Apparently, I am supposed to be clutching my pearls in horror at the whole Sarah Jessica Parker dress controversy -- namely, that this gown had been worn before not once but TWICE, which has caused SJP to say things about how she is so disappointed in the designer for this terrible oversight and has the media claiming it's trashing her "fashion icon" status. Come on, really? I get that Sex and the City hinges on being able to brag about all the free, so-fresh-off-the-catwalk-it-hasn't-even-been-on-it-yet clothes it uses, so this was an important premiere, but let's get some perspective here. Would it REALLY have been better if she'd worn never-before-seen
electric blue-and-chartreuse leggings, simply because they'd yet to
skim another human's inner thigh? Has it really RUINED EVERYTHING? Do we all NEED to be running off and slamming our bedroom doors so that everyone knows we are having a wicked-serious tantrum? Just ONCE I wish someone would be like, "You know what? I don't care. The dress is awesome, and I looked hot. Big freaking deal."
Having said that, let's have a squizz at Marchesa's Georgina Chapman:
And now let's bring in Lake Bell, from back in April:
Having said that, let's have a squizz at Marchesa's Georgina Chapman:
And now let's bring in Lake Bell, from back in April:
Once a dress has been released into a starlet's orbit, it seems weird for the designer (I assume it's Marchesa, by the rosettes at least, but maybe not) to trot it out herself. Shouldn't she have, like, a Marchesa Special Reserve Collection that she keeps in an acid-free trunk in a hermetically sealed closet somewhere in Harvey Weinstein's NYC penthouse? Granted, it's not like Lake Bell is so famous and iconic in this outfit that Georgina is repeating something that's seared on our brains -- not like, say, me wearing Bjork's swan to dinner somewhere -- but in my eyes, if anyone should not have to regurgitate clothes, it is the person who makes them.
Maybe Chapman had been dying to wear it. Maybe she donned it just to prove it could be done without looking like a no-necked pass-rusher who is moments away from sacking the quarterback. Because of that effect, I was conflicted on this dress back when Lake wore it, but I never wrote about it because I couldn't decide if it was a REAL problem or just a product of me not understanding why we have Lake Bell at all. Chapman to her credit looks less wonky-of-shoulder, but alas, it's doing strange things to her boobs, which is an area where no woman wants to hear the word "strange" invoked unless she is Pamela Anderson and thus has paid mightily for that effect.
Now, hopefully, Georgina is at home saying, "You know what? I don't care. The dress is awesome, and I looked hot. Big deal." But, while I'll give her that she is gorgeous, I can't decide if I'm with her on the dress's awesomeness. Was it really worth it?
