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| Primetime Emmy Awards 2013 |
Whenever we indulge in the delights of weekly gossip
magazines, it’s always impossible to flick through without coming across the regular
best-dressed lists features, which separate the fashionistas from the fashion
victims. The lists showing some of the world’s best-loved celebrities who have
been looking spectacular and have been dressing appallingly. But is it just a
bit of innocent tongue in cheek fun or a form of playground bullying?
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| Eleanor Lambert |
The concept of the best-dressed list was founded in 1940 by
Eleanor Lambert, who was a renowned figure within the American fashion public
relations industry. It was an attempt to improve the declining reputation of
the American fashion industry at the time at the outset of World War II. Prior
to her death in 2003 at the age of 100, she had left her International Best
Dressed List to four of Vanity Fair’s editors. The first lists were mostly wealthy society women who were famous for
spending entire fortunes every year on haute couture, while movie stars were
rarely named to it, as they were dressed by their studios. Now it features a
multitude of celebrities - from the A-List to the Z-List.
Best dressed lists have since become a hugely prominent
figure within the wonderful world of women’s media. There has also been a hit
TV series based around that concept known as Fashion Police, featuring
legendary comedienne Joan Rivers leading a panel of fashionistas which include
reality star Kelly Osbourne, E! News anchor Giuliana Rancic and celebrity
stylist George Kotsiopoulous. I personally find this very enjoyable, even
though some of Joan Rivers’ punchlines remarks often leave me open-mouthed and
create a shocked silence within the room.
Other times I am in complete hysterics and find it impossible to breathe
due to my excessive laughter. But I see this purely as comedy and is by no
means intended to be personal.
At the end of the day, celebrities are human beings and
it would be an extremely unpleasant thing to live in a society where we are
judged on what we are wearing. We are only human after all, and we always have
a right to be wrong, whether its fashion or life in general.
The world of best-dressed lists is a very complex one indeed
and a very difficult one to explain. I generally think it is built on hypocrisy
and a bundle of contradictions. What might be a best-dressed candidate in one
person’s opinion may be a worst-dressed candidate in another person’s opinion
and vice versa. I believe that it all comes down to personal taste and opinion.
We all see the world through our own eyes…
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