Today we are going to push the limits of both celebrity and style. In the same week, I’ve received requests for a look from a reality TV show and for the most Oscar-nominated person in the world. This is the beautiful contradiction of celebrity!
Friend Date or Gossip Genie dream?
OK back in October I wrote about the leak about Meryl Streep’s marriage and half-jokingly (but deep down I was being sincere!) Gossip Genied Meryl Streep and Martin Short. I’m obviously not very creative because the rest of the internet is wishing for the same thing. The two hottest celebrity couples right now are a Super Bowl winning football player and an AAA+++ list pop star and septuagenarians Martin Short and Meryl Streep. I love it.
But look, we don’t know if this is a friend date or a date-date. Marty has a very wide social circle in Los Angeles (he wrote about it in his memoir). What we do know is the pink undershirt with red blazer? Chic. There are always rules about mixing colours that are old-fashioned, like don’t mix pink and red, don’t mix dark blue and black and don’t mix brown and black. Those rules are wrong.
Her outfit is not that easy to source but I’m quite sure the shoes are these ones by Roger Vivier (sorry, they are sold out at Saks) and her bag looks like the Celine Caba Phantom. Now a note about the bag: if you are looking for a designer bag right now, I would strongly suggest perusing the resellers. There’s loads of new-with-tags or like-new bags for sale from Celine, Gucci etc. because everyone is feeling the pinch and designer bags are like boats. It’s the first thing people want to unload when money gets tight.
The jacket was much harder to find. I suspect it’s Armani but can’t 100% confirm. Here’s why: it has a single breast pocket but there’re no pockets on the lower half. It’s single breasted with three black buttons. It is probably wool, maybe cashmere. This eliminates a lot of lookalikes from Akris, Escada and St. John. (We also have to take into consideration that this could be 20 years old and she pulled it from her closet.) There’s also the possibility that she took a piece of her work home: it also looks a lot like this jacket she wore in the table read scene in Only Murders in the Building. I pulled it up yesterday and found it online.
So that’s my report on her outfit. (No but seriously, do we think they are dating????)
These are the best days of our lives…
Some fans are annoyed with Vanderpump Rules because it’s not what it was last year. Not to gatekeep reality TV, but this is the established cycle of these shows. After a bonkers season there needs to be time to decompress and reflect on what the f-ck has happened. That’s the kind of season this is. In sports I believe they call this a “rebuilding” season. Katie Maloney is an OG cast member and has gone from vilified as the “crazy” Tequila Katie and “mean” wife of Tom Schwartz to the grown up in the room. She’s a chic divorcée who dumped the man-child and dares to have short hair in the land of aggressive extensions. Katie’s looks have always been a target because she’s not as thin as people want and her style is not bodycon (or at the very least, LA boho). I enjoy her style and what’s more important, she does too. She dresses like a regular (if stylish) person and that’s probably why I’ve gotten more than one request for her.
The latest was a request for this denim bustier, worn to a pool party. It’s by Micas and unfortunately very limited sizing because for once, the price is right!
Luckily, there’s an abundance of really cute denim bustiers from AGolde, Dynamite, Revolve and Lovers & Friends.
