Oscars - Cream Dresses

Cream was a popular choice at the Oscars this year. Being a simple colour, the focus was much more on the great shapes and sparkle detailing.

Giuliana Rancic in Tony Ward 

I love the detailing on Giuliana's gown. She was my favourite of the night, she looks amazing.

Milla Jovoich in Elie Saab

Octavia Spencer in Tadashi Shoji

I was so happy for Octavia Spencer when she won her Oscar. She looks gorgeous in this Tadashi Shoji dress which compliments her figure so well. I love how the sequins pull in at the waist.

Rooney Mara in Givenchy

Rooney Mara has been wearing black to most events so it was nice to see her in this cream dress. She did say it was a last minute choice which might explain why the fit isn't perfect. I think this could have been amazing with more time for a fitting! Her hair and makeup looks lovely though.

Jennifer Lopez in Zuhair Murad

 Cameron Diaz in Gucci

 All from Getty images

Cobalt vs Fuchsia - Runway Looks

Two of the hottest colours for this summer, cobalt and fuchsia. It still only feels like the start of summer here in Melbourne, it has taken a while for the weather to warm up. So these bright colours can help us feel like it's actually summer!

Both shades made appearances on multiple runways for Spring/Summer 2012. Here are some of my favourites.

Elie Saab RTW Spring/Summer 2012 Collection

Look 37                                  Look 38

Look 39                                  Look 40

Look 41                                  Look 42

Look 43                                  Look 44

Look 45                                  Look 46

I seriously love Elie Saab. His designs are amazingly feminine and the bold colour makes them even better. Love the lace detailing, sequins, sheer fabrics and belted waists.

Blake Lively wore this Elie Saab suit (look 37) to an event earlier in the month.



DKNY RTW spring/summer 2012 collection included these pieces in various fuchsia tones.

Look 34                                  Look 35

Look 36                                 Look 37

Alberta Ferretti Spring/Summer 2012 collection. Within the mix of white he used many different colours including one cobalt look and one fuchsia.

Look 11                                Look 24

Vera Wang RTW Spring/Summer 2012 collection

Look 36                                 Look 37

Dries Van Noten RTW Spring/Summer 2012

Look 14                               Look 16

I love this slightly darker shade of fuchsia. If you're not crazy about colour, wearing one bold piece with black and white is a great way to incorporate some brights without it being too intense.

I hope you all had a great Christmas and have an amazing New Year! I hope I have more time for blogging in the New Year. Working in retail around Christmas has been pretty crazy. I want to do an outfit post soon inspired by these cobalt and fuchsia looks.

Red Hot

Welcome to my new obsession - red!
I usually go for quite neutral colours or floral prints but recently I bought a couple of red dresses, now I love this shade.

The artwork is by Jody Pratt, a Melbourne illustrator whose website you can view here.

Sportsgirl easy retro dress in red (also comes in black) $89.95

It's a really flattering shape and perfect for girls that are much bigger at the hips and smaller at the waist. The cut out adds a little something to a simple silhouette.

For the last 2 weeks I've also been rocking lots of red nail polish and lippy.
The red really adds that pop of colour to plain outfits.
Wearing bombshell lipstick and tomato nail polish.

I'm sure all of you would know the Emmy's were this past week. Each awards show there may be a couple of ladies in red however this year the amount of red was at least triple.

Getty Images

Nancy O'Dell, Sofia Vergara in Vera Wang, Kate Winslet in Elie Saab

Kerry Washington in Zuhair Murad, Lea Michele in Marchesa, Adrianne Palicki

Angela Kinsey, Giuliana Rancic in Roberto Cavalli, Sarah Hyland in Christian Siriano

Connie Britton, Nina Dobrev in Donna Karan, Kathy Griffin

Both the Modern Family girls Sarah Hyland and Sofia Vergara worked red with a slight coral shade.

My second red dress has a slight coral tinge. I love lace ofcourse but at the moment I think bright lace is even better. I'm going to do a post on pop coloured lace soon I think.

I wore this outfit to a 21st on Saturday night.

Sportsgirl lady lace dress $99.95

Worn with chandelier necklace in black $29.95

New Love With Elie Saab

There have been so many beautiful gowns throughout this awards season. A massive stand out has been the gorgeous Mila Kunis who has jumped into the A list with her role in Black Swan. 

Mila Kunis wore this lavender Elie Saab dress to the Oscars last week. It was a nice surprise because it's such a change from her gowns at the Golden Globes and SAG awards (which were still beautiful though)

This dress is from Elie Saabs Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2011 collection.

Mila Kunis had worn one of his gowns before, at the premiere of Black Swan.

This is look 12 from the Spring/Summer 2011 collection

Other stars have also been fans of his dresses for recent events and throughout the award season. 

Scarlett Johansson wore this dress from the same collection to the Golden Globes.

Look 56 Elie Saab Spring/Summer 2011

Halle Berry helped make Elie Saab known back in 2002, when she wore one of his gowns while emotionally accepting her Oscar for best actress. 

After all this time Halle Berry is still wearing his gowns to events. Recently to the 13th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards. What can I say...she still knows how to work it.

 Look 16 from Elie Saab Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2011

Dakota Fanning has recently worn a couple of Elie Saabs dresses to the premieres of her films The Runaways and Eclipse.

 

                      Look 9                         Look 11

Both of these are from Elie Saab Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2010 collection. 

They're both pretty but I don't know why she wore two dresses which are so similar and even look the same at a glance. I'm one who loves neutrals, beading and lace but these are too similar to wear to two different premieres. What do you think?