Well, this is not coming through with tone I originally intended, but the Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year Awards were last night in London, so let’s celebrate women even as we’re being forcibly reminded how many people hate women.
This year’s honorees include Victoria Beckham, who attended the gala with her daughter, Harper Seven, Sophie Turner, Ambika Mod, and Olympian Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Victoria showed up in fancy pajamas of her own design; Sophie Turner wore a very fun Louis Vuitton mini dress; Ambika Mod wore a gorgeous shade of blue shaped into a fairly unflattering dress by JW Anderson, but at least it has pockets; and Katarina Johnson-Thompson would have been better served if that dress was a different color. Mixed results for the honorees on the black carpet.
Attendees included Nicola Coughlan in a black suit by Dior. The veil helps elevate the look, and I like her manicure and lipstick coordinating with her Artists4Ceasefire pin, but overall, it’s not the most adventurous look from Nicola. It’s a nice look, if not jaw-dropping.
Moving the needle a little more is Jodie Comer with a drop-dead sexy blowout and sparkly dress by 16Arlington. It’s a little bit mod with the winged eyeliner in a way that REALLY suits her. They made the right call in The Bikeriders because she was playing a working-class gal from the south side of Chicago, and she LOOKED like a working-class gal from the south side of Chicago, but someone needs to cast Comer in a glam Sixties-era project PRONTO. She is MADE for mod.
Golda Rosheuvel wore something that sort of looks like what a Hogwarts professor would wear in their downtime, and Dame Harriet Walter showed up in a GREAT sparkly gown, and on the menswear side, Brian Cox showed up in a wrinkled velvet tux jacket, but I doubt anyone had the balls to point it out to his face. He’s ingrained in our collective memory as Logan Roy now. I can’t even hear a McDonald’s commercial without feeling like Logan Roy is threatening me into eating French fries. I should probably go watch a compilation of Logan Roy yelling just to inoculate myself for the next few years of shouty angry men dominating public life.
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