Once Again, British Red Carpet Beats American Red Carpet at Wearing Clothes & Looking Cool
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Remember the Grammys a few weeks ago? The red carpet was fine. Lady Gaga, who just five years ago arrived in a dinosaur egg, wore Marc Jacobs. We expect musicians to get a little looser, to play with their artistic leeway in their looks more than actors, but for the most part they wore some variation of evening gown, typical of the way Los Angeles and stylists and fashion-house lending has turned US red carpets into the style equivalent of cream-of-wheat.
You know the Brits? They’re the British equivalent of the Grammys, and the apparent lack of stylist culture—and the fact that Londoners dress better than basically anyone else in the Western world—made for a fun red carpet that did not bore! For instance, BBC DJ Annie Mac took to the carpet in a sequined rainbow gown, and fellow ginger Florence Welch went like some kind of white-magic vampire.
Ginger number three Jess Glynne played up her locks with a disco suit in glorious emerald green, while model Sadie Pinn and OG punk designer Pam Hogg did precisely what punks are designed to do: freak out the posh, freak out the tabloids. Look at Pam, grinning!
So the fashion blogs are telling us that Adele wore a custom Giambattista Valli gown, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a freakin’ caftan. Super Bette Midler at Club Med in Stella, so obviously I adore it. Even Lana del Rey, whose street style is usually the equivalent of a sophomore soror pledge at some state school, stepped it up, doing chintz bathroom robe and boudoir slippers better than even my mom. Accordingly, Rihanna didn’t feel the pressure to be the only person stepping it up, dressed in simple lavender with scalloped detailing. Model Tali Lennox, daughter of Annie, dressed up as an original supe—Cindy Crawford in ‘91 realness.