Apparently, according to the hilariously wise wizards over at Project Rungay, Malin Akerman's dress from the recent premiere of The Watchmen is one that Rami Kashou sent down the runway in February 2008 during the finale of his Project Runway season. And thank God they remembered that, because I had apparently blanked out his collection entirely, except for the fact that he used teal satin.
First, take a gander at the dress as it appeared on the catwalk:
And here's how it translated on Malin:
First, take a gander at the dress as it appeared on the catwalk:
And here's how it translated on Malin:
Seeing things come off the runway and onto the bodies of starlets is so interesting, because you're plucking a dress out of a semi-fanciful setting -- in which it was intended to be viewed as part of a cohesive whole -- and deploying it out of context in the real world. The twain don't always meet kindly. In this case, I think what seemed impressive and fun on the runway looks a little overdone at a comic-book-movie premiere. No doubt the construction is really intricate and precise, but the shoulder pieces are completely overwhelming. They're kind of like the little hats you'd see on somebody's chambermaid back in The Olden Days. Or a fascinator some obscure British woman of title has sitting in her closet just WAITING for the day that Wills marries Kate Middleton, so she can get into a heated headgear contest with some of her dimly related brethren and/or Camilla Parker-Bowles, possibly resulting in her photo getting in a Daily Mail slideshow and vaulting her out of obscurity. Or something Phoebe Price will turn into a bra eventually. Or a lower-tier ribbon that you'd see stuck to the rump of Zuckerman's Slightly Less Famous Pig, assuming you were even looking at that pig and not at Wilbur.
I find myself wishing they'd repurposed the dress a little and taken off the fancy-pants epaulets, making it strapless. Because there's a lot of lovely going on elsewhere, and it doesn't need distracting pleated coffee filters to keep her shoulders warm.
