Post Golden Globes

So last night was the Golden Globes, and despite the fact that I fell asleep for a good half hour around the 10 o’clock mark, I did manage to wake up in time to see the always pronounciation-ally challenged governor of California hobble out on his crutches from his recently broken leg to present the final award to Babel for the Best Picture-Drama category.

The It-couple of the new year, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were seated together along with the cast of the nominated film, Babel, and were less dazzling than they are cracked up to be. Brad’s face was caked with make-up and visibly stiff and awkward. Angelina’s hair was pulled back severely from her face, and looked frailly thin in her strapless charcoal grey St. John dress. Supposedly, Angie had a lot of trouble selecting her dress this year as all the dresses the designer showed her were only “so-so.” As per their normal public behavior,Brangelina were both so fascinated by all the obviously less attractive people around them that they barely looked at each other all night, including when Brad got up with the rest of the cast to receive Babel’s award at the end of the night.

America Ferrera (one of the few women I saw dressed in an indigo colored custom made gown by Brian Reyes--a nice change) was supremely sweet, and brought many in the audience to tears during her acceptance for Best Actress in a Comedy for Ugly Betty, after accepting the Best Comedy award earlier with the entire cast. Their screams of surprise and excitement were audible when their first award win was announced, as the first time winner proved to be quite a coup for a show in its first season based on an internationally popular telenovela.



Fashion:
Despite predictions earlier in the evening from supposed “fashion insiders” at Access Hollywood that we would see a lot of color on the red carpet, my fashion instincts were dead on as I felt that we would and did in fact see a lot of black and white.




Shopping at the Black Market:
Jennifer Hudson, Catherine Heigl, and a pregnant Nancy O'Dell all chose the always classic black. Courteney Cox wore a sexy sheer black lace dress with nude underlay and capped sleeves. Sharon Stone, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary Louise Parker, Tina Fey, Hilary Swank in Chanel couture, also chose black, while Jennifer Lopez wore a black toga-style Marchesa dress with gold trim. Penelope Cruz chose ruffles while Cate Blanchett wore a black lace off-the-shoulder number with an asymmetrical-hem by Alexander McQueen.




Staying at the White House:
Forget your mother’s outdated fashion guidelines about wearing white after Labor Day, winter white is here to stay and many at the Globes this year wore various shades of it. Evoking classic Hollywood glamour, some stuck to the classic white like Heidi Klum, Ellen Pompeo, Salma Hayek, Cameron Diaz (in Valentino with more ruffles and a black ribbon bow around her waist), and the always classy Kate Winslet wore a draped white Azzarro column dress with a dramatically dark red lip. Hayden Panettiere, from Heroes went for a white strapless number with emerald earrings and gold embellishment. Drew Barrymore learned her lesson from her bra-less stretchy green disaster last year and was beautifully elegant in a Grecian inspired John Galliano for Christian Dior gown. Nicollete Sheridan also went strapless with black ribbon trim, and black tulle poking out from an oversized mermaid tail. Jennifer Garner was in white with silver vintage Gaultier. Teri Hatcher wore a long white gown with a draped back and silver embellishments. Others, like Emily Blunt, chose off-white or cream-colored tones. Ali Larter, also from Heroes wore a cream Reem Acra.




Golden girls:
It seems only fitting that on Hollywood’s Golden night, where both stars of television and film are honored, that golden metallic shades were popular with fashion forward stars like Sarah Jessica Parker, Vanessa Williams, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sandra Oh, Beyonce, and Julia Louis Dreyfus. Salma Hayek even tapped the trend herself by pairing her white number with golden stilleto sandals. Jessica Biel went backless in a gold dress with a softly pinned updo, and Vanessa Minnillo wore a gold satin number.




Green with envy:
Other than a random yellow dress from Reese Witherspoon (with red shoes no less) an admitted first for Eva Longoria in a navy Ungaro gown, and a seemingly appropriate pink strapless column dress on Jada Pinkett Smith, the one color that did seem to pop up repeatedly were various shades of the revived green, which showed itself not only in its rich emerald jewel tone on the likes of Renee Zellwegger, Helen Mirren, and Maria Menounos, but also in the more muted mint shade on Felicity Huffman, Becki Newton, Tawney Cypress, and Elizabeth Mitchell.

Other trends:
Once again, oversized chandelier earrings were big, a leftover of recent award seasons past. Necklaces were skipped in order to not over-accesorize the dramatic danglers. Hair was mostly worn down, in soft waves, or pinned somewhat off of the face.


Hits:
While no one really stuck out for me as a certifiable hit in the fashion department, by default I will have to give my best dressed to Emily Blunt. The British new-comer who caught our eye earlier this year as the red-headed snobby assistant in The Devil Wears Prada wore an elegant cream colored dress with pearl embellished straps and an over-sized mermaid tail. Her win for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Miniseries or Movie for Gideon's Daughtermeant that she brought home two great prizes of the evening--her Golden Globe, and sexy Canadian crooner, Michael Buble, her boyfriend and date for the evening.





As a close second, Catherine Heigl also stunned in her strapless black number with a ruffled train and diamond jewelry. She is proving to be quite the red carpet stunner.













Misses:
The oh-so-awesomely talented Meryl Streep gave a hilariously cool and confident acceptance speech for her win as the fashion editor in The Devil Wears Prada, but her chameleon like qualities as an actress did not seem to absorb any of her character, Anna Wintour’s, expertise in the fashion department. While she did go for a trendy cream colored number, the color was too pale for her skin tone and nearly matched her hair color, to the point where she seemed like a faded picture.

While men have far fewer choices in the fashion department, making it that much harder to stand out, one would think it would also make it that much harder to mess up. Leave it to Charlie Sheen. In presenting the clip for his “big brother’s” film, Bobby, Emilio Estevez seemed hesitant to stand to receive recognition despite Charlie’s insistence, and a close up of his face while sitting in the audience seemed to read “I’d rather you not remind people that we’re related.” Long passed his days as the cool guy on campus, Mr. Sheen seemed to have forgotten to comb his hair after standing out in the wind for a cig, and then neglected to button his jacket as he walked out on stage. The entire tux itself seemed atleast 2 sizes too big for him, and the jacket and pants seemed to be hanging off of him, resulting in an over-all sloppy appearance.