Cause Célèbre: Let’s dress TIFF stars out of the Style Box
Cause Célèbre: Let’s dress TIFF stars out of the Style Box
On Thursday, Gail McInnes and Amanda Brugel flung open the Style Box, a Canadian designer showroom and celeb-dressing service that aims to put the shine on A-list stars. And though the city’s socialites might not believe this, there is a higher firmament to be reached. So we decided to play dress-up and outfit some of TIFF’s most hotly anticipated arrivals—Emily Blunt, Jennifer Connelly and Penélope Cruz among them—in homestyle creations from the Box’s inaugural red-carpet parade.
View the slide show after the jump.
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- <strong>MARIAH CAREY</strong><br />Mariah Carey deglams herself for no less than Oprah—she plays a social worker in the buzzy Winfrey-produced <em>Precious.</em> To get her va-va-voom back, we suggest something in vermilion silk by Starkers Corsetry. Mariah’d want to wear it for its pneumatic, curve-promoting bustier. We’d want her to wear it in the dim hope she’d fade into the red carpet, making her incorrigible diva-ness easier to ignore.
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- <strong>JENNIFER CONNELLY</strong><br /> Suddenly, with this dare-we-say-fierce ensemble, Danier isn’t your mother’s leather brand anymore—it’s your MILF’s. In that category, who can contest Jennifer Connelly’s crown? No stranger to sartorial risk, the 38-year-old <em>Creation</em> star and Darwinian success story would be a lean dream in second-skin leather and knit. Caveat: that top has to be swapped for something sequined or velvet, sure, but not both.
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- <strong>ELLEN PAGE</strong><br /> Precociously talented and resultantly insufferable, <em>Whip It</em> girl Ellen Page seems like one of those tomboys who demurs that she’s not pretty enough to wear dresses, when you know she really thinks she’s too smart. Fine. We’ll play it your way, Page. Put on Jason Meyers’ über-ruffled tuxedo pantsuit—it looks comfortable enough to wear while sitting in corners, for hours on end, sulking.
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- <strong>PENELOPE CRUZ</strong><br /> Black. Lacy. Romantic. Over the top. Oscar de la Renta-ish. This Decadent Designs dress (and Midence Oliu millinery) is so Penelope Cruz that if anyone else were to wear it—back off, Megan Fox—she should sue for copyright infringement.
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- <strong>TILDA SWINTON</strong><br />It would take a formidable woman to face the flash in this half-sheer, half-taffeta bizarrity. Is this some kind of (literal) blanket statement? Draping techniques applied to actual drapes? No matter. If Tilda Swinton—here this year for the Italian drama <em>I Am Love</em>—can’t work it, no one can. This is the woman who once made a satin trash bag (or so the blogs said) look amazing. Then again, that was Lanvin. This is Sodalicious.
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- Photos by Raymund Galsim, courtesy of Knot PR
- <strong>EMILY BLUNT</strong><br />The hot little embodiment of the queen in <em>The Young Victoria</em> has established a preference for all frocks strapless and snug, though not blatantly sexy. In a smart Mulcair number, all too likely inspired by <em>Mad Men,</em> she’d look like a martini olive. (We mean that nicely. Martini olives are really tasty.) It’d be especially smashing were she to return to the hellion-red hair of her <em>Devil Wears Prada</em> days.
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View the slide show after the jump.
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Anyone in Style-land know if Toronto is showing Anna Wintour’s new documentary, The September Issue?
I read somewhere that it won’t be released here until October! I hope that’s not the case.
wow, that is so nice.
Thanks, Donna. I will be in NY next week. Will try to get a bootleg copy on Canal St.