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You know something funny? Just a generation ago, actors dressed themselves and they often did so badly. Few if any movie stars or t.v. stars were known for their impeccable style off-camera, much less the ability to influence trends. If Hollywood ever created a trend, it was in the context of the film itself not how the stars dressed in real life. For example, 1985's Out Of Africa started a run on prairie skirts and lace-up boots but even to this day, Meryl Streep is hardly considered Tinseltown's fashion plate. The stars of the first three SW films were pretty much in the same boat; nobody cared what they wore in real-life and for good reason ;). I was actually shocked when I saw Harrison Ford on the cover of GQ in 1986. "When did that happen?" I thought.
Today it's a totally different story. It all started in the 1990s when Joan and Melissa Rivers would ask everyone on the red carpet, "Who are you wearing?" and trashed everyone who looked like crap afterwards. I remember when Sarah Jessica Parker was one of the WORST-dressed women in Hollywood and one of Joan Rivers' favorite targets. Parker completely changed her style and became a fashion icon after her gig on Sex and the City. Actresses grace the fashion mag covers that once featured supermodels. We know what they buy and who they're wearing, even if they are just in t-shirts and jeans to get a coffee. There are dozens of online stores that will advertise their products by who wears them. Even a two-bit starlet on a second-rate show has a stylist working for her. (Some stylists like Rachel Zoe become celebrities in their own right.) It seems like every star of any magnitude has a perfume, clothing line, handbag line, cosmetics line, etc..
Of course, our modern SW celebs are in on the trend. I've posted before about Natalie Portman's non-beast pricey shoe line, which just unleashed its fall offerings for Te Casan. Have to say, I really like all of them. The yellow wedge flat is HOT. Why oh why must it be $285?
http://tecasan.com/designerItems.aspx?id=168
This is old news, but you--or the guy in your life--can smell like Ewan McGregor! Ewan has been hired as the spokesmodel for Davidoff Adventure cologne, introduced earlier this year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvldSrhscuo
Hey, at least a bottle ain't $300 ;).
Not to be outdone in the fragrance-shilling department, Hayden just finished filming an ad for Lacoste's cologne line (from desiringhayden.net):
But in the meantime, his main squeeze of two years Rachel Bilson has done one of those celebrity "designer" lines for DKNY Jeans:
http://www.dkny.com/jeans/collection.php?view=RachelBilsonsEdieRose
Rachel's run into some controversy because of a dress obviously knocked off from a pricier version by an expensive Thai-based designer and because she's frequently photographed wearing every premium denim line under the sun but not "her" line for DKNY Jeans. How bad is it? At an event in Florida to promote the line, she wore this:
Those are Adriano Goldschmied jeans. Oops!
Today it's a totally different story. It all started in the 1990s when Joan and Melissa Rivers would ask everyone on the red carpet, "Who are you wearing?" and trashed everyone who looked like crap afterwards. I remember when Sarah Jessica Parker was one of the WORST-dressed women in Hollywood and one of Joan Rivers' favorite targets. Parker completely changed her style and became a fashion icon after her gig on Sex and the City. Actresses grace the fashion mag covers that once featured supermodels. We know what they buy and who they're wearing, even if they are just in t-shirts and jeans to get a coffee. There are dozens of online stores that will advertise their products by who wears them. Even a two-bit starlet on a second-rate show has a stylist working for her. (Some stylists like Rachel Zoe become celebrities in their own right.) It seems like every star of any magnitude has a perfume, clothing line, handbag line, cosmetics line, etc..
Of course, our modern SW celebs are in on the trend. I've posted before about Natalie Portman's non-beast pricey shoe line, which just unleashed its fall offerings for Te Casan. Have to say, I really like all of them. The yellow wedge flat is HOT. Why oh why must it be $285?
http://tecasan.com/designerItems.aspx?id=168
This is old news, but you--or the guy in your life--can smell like Ewan McGregor! Ewan has been hired as the spokesmodel for Davidoff Adventure cologne, introduced earlier this year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvldSrhscuo
Hey, at least a bottle ain't $300 ;).
Not to be outdone in the fragrance-shilling department, Hayden just finished filming an ad for Lacoste's cologne line (from desiringhayden.net):
But in the meantime, his main squeeze of two years Rachel Bilson has done one of those celebrity "designer" lines for DKNY Jeans:
http://www.dkny.com/jeans/collection.php?view=RachelBilsonsEdieRose
Rachel's run into some controversy because of a dress obviously knocked off from a pricier version by an expensive Thai-based designer and because she's frequently photographed wearing every premium denim line under the sun but not "her" line for DKNY Jeans. How bad is it? At an event in Florida to promote the line, she wore this:
Those are Adriano Goldschmied jeans. Oops!
