. I have been following the Milan Fashion Week and there are a few dresses which would have been lovely worn by one of the actresses. I’d love to see an actress with a short ballgown revealing the legs. Prada and many others, Alberta Ferretti, Marni, Missoni, etc. do beautiful, edgy, gowns, but actresses are so afraid of making a faux-pas that they’re going for the expected. So here is my fav dress, and I now have a crush on Samantha Barks from Les Miserables: http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2013/02/the-sexiest-woman-at-the-oscars-samantha-barks.html
Bisous!
Francoise
OMG. Samantha Barks is gorgeous. Girl crush is hereby dittoed.
And Ms. Hathaway is a thin pretty young thing. She SHOULD be daring and willing to push the boundaries. She totally has the bod for it. Kelly Osbourne does NOT. Yet Kelly pushes the boundaries, but she also pushes the seams of her dress with chub-a-roni.
Happy medium? Ha. Not for me.
xo
Forgot to include this link to photos of the dresses worn to the Oscar After Parties. I find them more interesting than the Oscar dresses. The actresses took more risks. For example, Diane Kruger, Kate Bosworth, Nathalie Portman, and several others. Have a look!
:)
xoxoxoxoxo
Francoise
Forgot the link http://fashionista.com/2013/02/see-what-everyone-wore-to-the-oscars-after-parties/ :)
Hilary Swank in Valentino – fucking terrible!!!
Liberty Ross – GORGEOUS bod. She is clearly a yoga girl.
Ginnifer Goodwin – Terrible dress aside, she’ll always be a chubby polygamist to me.
Britney Spears – I think she and I have a very similar eating / exercise schedule. And we have since 1999. I’ve observed the same body changes during the past 1.5 decades.
Jane Fonda – fucking fabulous. The party and the after party. Totally not my style. Totally cheesy. But that skinny woman has worked hard for her bod, and she should command the respect of each and every single one of us exercise addicts. LOVE Jane Fonda. And fuck anyone who brings up Vietnam (especially you, Sir Henry!). So annoying. ;)
But at the end of the day, the only after party look which I covet for my own is Naomi Watt’s.
Seems like she is my newest girl crush. :) xo
I love the 40s and the 50s! Zoa Saldana looks fabulous by the way! And I was also disappointed at Amanda Seyfried’s dress when I first saw it too :( Personally, if I could choose a dress to wear myself, I would pick Emma Stone’s crimson Giambattista Valli!
OMG. You would look a-freaking-dorable in the Giambattista Valli!
I missed the Oscars, but I am catching it on Hulu right now. As I have previously stated, Zoe S. is my girl-crush, as she always presents my preferred body aesthetic. She did not disappoint! Love Anne Hathaway…but I just think that is because I am pleased she is a fellow pixie and is maintaining her svelte figure, post- Les Mis…I am not loving the outfit, but she is thin!
I am sorry, but I do not support Adele. I just …cannot. She has so much wasted potential, it makes me crazy… I think it is very generous of you to give her props, though. Also, Jennifer Hudson cannot ever lose enough weight for me to like her. She is just plain gross.
I am in a rather bitchy mood today, eh? ;-)
OMG we would have so much fun @ cocktails with each other!!!
PS: Didn’t you totally love her in Center Stage? I did!!
Indeed, I think we would get into quite a lot of trouble together!
A cross between Sex & the City, 90210, and Mean Girls:)
“In what decade do you wish to have been 30?”
The mid 1960s (you can probably guess that based on my girl crushes and my 60s Inspiration Pinterest board!).
I didn’t watch the Oscars. I haven’t watched in years actually, mainly because they run so long and I get bored easily, but looking at the red carpet pics the next day is worth it!
I agree with most of your assessments. Jennifer Aniston, I love her for her “naturalness” but it is the Oscars, so she could glam it up just once. I have to disagree with the assessment of Jennifer Hudson. I’m happy she’s worked hard and maintained, at least in this picture she looks good. Adele, her music isn’t my thing (although I did enjoy her theme to the latest James Bond flick), so I don’t pay much attention to her. I think she looks ‘dowdy’ and that dress would look dowdy no matter what her weight. She could have gone with something more, I don’t know, daring : )
I would sport Kelly Osbourne’s hair color (love the lavender) if my V.P. wouldn’t shake his head at me every day in the office ; )
Naomi Watts: Always beautiful! : )
See!!!!!!!!! This is precisely why we are sisters! I would also do the purple hair! And pink! I am so punk. That is why L.A.M.B. totally suits me. Classy and punk. I don’t know if I feel bad for Adele or what. But I do know that she must be struggling every single day of her life, being in front of people as such a fat cow. But then again, she has so much mula that she could get the fat cut off tomorrow without blinking an eye. So perhaps she doesn’t really give a fuck. I would. :)
shouldn’t it be “this is precisely OF why we are sisters?”
Sure;)