Monday, September 19, 2011

63rd Primetime Emmy Awards 2011 Red Carpet

Well dear readers, it turns out Sunday night's 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards celebrating the best of television was no different than any other long winded and mostly unfunny awards show with pompous movie star presenters (Gwyneth anyone?), embarrassing side act announcers, and badly acted acceptance speeches for best acting awards. Save for the awesome winning sweep of my favorite show "Modern Family," and a mostly enjoyable host - Glee's coach Sue Sylvester aka actress Jane Lynch who tried very hard for some laughs, the rest of the evening was boooring, and sadly so were almost all of the red carpet fashions except for a few pleasant standouts in the night's popular shade of RED including Sofia Vergara in sculpted Vera Wang, Kerry Washington in gorgeous glittery Zuhair Murad, Kate Winslet in Elie Saab, and knockout Connie Britton in sexy chiffon. So let's skip right over the tiny Best Dressed category (which you can find all the way down) and right into the Worst Dressed on the red carpet, as here are RedPoppy's picks for hideous, along with special mentions for the night's trendy orange oompa loompa look...

WORST DRESSED
Taraji P. Henson 
Gaaaaaah!
Julianna Margulies
My mother calls this a spaghetti strainer..... She may be right...
Jane Krakowski
Must've fallen into a vat of self tanner at some point over the weekend...

Paz de la Huerta
This fierce oompa loompa.....is scaring the begeezus out of me
Amy Poehler
...wearing helium balloon couture in midnight blue

Heidi Klum
....is OUT in this outfit

Gwyneth Paltrow
...wins the oompa loompa tummy award

Kristen Wigg
Ombre shades of poop...

BEST DRESSED IN RED
 Kerry Washington

Connie Britton

Kate Winslet

Sofia Vergara

Photos courtesy of People.com

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

NYFW Spring 2012: Diane von Furstenberg

Diane von Furstenberg knows how to do prints, and her colorful and bold collection for Spring 2012 is no exception. It's gorgeous and I'll take one of each....
Images courtesy of Style.com

Shopping & Goodies Weekly

Check out this week's Shopping & Goodies!...

A Few Goody Gumdrops had a great interview with Bryan Boy! See what he had to say!
Girls Talkin Smack shares the latest scoop! Rihanna dropped Jay Z as her manager.
RedPoppy is loving these latest looks from New York Fashion Week...
Shopping and Info is excited to wear Paper Crown's pink ruffle dress as seen on Lauren Conrad.
The Budget Fashionista show us Five Fall Fashion Trends For Real Women!
TheFind gives satchels the slouchy treatment with Lauren Merkin, Anya Hindmarch and more
-Image via Shopping & Goodies 

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

New York Fashion Week Spring 2012

Chris Benz
Hello there! It has been a good few days but I am back in New York after spending a long and amazing weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival where I discovered the wonders of a new bustling city, and where I was so warmly welcomed as a guest at the screening for the powerful film In Darkness, directed by Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland. Make sure to see the film as soon as it comes to a theater/film festival near you! In the meantime, it has also been a bustling week here in New York City with the fashion swirl of the Spring/Summer 2012 (didn't we just finish summer 2011??) runway collections being shown at Lincoln Center and all over the city. There were loads of prints and graphics, and here are some of my favorite looks of the last week:
Alexander Wang
Tory Burch
Carolina Herrera
Derek Lam
Zac Posen
Prabal Gurung
Callula Lillibelle
Marc by Marc Jacobs
Images courtesy of WWD

Thursday, September 8, 2011

See you at TIFF!

Hello All! The best news of the week is that my laptop has finally been fixed (it's about bloody time!) In fact I've only just this minute brought it home looking and functioning as good as new (let's hope it stays that way for a very long time...) In other exciting news, I am both honored and excited to be attending the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this weekend. One of the featured films, In Darkness, directed by Agnieszka Holland,  tells the unbelievable true story of a group of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust in the city's sewers. Amongst the surviving group were two brave and heroic individuals who were to become lifelong inspirations to me: my grandparents. I absolutely can't wait to see the film, and I've already set aside two packets of Kleenex. So while being at TIFF this weekend means I will have to miss FNO (you all know how much I've been looking forward to that Missoni pop up store and all the other amazing fashion events...*sigh*), it also means there is a high chance of yours truly casually bumping into fellow festival goers George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Madonna, or perhaps even Ryan Gosling. Not a bad trade after all...and of course I promise to keep you posted on that....

VOGUE Brazil

Jewelry and food, what could be better?!
-Model Constance Jablonski in Vogue Brazil's August 2011 issue
Images courtesy of FGR