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Claire Danes attended the Emmys last night as a presenter (she won last year in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie category for her role in Temple Grandin), and I’ve got mixed feelings about her look for the evening. She wore a metallic blue Oscar De La Renta column dress, which I believe was intended to be edgier than all of the monochrome and minimalistic dresses that she has favored in the past. I like that she’s mixing it up a bit, and I love the deep blues of the dress itself. It also looks a lot better against the HBO backdrop than against the standard-issue Emmy red-carpet wall.
What gives me pause about Claire is her hair and makeup. Kaiser thinks the hair should be a few shades darker, and I agree that she’s just far too blonde and highlighted at this point, but she’s been that way for quite awhile. Claire’s stuck in a bit of a beauty rut, and I’d like to see her try out a cool shade of brunette or, at the very least, go for some rich lowlights instead of defaulting to the Hollywood standard blonde. In terms of makeup, the lipstick is fine, but the eyeliner is applied in far too gratuitous a manner. Again, I think Claire is going for “edgy” here, so that excuses some of this mess.
Sadly, her adorable husband Hugh Dancy was nowhere to be seem. Maybe he had a TIFF hangover and couldn’t handle the sparkle factor of this dress.
Photos courtesy of Fame and WENN
Written by Bedhead
Posted in Claire Danes, Emmys, Fashion
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She is …perfect! Always a fan of hers, she is such a beauty!
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I think she looks gorgeous. The photos where her hair is blowing in the wind look like modeling shots!
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I think she’s beautiful but not here. One of those girls who looks so much better with minimal make-up or none at all – a natural look. And such heavy makeup and a dramatic dress paired with loose hair just looks unfinished, like she chickened out and thought, “Well, I don’t want to overdo it”.
And the dress is a striking choice, but I can’t help thinking it looked better on my Jem And The Holograms doll when I was seven.
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Amazing!
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Somthing stepford looking about her all the time.
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Not so much:)
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She looks good. Also, it’s funny how her hair always looks like it’s being blown by some wind machine (it must be really soft for doing that naturally).
My favourite was Maria Bello though — am waiting for you guys to post her here:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/04VO0kAdfNfg1
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The dress is nice, but did you see her presenting? Why so twitchy??!! If she had jerked her head around one more time, I would’ve thrown something at the tv. Creepy.
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I just can’t get past the pain her boobs must be feeling in that dress.
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Hmmm. I think she just looks good, neither edgy nor severe.
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The dress gives me a headache.
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She looks bizarrely like January Jones in some of these photos here. The dress is wrong for her low-waisted body type.
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Every time I see her, all I can think is “You slutty homewrecker!”
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I like the colors, but I feel like I’ve seen this style on her before.
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Did she have surgery? I would never have recognized her as Claire Danes in any of the pictures. I guess it’s the horrible makeup? Weird…
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Last night all I could think of when I saw her is what large muscular arms she had. I’m not seeing that in these photos though.
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Love the dress and she looks fantastic in these pictures.
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Love the dress and she is wearing the hell out of it.
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I like the color pattern of the dress, It’s very modern, edgy, but still classy. I would have liked to see her in softer warm tones far as eye color and maybe have her hair up, but I think overall she looks good.
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Beautiful dress, but the make-up is all wrong. Ditto for the very blonde hair.
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There’s something about her that I don’t like, like she’s a lesser versionof Gwyneth Paltrow or something.
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I want this dress. I covet this dress. I am going to remember this and when I get married, I’m going to marry in this dress.
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I don’t know much about fashion, but this dress is all kinds of wrong for her. right where it should breathe, tight where it’s unflattering, just awful. Lose the liquid eyeliner.
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That dress hurts my eyes.
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Heavy dark eye make-up ages her; lipstick shade is wrong for her skin shade; dress looks like something I wore – shorter version – in about 1989. Not flattering and I certainly don’t see what’s “edgy” about it.
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She’s caught the Middleton Gaze, I need 10ccs of Red Cornea.
While I like the dress, it does remind me the Arsenio Hall set.
As far as the hair goes: you are a sly one, Mary-Louise.
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I love this dress on her. She’s gorgeous.
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I think she looks beautiful. She really knows how to dress for her body type and size. The eye makeup is a bit much for me, but it doesn’t look bad.
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@Gayle: exactly!
@celebitchy: exactly!
boring bottle blonde is NOT doing her any favors. those harsh raccooned eyes make her look skanky. maybe that’s what she was going for?
yuck to the earrings, too. the dress just looks heavy. a silvery necklace could break up the vast expanse between the ‘coon eyes and the low dress. needs something to bridge and soften that severe distance.
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The dress is a gorgeous color.
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WOW love that dress! The color! The sparkle!
Not so much with the hair and eyes tho…
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i want my hair to be that shade of blonde – its fab. also like her makeup, when i saw picture i thought the dress was ok but her hair and makeup was fab!
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Sorry, but the whole look was a miss for me.
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That’s a really nice dress, she looks good.
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Love her dress and her, but I just wish she would have hiked up the tiddays just a little more. I hate when strapless dresses look like their pulling the girls down instead of up.
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I’m glad she’s looking like herself again. For a while there her face was different..did seem some twinkage was being done. Even the commercial (Latisse) she was in her face didn’t seem natural. Happy her look today is reminiscent.
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Bad and she needs to stop with the blond hair. Its a bad dye job and doesnt go with her coloring at all.
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I like it. complements her well.
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It fits her perfectly. I just don’t like the color
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She looks lovely!
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Stunning !!
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People hate Angelina and Julia R, for the skanky things they have done to other women but what Claire did to Mary Louise Parker outweighs Angie and Julias evilness by a mega ton. I cant effing stand Claire Danes and will never watch her in anything again. She is just washed out looking and her career is hum drum…….GOOD!
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