The . Paparazzi . Reform . Initiative

In some ways it pains me to make this pledge, because I like a good gossip rag just as much as the next girl. However, I can't imagine what it must be like to not be able to get to your car because there are 30 flashbulbs going off around you. Or what it would be like to be accosted by photographers as you leave the grocery store. Or to have people waiting to take your photo parked outside your house. Yuck.


The Paparazzi Reform Initiative

So here's the pledge I'm taking: I will not read ANY celebrity gossip rags (online or in print). I will not blog ANY photos of celebrities that were not taken at events or without their explicit permission.

Privacy is the new black. Spread the word.

Versace . A/W . 2010

Just a pinch of a gorgeous/gorgeous ad campaign from Versace. I feel like this is the look that Taylor Momsen thinks she has, but, you know, doesn't.

Clemence + Chuck Bass

Gah!!! New in TV news this week: Clemence Poesy will be joining the cast of Gossip Girl this fall as a new love interest for Chuck Bass! I was disappointed with all but the last couple of episodes of GG this past season, but the addition of Clemence has me counting down the days until the show returns this fall!

What do you think: Clemence + Chuck, yay or nay?

MTV + Celebrities + Jumpsuits

The MTV Movie Awards are obviously not real awards, as they have such categories as "Best WTF Moment" and "Best Scared-as-Shit Moment." But the awards are still fun because of the clothes... and people tend to behave kind of silly.

As you can see, a couple of actresses decided to go the route of full jumpsuit with a crazy deep v-neck (which I would not recommend for, well, anyone), but there are a couple of differences.

I want to root for Lindsay Lohan, but she doesn't make it easy. Like, at all. Showing up someplace looking like Disco Porn Barbie is not the way to convince people that you're A-Okay. She could have gone in a different direction with this look. For instance, Elizabeth Reaser (who is as cute as can be) actually has made her jumpsuit thingy look classy, which is no small feat.

Maybe if we all say a little silent cheer for Lindsay, it will work...

Cutest . Couple . Award

How does one look so completely perfect getting off of an airplane? Josh and Diane always look amazing together... I should pull together a more proper post on them, but this was just too cute not to post immediately!

Pic: People

Spotlight: Zoe Saldana

The more I see of Zoe lately, the more I love her! She and her style are so cute it's positively infectious!!

Pics: tFS

Grace . Kelly = Perfection

Pic: unknown

Golden . Globes

Fashion at this year's Golden Globes really fell into two categories: absolutely stunning or perfectly awful. There wasn't a whole lot of, "Eh, that's nice." There was, however, a group of people (i.e. Amy Adams) who apparently weren't told what the Golden Globes were, as they wore things most befitting a night out at a fancy restaurant.

But on to the good part -- the best dressed:


Diane Kruger in Christian Lacroix


Drew Barrymore in Atelier Versace


Carey Mulligan in Nina Ricci


Emily Blunt in Dolce & Gabbana


Anna Paquin in Stella McCartney

My absolute favorite for the night was actually Helen Mirren. Yet despite the fact that she was nominated and a presenter, no one apparently thought to take many pictures of her. I'll keep searching!!

Pics: JustJared and CelebrityGossip

Fashion . {Help!}

If we can ignore the fact that Taylor Momsen is too young to wear a skirt that short, I love this outfit! BUT... I'm desperate to know who makes the coat and I can't find anywhere. Anywhere.

Does anyone know who makes it??

I've . Got . the . Gossip . Girl . Blues

** Spoiler Warning **
If you haven't seen the last few episodes of Gossip Girl (and care!), you might want to skip past this post!

I'll start out by saying that I do like Gossip Girl. And the first two seasons I watched on dvd, and watched in about two days.

This season, eh, it's okay. Some of the story lines seem like throwaway ideas, and I've written before about some of the very unrealistic aspects of GG, but this season seems to be pushing it even further. For instance,

1. Jenny - 16-year-old-high-schooler-still-living-with-her-parents-Jenny - continues to be dressed like a 40-year old prostitute who hangs out in the seedier parts of Miami.



Now that she's hooked up with a Euro Trash drug dealer (GG's words, not mine!), it's only a matter of time before she's doing lines off the toilet seat in some posh restaurant.

2. And speaking of wardrobe issues, Serena (who has, without the benefit of education or experience, somehow wrangled a PR job at a US Congressional office) is even more frequently being dressed like a high-class call girl. This is what she wore for a day at the office:



... granted, I have never worked for a congressman, but I suspect that coming into work in a skintight mini dress with bright red fishnets would not be looked on kindly.

Also, did anyone else think it a tad odd that immediately after winning election to office, the (supposed) ultra ethical congressman-elect thought the first and smartest thing he should do was have a martini with an 18-year old in a public bar? Hmmm....

3. Vanessa is going about her....adfafsfdvcxbgsG.



Sorry, I fell asleep at the computer. I don't know what real function Vanessa has on the show and she gets the most boring story lines ever.

4. Dan and Nate have sort of turned into the same character, but since neither C.C. or P.B. could act much to begin with, it doesn't really matter, does it?

5. Blair and Chuck. Ah, a bit of relief, at last. These two continue to smolder, plot, and smolder some more. Do little fires start all over the set when they film their scenes?



Perhaps we could all suggest that GG just become the Blair & Chuck show -- I would absolutely still watch that.

The third season is also where The O.C. started to go seriously downhill as well. Perhaps after two seasons, Josh Schwartz should just pass the creative buck onto someone else?

Sending . Chloe . a . Pinch . More . Love

It's no secret that Chloe Sevigny is completely and utterly fabulous. How she pulls off some of the styles she does, I'll never know. For instance,




In the first outfit she's wearing something that reminds me of quilted kids' bedding {though I'm sure it's much more expensive} and she looks fantastic! And then in the second photo, she manages to make having her bra showing look classy. Who can do that?

Love.

Pics: Celeb-Gossip.

A . Little . Redemption...

... for K. Stewart.



The shot is fantastic, and she looks gorgeous in that Alexander Wang dress. Pic: Harper's Bazaar

So . Many . Things . Happening...

... all of them so bad.



(Paint?) Splattered Jeans. (That really don't fit.)
Suspenders.
Bronze oxfords.
And then she's parted her unfortunate mullet to the side.

I like Kristen Stewart and I can only imagine it's horrible to have to deal with the amount of press she gets just for being in the Twilight movies, but there's no excuse for this. She looks like C. Thomas Howell in The Outsiders.

Movie . Star . Crush

There have been a couple of articles lately about Jim Carrey putting on a ton of weight (which I guess is for a movie). Though even if it weren't for a film, I could totally care less if he got fat -- I've had a HUGE crush on him since watching the brilliant/wonderful Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Totally hot.

Fashionable . Threesomes

Weren't these the days...



...when Blake didn't always look just shy of being a prostitute (albeit a high class, expensively dressed one), and Taylor was, well, not looking like a goth trollop?



Diane looks pretty fabulous as usual (wouldn't you just kill for her designer connections??). I think the other two girls are from 90210 or Melrose Place or some other show I don't watch, because I watched it the first time they made it... but they look pretty fabulous as well.

Pics: PopSugar

The . Circle . of . {Celebrity} . Life

"Then" ---------------- "Now" ---------------- "Later"

I don't think there's much hope for Lindsay, but: "TAYLOR!! IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO CHANGE!! FOR GOD'S SAKE, YOU'RE 16!!"

Pics: Popsugar

Break . Up

Not that I'm a cheerleader for divorce or anything, but I have to say that Scarlett Johansson and her new music partner Pete Yorn would make a way cuter couple than SJ and Ryan Reynolds...




...just sayin'...

All . Lined . Up

While I've decided that I should have more stripes in my wardrobe, this picture of Clemence Poesy makes me want to wear stripes every day:



...and speaking of stripes, (1) wrong way to wear stripes and ballet flats & (2) right way to wear stripes and ballet flats:



I really want to like Katie Homes, but she makes it very difficult when she looks like she got dressed with her eyes closed. I'm almost entirely certain that she used to be a fashionable person...stylish Katie, where are you?

Pics: tFS

Airport . Style

Wrong:



Right:



Anyone who's ever been on an airplane for like, a second, knows that it's not comfortable. If you have to fly for more than two hours, you're going to come off the plane a smidge rumpled. A mini and platforms is not going to get you around that, and on top of it you'll also be cold and uncomfortable.

Jessica and Kim are doing way.way.way better on the airport style front than Beyonce and Victoria. (Also, if I had my hair pulled back as tightly as VB does, my head would explode.) Layering is key: too hot? Take off the blazer. Too cold? Wrap the scarf!!

leaving on a jet plane by PrettyLittleWorld featuring American Eagle Outfitters

Right & Wrong

Okay, despite the fact that I'm still sick, and I just woke up (hoping to sleep away some of the germs), I can look at these two pictures from last's night premiere of Inglorious Bastards and easily see the right way to wear a mini and the wrong way to wear a mini:



...can you?

P.S. Lindsay's outfit does not improve if you see a side/back view of it...