And the Oscar goes to…
While many wondered today if Natalie Portman would win best actress, others wondered if she’d “accentuate her growing baby bump in a skintight Herve Leger bandage dress.” (Oscars yahoo.com) With the best and worst of Oscar fashion flooding the TV and Internet today, I wonder what themes might emerge from an examination of this fashion commentary.
In these fashion broadcasts/articles, women are consistently chastised for not “dressing their age,” for being “dowdy,” or looking “frumpy.” Men, on the other hand, are often called “messy” or “too casual” when they violate seemingly similar fashion norms. Perhaps further analysis into this commentary could shed light into what it is that makes a celebrity (or their fashion) worthy of a glam cam head-to-toe scan (Red Carpet Eonline) or brings fashion critics to state that an actress “deserved to be locked up for her ridiculous look.” (Spirit Awards allvoices.com)
