DARE I SAY ANNA'S LOST HER TOUCH?

I’ve stopped buying Vogue. In fact, I haven’t even picked up an issue of Vogue in 6-8 months. It’s not just the boring editorials that look exactly the same every month (stick thin girls against blank backgrounds, jumping, jumping, jumping, making O-faces) – it’s the disappointing cover stories. First it was the utterly talentless Sienna Miller, then a boring and dated looking SJP (that dress looks exactly like what I wore to my freshman homecoming dance in high school), and now it’s Blake Lively. Blake Lively is not stylish. I have not once seen her in an outfit that completely covers either her bum or her boobs and/or isn't skin tight.

Yes, congratulations, you’re a blonde bombshell with a great rack and an incredible set of stems, but have some class, darling. Cover it up once in a while. Just because you have the money, connections, and venue to wear an off-the-runway Marchesa dress that exposes your hooha doesn’t mean you should. And it absolutely doesn’t mean you deserve to be on the cover of the most influential American fashion institution in history.

For God’s sake Anna, leave the starlets-of-the-moment alone and feature more worthwhile female figures. Michelle Obama was a nice touch. Even Gisele has more class and significantly better fashion cred than Ms. Parker/Broderick (Disclaimer: I’m a dedicated Sex and the City fan. But SJP doesn’t do her own styling – Pat Field does).

I fell in love with Vogue my junior year of college when it featured a fresh-faced breakout Jennifer Hudson, the truly talented and uniquely beautiful Angelina Jolie, or a candid and terribly stylish post-breakup Jennifer Aniston. Anna, you’re breaking my heart!

So in the process of entering the contest/giveaway of the Modcloth dress on What I Wore, I played on Polyvore which was addictively fun. The outfit is based on the polk-a-dot "Can't Stop Smiling" dress. This is the outfit I made:

Can't Stop Smiling Like a Lady

I picture a sunny spring day in San Francisco or Manhattan...the dress is kind of girly and since I tend to look less than legal, I went for mature looking everything else. Heels for the diehard fan (like me), but flats for walking around the city (don't forget the socks!) I'm picturing down and wavy old Hollywood hair.

So I went about this without concern for price, and wow do I have expensive taste! If I go for the heels option, it puts this outfit at $2,743. Yikes. Whaddaya think?

Wardrobe!

So, everything went great in New York for all the glitz and fun of being a finalist for Pantene's Reality Hair star.


And surprise! I get to keep the outfit I wore! So a special thanks to Susan Breindel and her assistant Tasha for giving me something I really liked! Here's some stills from the videos I have:)
 
The top is from club Monaco, the tight white skirt is BCBGMaxAzaria (squeal!). It's actually a little longer than it looks- they've got it hiked up.

And the shoooes! Comfortable, but a little slick. I can't wait to dance in them! They're from a great place called Zara, a store I didn't know about until I was in Santiago. Look for more pics on my facebook page, Pantene's fb and twitter pages, and God knows where else.

Bring Back the Class!

Okay, I know I’ve been doing a lot more ranting than raving lately, but I’ve held out too long, and I have to write this. 

I have an intense, passionate dislike of Lady Gaga, and I need to get it off my chest. Why, you ask? Well, you’d think that I would be crazy about her ‘avant garde’ fashion and her ‘leadership’ in the style world, and maybe even say she is a talented musician. Wrong, wrong, wrong. When I see Lady Gaga, I just see a group of fat white producers behind her who sat around a table strategizing the production of the next star, poring over some recipe for fame they found doing Google search algorithms and Lady Gaga is the result. She is a vacuous rip-off mishmash of everything that is supposed to project someone into superstardom. Look at her dead, emotionless stare. She's not a monster, she's a fame robot. She claims in an interview that she doesn't 'go out to the grocery store in flip-flops' and that it's not her look, but her life. Bull. She looks pretty average to me here. And I know Boiling Points isn't quite reality, but I'm pretty sure I see her in some flip flops with that awful coastie dress and greasy hair.

I do have to give credit that she/they were actually able to pull this off, but it really scares me how much people buy into this. Really? You guys are falling for an unoriginal envelope-pushing fake blonde who throws any hint of talent out the window to pump out repetitive brainless pop songs? On top of that, I’m a little horrified by the message she’s brainwashing little girls with. I know, people said it about Madonna, or when Christina Aguilera went ‘bad’, but this just feels so much different to me. Madonna was racy and pushed the envelop, but she had a very clear identity and personality, and I think overall she was classy about it. Look at Vogue.

I know that in every industry there tends to be some overlap, but this is just sad. Let’s give credit where credit is due. The women who came before her and inspired her style did it in such a classier and feminine way. Lady Gaga just looks like a drag version of all of these.

Let’s look at Exhibit A: Kylie Minogue. Let’s look at her Wow video. 

White-blond square cut wig? Check. Space-age costumes? Check. How about her In My Arms video. Look at her sunglasses, the checkered hood, the dress with mirrored squares…

There’s also Roisin Murphy, Christina Aguilera, and Brittney Spears. This video shows the comparison better than I can.

Yeah, yeah, imitation is the highest form of flattery. Ok cool. I like cover songs and I like inspired fashion, but at least keep it classy, and give credit. What Lady Gaga is doing is not fashion and not stylish; she is a hot mess and she is trashy.

CG, let's hear your rebuttal ;)