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I was lucky enough to be the guest of my amazing dermatologist, NY’s supremely talented Dr. David Colbert, last night for the Manhattan premiere of Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island.” At the Ziegfeld Theater, we ran into designer L’Wren Scott, with boyfriend Mick Jagger – they’re in town for her small NYC show today (Thursday Feb 18) for just a small select group of editors and buyers. She was wearing one of her amazing fall 2009 coats. At the after party the NY restaurant Rouge Tomate, two floors on 60th St. between Madison and Fifth (the old Nicole Farhi store and space), we ran into pr woman Cari Ross and her client Michelle Williams, in a fabulous pale one shoulder Lanvin ruffle neck dress. She and Dr. Colbert were discussing an upcoming trip to Haiti they are going to take, and a benefit he’ll do in April in NY to raise money for Haitians – he’s been down there treating them twice now. (Naomi Watts will also be involved with it.) We ran into Emily Mortimer and Mira Sorvino, and while Mick and L’Wren didn’t seem to make it to the premiere (she was probably doing last minute details on her show), Leo DiCaptrio, Martin Scorsese (who directed “Shutter Island”) and Paramount’s Brad Grey were all there – as were Mark and Sunrise Ruffalo, who moved from L.A. a while back to the NY area. Sunrise bobbed her hair and looks completely Parisian now. In any case, it was so interesting to observe a NY movie premiere versus an LA one – the women were all chic, the men all in suits, and nobody talked about the box office!! – Merle Ginsberg

What a SAG fashion snafu! Hours before Penelope Cruz strolled down the sunny (yes!) red carpet at the SAG Awards at the Shrine on Saturday afternoon – in a black beaded cocktail length painted-on L’Wren Scott dress – Gucci sent out a press release saying Penelope would wear the first Gucci Premiere “couture” gown ever, designed for her by Gucci creative director Frida Giannini. Gucci had a huge hit with Olivia Wilde’s tight sequin Golden Globe dress, and it seemed they were on a roll. Penelope’s Gucci couture was meant to be pale pink – the hot color of the Globes. But when she walked the SAG carpet in her simple black L’Wren Scott, we were shocked – first, that Gucci sent out the release and big announcement of an entire collection hinging on this – but that Penelope wore a look so similar to her Golden Globe super tight black Armani Prive’ gown. Penelope has shown that she looks amazing in white or pale pink (at the Oscars, at the Venice Film Festival) – so it was surprising that she would eschew the Gucci and wear her usual black. Not that she didn’t look amazing – standing on stage at the SAGS with an overdressed Nicole Kidman and Kate Hudson, and an amazingly chic Marion Cottilard -she appeared the most comfortable in her own skin. We’d love to know the real story of what happened with the Gucci dress – but we may never know. And will Penelope wear the Gucci to some other event now – like the Oscars? Time will tell – but we doubt it.

Okay, we take back what we said about nobody wearing hip designers. Kyra Sedgwick is wearing a pink plum L’Wren Scott, very slender, with a low round neck that is lined in the same color ruffles, and there’s a sprig of rosettes on one shoulder. It’s simple, but the color and cut are so SO chic. The slit up the leg also adds a little sex to the girly color and ruffles. Very smart choice. Also, wearing her hair up in a messy chignon is very sexy with this dress. There’s a lot of hair up at the Emmy’s this year – what does that say about the economy? (Probably nothing, but we like to look for underlying meanings to these things!)

 

 

 

 

 

Designer L’Wren Scott was back in L.A. this week, where she lived for many years in an old Charles Bukowski house in the Hollywood Hills, to do both a fall 09 collection trunk show at Barneys – where she sold MANY pieces (what recession?), and to finesse Nicole Kidman’s Oscar gown, which was from her spring collection (she changed the decolletage and some other details for Nicole), and to go to Oscar parties with paramour Mick Jagger.

 

We caught up with her at Barneys, where the 6′2” beauty – taller in heels (her very first L’Wren Scott shoe collection debuts in the fall, and it is GOOD) – was wearing her own pale grey jeans cut like trousers, and an amazing jacquard pale grey and white corset tuxedo-cut vest over a white bow blouse – and was also wearing some of her own jewelry designs in diamonds that had the Barneys’ ladies drooling while trying on pieces from spring and fall.

 

“The spring pieces just came in last week, and a lot of it’s sold out already,” a Barneys employee told us. The women who showed up – Lindy G, wife of musician Kenny G, Jaclyn Smith (yes, the “Charlies Angels” one) shopping for looks for the next and last season of “Shear Genius,” Peggy Washburn, Susan Becker and others – didn’t know what to go for first: spring – in mostly pales – or next year’s fall, in blacks and deep forest greens. It was a toss up. A saleswoman was wearing a three quarter length sleeve tight white sheath from spring, over the knee, covered in a light black lace – for around $4500.00. That dress was nearly sold out.

 

Scott brought along a video of her tightly edited fall show from New York last week, and was pointing out looks to women. “That’s the new headmistress dress,” she explained of a tight dark knit dress with thread embroidery around the neck, with a tight silhouette that fits snug over the knees – her dresses are NOT short – but they ARE tight. “But they look good on all sizes of women,” she explained. “We make up to an Italian size 48 now. Women with fuller figures look great in these clothes – they look like WOMEN.” If you remember how hot Ellen Barkin looked in “Oceans 13,” she was wearing all L’Wren Scott dresses, made singularly for that film, in shades of pink and rose. She never looked better.

 

Scott is in her 4th season of designing, which grew out of styling such chic ladies as Nicole Kidman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ellen Barkin and Julianne Moore. “I enjoyed styling,” she says, “but that was executing someone else’s vision (she often worked with Herb Ritts and Karl Lagerfeld). “Now I get to execute my own vision. something I’ve always wanted to do.” Her showroom is in Paris, and she fluctuates between Paris, London and New York – not a bad life.

 

FASHION RULES: Do you miss L.A.?

 

L’WREN SCOTT: Absolutely. I have so many friends here. And I miss this weather. It’s freezing everywhere else in the world right now.

 

FASHION RULES: So Madonna is wearing one of your looks in the new March W – a black long sleeved dress with white collar and cuffs.

 

L’WREN SCOTT: Yes, that’s pretty exciting – it looks great on her.

 

FASHION RULES: So what was the overriding theme of the fall collection?

 

L’WREN SCOTT: I like to build my collections on colors and on staples, so when you buy pieces, you are really adding to your wardrobe, and you’re getting a new color palette. The clothes are timeless and modern at the same time. You can see that for fall, I’m working in dark greens and bright greens, along with black.

 

FASHION RULES: Even the coats in fall 09 look sexy! It’s hard to make coats sexy – or make suits sexy.

 

L’WREN SCOTT: Well, I think that’s why we’re selling so well. These clothes are all about the body – and they work in every city. They look good in L.A., N.Y., Paris or London.

 

FASHION RULES: Nicole Kidman’s Oscar gown was modelled on a dress you designed for spring, but you added couture details. Do you do a lot of couture?

 

L’WREN SCOTT: I do. I love to create a single dress with amazing embroidery or fabric – and they always seem to find a good  home! I do a lot of special orders for people. I find it fun.

 

FASHION RULES: It sounds like you travel all the time. How do you get all of this done? (the fall collection includes a dark green feathered bolero jacket that looks like it’s made of leaves, and some dark green jacquard prints that are amazing)

 

L’WREN SCOTT: I’m always working. I work wherever I am. I travel for fabric, I go to fabric fares – finding that leaf jacquard was not easy. Sourcing the great fabrics requires travel. I’m always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further. I work very hard on the colors, too. Like spring looks like a palette of pales  - but there are whites, shades of grey, ecru – they’re actually very different. Part of the fun for me is creating a new palette every season. It’s fun to see the ideas in your head spring to life. Because it all starts in your mind.

 

FASHION RULES: Your shows are very thematic, very precise, very – edited. Your look and point of view is so clear.

 

L’WREN SCOTT: That’s intentional, and that’s what shows should be about. But there are more looks in the showroom than what’s in the show. You have to tell a story in a short period of time in a very precise way. And the editing process is a big part of being a designer. When you own your own business, you understand the costs of things, and the process.

 

FASHION RULES: Are you still tight with the celebrities you styled for so long?

 

L’WREN SCOTT: Yes -  I keep in touch with all those girls.

 

(Someone exclaims about a beaded sheath on the mannequin on the second floor, that is part of spring.)

 

L’WREN SCOTT: I do love that dress. But it sold so well, I didn’t get one! I’m the last one to get my clothes!

 

(A woman tries on a gold lame tight sheath with blace lace encrusted into the fabric.)

 

L’WREN SCOTT: I had that fabric specially designed. Now, THAT dress I DID get – and it looks great when you move.

 

(The woman immediately buys it)

 

It’s a shame that designers like Rodarte and L’Wren Scott and Zac Posen wo’t get the press they deserve because the ladies who wore their gowns didn’t get to traverse the carpet. But we’re sure the Academy’s happy the presenters were kept secret – the ratings on ABC of the Oscars went up six percert, which does not bode well for us knowing presenters in the future. In any case, we thought we would fill you in what you missed:

• Nicole Kidman’s white strapless sparkly gown was by L’Wren Scott, the stylist turned designer
• Reese Witherspoon’s two tone black and blue gown was by Rodarte
• Natalie Portman’s pink strapless silk gown was by Rodarte
• Tina Fey’s skintight silver gown was by Zac Posen
• Beyonce’s fishtail black and gold gown was by House of Derreon
• Halle Berry’s black and gold strapless was by Marchesa
• Jennifer Aniston’s silver dress was Valentino Couture

 

Everybody’s weighing in on Oscar fashion – even those highly well-dressed women on “The View” (if you didn’t denote a note of sarcasm in print, we’re letting you know – that’s sarcastic!). Consensus has it that Marisa Tomei’s Versace couture had too much fabric and pleating (that’s what designer Randolph Duke said on KABC last night), that Miley Cyrus was dressed far too old, that Kate Winslet looked amazing in her YSL chicness, that Penelope Cruz (in vintage Balmain) and Sarah Jessica Parker (in Dior couture) stole the night – this is what Fashion Rules has to say, since we certainly have our own opinion:

 

MAJOR HITS  

• Penelope Cruz in her vintage Balmain – the Oscar winner switched it up from black to white, and while her miles of latte-like froth did look a little bridal – it was still a stunner, with her Audrey style hair.
• SJP in Dior Couture – miles and miles of seafoam tulle – if only she’d run down the streets of Manhattan in it now!
• Natalie Portman in Rodarte fuscia – a strapless close fitting body skimming princess gown. She took our breath away – and definitely had the best makeup of the night. Or maybe it’s just the best face.
• Kate Winslet in YSL two tone steel gray and black lace – a fabulous combo, a new style look for the red carpet, a great label, and a great fit. Lots of controversy about that molded hair – we loved it. It’s SO new.
• Taraji P. Henson in white strapless tiered Roberto Cavalli with a major Harry Winston diamond necklace – she looked classy AND like she was having fun – a rare combo. And it fit her beautifully.
• Freida Pinto in John Galliano one sleeved electric blue lace. It looked Indian and Parisian at the same time, and made her look more impossibly gorgeous than she is. And that’s hard.
• Angelina Jolie in Elie Saab Couture. The dress was all about her body – as well it should be. Those green honking Lorraine Schwartz earrings and ring were amazing on her – and a whole different way to go for Oscar jewels.
• Nicole Kidman in L’Wren Scott feathered white gown – fabulous. She wore her longtime stylist’s designer – very loyal, and it looked great. Why didn’t anyone care, though?

MINOR HITS  

• Amy Adams in red Carolina Herrera with a Fred Leighton collar necklace. Redheads in red, it’s an old topic. Essentially, it was a risk – and while the dress fit perfectly, we wish it was green – or blue – red on a red carpet just screams. The necklace was gorgeous, flattered her eyes – but stole the dress’s thunder, and didn’t really work with the color red.
• Viola Davis in an accordian pleat gold deco gown by Reem Acra – very pretty, very appropriate. Very flattering on her.
• Evan Rachel Wood in pale Elie Saab couture – very pretty, and less Goth than usual.
• Marisa Tomei in pale silver Versace major pleated gown with train – okay, so it was a whole LOTTA dress, and the train was high maintenance. It was quite a stunner and a major high fashion dress. Marisa has emerged this awards season as a real fashion risk taker. We applaud her, and loved it.
• Diane Lane in a black Dolce & Gabbana corset gown. It’s impossible for this woman to look bad.
•  Anne Hathaway in white sparkly Armani Prive – okay, we liked the pailettes, even if it weighed two tons, and she always looks pretty – loved the clean hair and red lips. But she looked uncomfortable and weighed down, and we think she could have done better. And she has done better – the Globes dress was MUCH better.
• Tilda Swinton – she toned it down in a blouse and skirt ensemble that was chic, and we like evening separates. Her red lips looked great with it. She’s an Oscar avant gardist, and we love her bravery.
• Tina Fey – she didn’t wear BLACK!!! She wore silver!! She looked HOT!! And cool! In Zac Posen – what a cool NY girl should wear.
• Halle Berry in black strapless and gold Marchesa – pretty.
• Beyonce in a mermaid black and gold House of Dereon design, probably her own. Very sexy.

 

MAJOR MISSES      

• Heidi Klum in the red thigh-high slit giant collared Roland Mouret: sorry, Heidi – but a fashion professional gets judged even more harshly. You wore a red dress like this to the Oscars before. Come ON, the whole idea is to look different. We love Roland Mouret, but this one looked like something out of “The Jetsons” – and the high slit was more becoming to the Grammy’s. Do you really need that much attention? They better get “Project Runway” back on the air, pronto!
• Vanessa Hudgens in an encrusted Marchesa fishtail black and white gown – too much texture on too tiny a girl. Her hair and makeup were pretty, though.
• Sophia Loren – okay, so she’s an icon, and she’s nearly eighty. She was wearing a child’s dress in an adult size – and a deep fake tan in a yellow dress – please, let’s leave that to Donatella.
• Miley Cyrus – You’ve dressed like you’re 12. Now you dressed like you’re 40. What about 16? That dress by Zuhair Muhrad looked like it might have worked at the Oscars in 1958.
•  Goldie Hawn – Does it matter who designed that beige nightgown? Her tan boobs were falling out, and it was just – embarrassing. Has she ever heard the word “class” – ?

 

MINOR MISSES  

• Reese Witherspoon’s two tone black and blue Rodarte was fashion forward, but overwhelming on her – she’s too tiny for all that dress. Also, her hair and makeup just flopped. Stylists Claire and Nina Hallworth just don’t do her justice.
•  Jessica Biel – the bow front white Prada was a cool move, a very fashion move – but it obscured her amazing figure. Maybe women liked this dress – but men wanted that big bow GONE. Interesting choice, though.
• Meryl Streep – the dress actually wasn’t that bad. She’s done worse. Now that hair  . . . . .
• Alicia Keys – that lavender Armani Prive gown was great. The hair was WAY too big, and so were those earrings!!!!!
• Jennifer Aniston in silver Valentino strapless – again, she didn’t wear black – that’s major for her. However, leaving her hair down and undone, and wearing an old-school style gown – she looked like she doesn’t care about fashion. And she doesn’t.

 

Well, the Milan shows will be starting very soon, and Paris is next week. But if you need a fashion adrenaline kick this week – and well, we’re all adrenaline junkies in our way, aren’t we? – Fashion Rules has some very cool events for you:

 

MONDAY  2/23  The Hammer Museum on Wilshire in Westwood tonight at 7 pm will present a very interesting symposium called “Conscientious Consumption: Sustainability: the Future of Luxury,” conducted by Vogue’s Fashion News and Features Director. She will discuss this highly current topic with four L.A. based designers: jewelry superstar Tom Binns, Dosa’s Christina Kim, Rodarte’s Kate Mulleavy, and jeans don Adriano Goldschmied. The program is free, but you would be wise to arrive early for a seat. There will be a Q and A afterwards.

 

TUESDAY 2/24  Christian Louboutin is doing an in-store at his newish boutique in Costa Mesa’s South Coast Plaza

Former stylist (to Sarah Jessica Parker and Nicole Kidman) turned designer L’Wren Scott is in L.A. with paramour Mick Jagger (they went to the Vanity Fair party last night, of course – that’s her with Mick in our photo), and she’s doing a trunk show of her fall eponymous collection at Barneys in Beverly Hills on Tuesday between 2pm and 4pm. Her spring collection was amazing, so we’re excited to see fall – before her fans in Paris do.

         

Todd Oldham will be making an appearance at the Otis College of Art and Design to work with the students on Tuesday at 10:30 am.  - Merle Ginsberg

Since Sarah Jessica Parker stopped going to the Emmys, the high fashion quotient of this particular red carpet has fallen off considerably. Watching the 60th annual Emmys on Sunday night, we wondered: where are the labels? Sure, true fashionista Heidi Klum was trend-spot-on in her metallic one shoulder tiered Armani Prive’ – but where was the Dior? (Rita Wilson WAS wearing Dior, but it was white, and didn’t fit her properly at all.) Where was the Chanel? Where was the Lanvin, the Nina Ricci, the Givenchy, the Balenciaga? The Valentino? There are so many fabulous dresses out there right now – Anna Hathaway’s Versace at the Venice Film Festival took our breath away – but the Emmy dresses were wildly typical.

 

 

 

True, Kyra Sedgwick DID wear L’Wren Scott, a very progressive designer – but a tight white cocktail sheath  is not a huge fashion statement. The problem with the Emmys is that they hit between NY and London fashion weeks, and then Milan, which started today. Somehow, it ups the ante for Emmy visuals when fashionistas everywhere are checking out Style.com to look at the fresh looks for Europe every minute.

 

Since everyone is doing TOP TEN LISTS, here is Fashionrules.com’s TOP TEN LIST OF EMMY FASHION, in no particular order:

 

 

JANUARY JONES: We know a lot of critics were hoping to see Ms. Jones, a spittin’ image of Grace Kelly, channel her character Betty Draper from “Mad Men” – and we can undertand why: Betty is beyond chic in her Hermes riding looks and lovely skirts and sweaters. However, we love that January wore a white Dolce & Gabbana fishtail gown – she is one of the few women in the world who could look good in something like this. It was made for her. It’s daring, it’s tight, it’s sexy – and she rocked it. We also loved the Grecian headbands she wrapped around her, totally staying away from Betty Draper’s little wavy flip.

 

 

 

MARCIA CROSS: We’ve heard a lot of flack about Marcia’s pale lace and tulle couture cocktail dress by Elie Saab – but we LOVED it. So what if it’s the same color as her skin? There is no rule that says that’s a crime – as long as it looks good, and it did. (The red hair helped.)  We loved the lace insets, which is a huge trend for fall –and the full tulle skirt, which is exactly what we saw on the spring runways of NY Fashion week. Nothing desperate or housewifey here at all.

 

 

HEIDI KLUM: Heidi knows how to work a look, and years of practice have taught this ex-super-model how to work it head to toe. Because her metallic one shoulder tiered Armani Prive gown was a stunner – and had a lot of fabric – she pulled back the hair, and worked a lowkey makeup look. With the wrong makeup and hair, this dress could have been a disaster – but Heidi knows the golden rule of flamboyant dresses: take everything else down a peg. It came off like a charm – and she made a major dress look almost simple – and chic. She actually looked comfortable in that dress – a hard thing to pull off. The dress NEVER wears Heidi – Heidi ALWAYS wears the dress.

 

 

 

MARISKA HARGITAY: There’s yellow – and then there’s marigold. Mariska’s Carolina Herrera asymmetrical gown was a bold choice, and went well with her skintone and her haircolor. We also loved her cute French twist, which was chic and made the dress look more high fashion – but not TOO high fashion. A perfect head to toe look – very now. Chic, high fashion – and a little bit casual, as her hair was loose and her makeup downplayed.

 

 

 

CHRISTINA APPLEGATE: The light blue sari-like Reem Acra dress is pretty, and particularly pretty on a blonde. But there’s a lot of fabric here, and it kind of took over Applegate’s look – we really couldn’t see her fabulous figure. Also, the tight high up-do and deep red lips made this dress seem much more formal than it was. Applegate did not look like she was having fun. The dress was soft and flowy – and hair and makeup, very grown up and matronly. They simply didn’t well work together. We wanted to pull her hair looser, wipe off the lipstick, and take a scissor to half the dress. Then it would have been a winner.

 

 

 

PERREY REEVES: Reeves donned an Alice Temperley cream strapless dress with red and black detail – and Temperley’s dresses are floaty, beautifully designed, and unique – congrats for picking a great designer who’s underused on the red carpet. Her hair was soft and pretty, and we saw a whole other side of her from Entourage’s uptight anorexic Mrs. Ari.

 

 

 

OLIVIA WILDE: It doesn’t hurt that “House’s” Wilde is a true exotic beauty. But instead of going for a sexy Pussycat Dolls look, she chose a demure pearl grey Reem Acra Grecian chiffon gown with small cap sleeves – and it really highlighted her beauty. She looked better than anyone – and it wasn’t all about her dress. It was all about her.

 

 

 

SANDRA OH: We simply LOVE this black and neutral lace Oscar de la Renta gown with a bow belt – it hits all the right trends, and even with a skirt that bells into tiers of lace, it is still shaped to Sandra’s lithe body. A winner!!! This gown manages to grab attention while remaining a bit quiet – a hard combo to come by.

 

 

 

CHRISTINA HENDRICKS: “Mad Men’s” busty redhead busted out of the series in her first red carpet appearance in an emerald dress Grecian gown by Tadashi that accentuates her overflowing cleavage and her creamy skintone. Again, she chose to play away from Joan Holloway, her “Mad Men” sexy secretary – and show her modernity. We love a redhead in bright green. And in this age of the 90 pound actress, we love a voluptuous goddess.

 

 

 

DEBRA MESSING: Messing is a fashion pro – she simply gets it, and always has. Since “Will & Grace” has gone off the air, she’s had a tendency to play it down and play it safe – but her safe is everybody else’s risk. Her wavy hair and heavy lashes did her justice, and the black strapless Monique L’hullier gown with a big lacy skirt was both dramatic and subtle at the same time. Also, she was accompanying her husband, who was nominated for writing – and didn’t want to steal his thunder. But Ms. Messing always has a little fashion thunder clapping wherever she goes.

 

HONORABLE MENTION:

 

BROOKE SHIELDS: LOVE the color of this Badgley Mischka fuscia floral lace gown, and only a woman as tall and chic as Brooke could pull this off. It took some nerve – and she’s got it.

 

 

 

VANESSA WILLIAMS: She looked slinky and chic in this Kevan Hall white mermaid gown with black and pink floral detail. Williams was one of the very few women to brave wearing a print – and she carried it solidly. Wisely, she toned down the hair and makeup, and looked gorgeous. A tigress in the lipstick jungle.

 

 

 

TINA FEY: Her deep purple strapless David Meister was very sexy for this normally underdone comedienne. But she wore it well – keeping her hair messy so that she didn’t have to look like she was trying too hard. Tina – you’re nearly at bombshell status: don’t hold back!!! She needs to get that embarrassed, “Is this really ME?” look off her face, and own it.

 

 

 

AMERICA FERRERA: One of the few actresses who can pull off red lipstick, she waved her hair forties style to go with it, and donned a strapless vintage ruched dress that looked really old Hollywood, but modern at the same time. How is it ugly Betty is emerging as a real fashions star? Well, if you work at a fashion magazine . . . 

 

And, as long as we’re doing the TOP TEN LIST, we might as well do a NOT QUITE GOOD ENOUGH list, too:

 

 

 

KATE WALSH: Oh, Kate! You look so hot and sexy in your scrubs – why didn’t you just wear those? We’re all in favor of actresses breaking out of their tv images – in her case, “Grey’s Anatomy’s” and “Private Practice’s” Addison Montgomery – but with a blunt bob and dark red lips and in a super tight Zuhair Murad HORIZONTAL STRIPED DRESS (the ultimate no no!!! Kate Walsh looking hippie?) was SO not Addison, she was barely recognizable. Kate – fire your stylist. It ain’t workin. You can do so much better.

 

JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS: We live salmon color, and we liked it on Julia. We love Narciso Rodriguez. But this dress is WAY TOO TIGHT for JLD’s body. It belongs on a runway model, not a star this fleshy. How great it might have looked if Narciso had done it in a softer, more forgiving fabric – but then, that isn’t what he does. He does skintight. That’s why his clothes don’t usually make it to awards shows, unless they’re on Rachel Weisz, who somehow pulls it off. Perhaps she should lend her set of spanx to Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

 

 

EVA LONGORIA PARKER: The silver bow and fringe flapper dress by Marchesa is super cute for a movie premier or a cocktail party – but not the Emmys. It looks wildly undignified – although to Eva’s credit, it IS fashion forward. Cute, yes – chic, no. There’s too much bust showing AND too much leg – Eva never learned you have to chose just one. Also, the flat flat bob and the heavily contoured brown blush with no lip color and what looks like an entire cake of black liner is just SO eighties, we’re having a Joan Collins moment. Eva clearly thinks she has become Victoria Beckham – but she isn’t tall enough – nor bold enough – to pull off what Posh can pull off. Who is?’’

 

 

LAUREN CONRAD: Lauren Conrad designed Lauren Conrad’s navy strapless dress with the brooch – and quite honestly, she needs a better designer. LC does fine with simple prom styles for her 16 year old fans – but for the Emmys, she could have done a lot better. We know a marketing tool when we see one. Navy is nice – but what about a full short skirt with a tight bodice, and a tulle underskirt, a la Oscar de la Renta? Lauren didn’t get that lesson in sewing class ye t- she’s still on strapless prom dress 101. Next time, Lauren, wear Nina Ricci. Honey, leave it to the experts. You can sell your dresses at Target, but not with millions watching.

 

 

 

TERI HATCHER: Teri’s Monique L’hullier ruffled yellow gown was pretty – but better for a summer awards show than a fall one. Maybe L.A. WAS in the eighties on Emmy day – but nowhere else was. Yellow is the hardest color of all to wear, as we know – and while it works well on brunettes, the dress just took over – and Teri’s slightly fell-out-of-bed hair and makeup made it look like she threw on her nightgown, hailed a cab, and ran over.

 

  

 

HAYDEN PANETTIERE: The young star looks fresh with her hair simple and pulled back, but the dress looks like it’s her mothers – it’s too long and it’s too mature. With all those fresh ballerina looks out there, it’s a shame she had to look so dour.

 

 

 

HOLLY HUNTER: First of all, Hunter didn’t know that the “young L.A. designer Jenny Packham” is actually a British designer. Know your designers, people!! You got the dress for free, now memorize a few lines! We liked Hunter in the lavender color, but the dress has little shape, and was built for a twenty year old. Hunter’s got a great figure, but could have used more tailoring and shape – not a halter that just hangs there. Also, her frizzy over-dyed blonde hair didn’t help matters. This is the way teenagers go to awards shows: NOT Oscar winners. Holly, fire your stylist.

 

Hollywood stylist-turned-designer L’Wren Scott turned up in L.A. this week to have a little in-store cocktail soiree at Maxfield, so that her insider customers could order from her spring collection. Scott, who now resides in London, just showed spring in NY last week – and the mostly all white and all black collection sells exclusively at Barneys, Jeffrey, Maxfield’s in L.A., and online at Net-a-Porter. This time, paramour Mick Jagger was not along for the ride (Sarah Jessica Parker and Ellen Barkin also attended in NY) – but lots of chic people did turn up to purchase from the collection that features skinny white jeans shown with an all-feather white coat. One of the highlights was a necklace L’Wren designered that is on sale also at Maxfield’s – a long long rope of diamonds all finessed and cut in different cuts and shapes. It apparently took her three years to complete it, and sells for about a million dollars. Now, on Mick Jagger’s budget, that’s pocket change. These days, rock stars are the only ones who can spend that kind of change in one place.