Oscar Fashion: Angelina Jolie Wins
The Oscar for best-dressed at the Oscars, however, goes to Angelina Jolie, in a daring, strapless Versace gown of black velvet, with a bustle and an asymmetrical bodice that resembled tulip-petals, slit to show off her legs to die for. That is more like it: something to die for! She resembled Sargent’s Madame X.
And in the to-die-for department, special mention goes to Rooney Mara, who lost to Meryl Streep, but showed the competition what Oscar fashion should be. Her white slip of a dress, by Givenchy, evoked vintage Chanel (Chanel-Chanel, not Lagerfeld-Chanel, one of the bias cut slips of the nineteen-thirties). Mara seems to understand that style requires exaggeration, and everything about her is exaggerated: her emaciated figure; her shellacked hair; its inky artificial blackness, the punkish bangs; the thick brows over the alarming blue eyes; and the aching fragility—all of it a contrast to her freshness.
- Judith Thurman on the best-dressed and last night’s trends (red hair and sequins): http://nyr.kr/y8Tf5a
This makes me extremely uncomfortable. First of all that Angelina Jolie would be considered best dressed for showing her leg? But also because despite the fact that all of Hollywood is dangerously and disgustingly thin, respectable media (like the New Yorker) fail to discuss or even address it. (cc: Cheat Sheet, Washington Post style, and all the others et al)
This despite the fact that when Angelina Jolie was on stage last night everyone could tell her body is so lacking for nourishment that her arms look like twigs with knotted lumps at the joints and her face looks only a few years away from Angelica Huston’s character in Witches.
I mean, just LOOK at her right arm in the above picture. If you remove that arm from the movie star, it looks like it belongs to a heroin addict or, per Tumblr’s new self-harm guidelines, LIKE SOMEONE WHO IS STARVING THEMSELVES. So yes, if it’s ok, can we please remove all of the tumblrs posting pictures of Angelina Jolie and how gorgeous she looked? Because that is self-harm and unhealthy and NO ONE STANDS LIKE THAT, ANGIE! STOP STANDING LIKE THAT WHERE IS YOUR SOULLLLLL?
