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I have to admit, I enjoy Vanity Fair’s annual “Best Dressed” list. The list is pretty Goopy – as in, the list is always full of insider-y people that you would never think, “Oh, yes – she’s really killing it with her style.” It’s usually more like “Oh, that person is cool, and I guess you have to give her credit for trying to pull that off.” I think Jessica Chastain is a great example of this – most people don’t really know WHO Jessica is. They’ve seen her in The Help and probably some other films too, but she’s such a great actress and she flies so far under the radar, she doesn’t really have a celebrity profile. And for those of us who were paying attention to her this past awards season, she rarely (if ever) made any “Best Dressed” lists. She’s just a cool person and a talented actress, with hit-or-miss (mostly miss) style.
Anyway, Jessica and Duchess Kate each got a cover… my guess is that they’ll print more Kate covers and everyone will want the Kate cover on the newsstand. No offense to Jessica, but people will probably go, “Huh, Amy Adams?” You can see Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed list here – there’s a big pictorial of mostly red carpet photos. Some others on the list: French actress Lea Seydoux, Jay-Z, Colin and Livia Firth, Diane Kruger, Prince Harry, Stella McCartney (HAHAHAHA), Tom Brady (no Gisele!), Alicia Keys and Eddie Redmayne (whose cheekbones could cut glass). There is no Michael Fassbender, no Benedict Cumberbatch, no Tom Hiddleston. There are also very few American women – I would have expected to see, like, Emma Stone, maybe? Michelle Williams? Viola Davis? Meryl Streep?
As for Duchess Kate… well, I guess. Her style is now an international thing, and while Kate rarely gets it totally wrong, I think she plays it very safe and very conservative most of the time. Part of that is she’s still figuring out what her style is now that she’s a member of the royal family, and she errs on the side of “matronly”. But overall, I find Kate’s style to be much too “precious” – too much lace, too many pastels, too “sweet”. That is, when she’s not wearing skin-tight jeggings that ride up in her duchess crotch.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Fashion, Jessica Chastain, Kate Middleton
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I LOVE Jessica Chastain..
She’s so beautiful and imo, a real lady..
So classy!
I’m glad she made the THE LIST. LOL
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I just can’t warm to Jessica Chastain. She’s a good actress and all, but red carpet wise and interviews etc. she just seems like a bit of a non-entitiy.
I won’t even mention what fool pegged Waity as a best dressed contender. For what, Grandma’s Weekly? (No offence to any Grandma’s on here – I’m thinking of the Miss Marple type ^^)
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I’m not overly-familiar with her fashion choices, so I can’t speak to that, but…I don’t know why I feel bad for thinking she’s so danged dull (in interviews, at least).
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I found it kinda exciting that she actually thought she could get away with claiming to be 5 years younger than she is in this day and age of internet gossip.
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Ugh…Matt Lauer’s on that list
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Yuck! For real???
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Blurg. I agree that he is SO GROSS, but I will say the man’s suits are impeccable. He wears them well. Ashamed to admit it but it’s true…
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I’ve been told I look like Jessica Chastain (pale, red hair), so I will love her till the day she dies and proclaim her as the most beautiful in the land! ; )
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Is that Jessica Chastain in that Tonys photo? Because that dress is truly hideous. It looks like something Chloe Sevigny would wear, and that is not a compliment.
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Jessica Chastain is a hot mess on the red carpet. Lovely woman but bad dresser. Kate is so boring.
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The dress Diane Kruger is wearing is awful!
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Ha! I was just thinking how lovely it is!
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These lists are so stupid.
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I totally agree. What a waste of time.
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I gotta believe Kate Middleton is at the top of their list (actually even on the list at all) for purely obligatory reasons. I’m sorry, but a style icon she is not.
And oddly, she seems to be developing less and less of a personality since the wedding. Swap her with a wax figure at most of her appearances and I’m not sure people would even notice.
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Kate dresses appropriately all the time.
I love Marion Cotillard and Diane K also. They are unique to me.
I do not think best dressed means that everyone should love what they wear, it should mean that they know how to wear the sh$t out of not so ordinary things.
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Yes – Cate Blanchett is another example. I would never choose most of the things she wears, but they somehow work for her and she has her own style.
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I’d agree with that. If you find yourself thinking that only a certain woman could pull something off and you’re looking at her, or that respectably traditional fare would seem alien and forced when seeing a person wearing something totally insane but wear it with such confidence and ease–not just to grab attention or prove some strange point–you’ve got a good candidate. Tilda Swinton races to my mind because she seems to have every single criteron necessary to make something ‘like space alien from beyond the moon’ or ‘The Tall Thin Duke’-chic look truly chic.
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Somewhere Guillaume Canet is strongly agreeing with you! LOL
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Marion Cotillard is his baby mama as Diane K is his ex-wife (and still very good friend with him as she said she turns offently to him for advices and very friendly with Marion to prove that besides being both incredibly beautiful they are both intelligent women and total dolls), he seems to share your taste in women;)
and gosh he has some taste!
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Tom Brady has “There’s Something About Mary” hair in that one photo.
Jessica? Really? I never like what she chooses to wear, and it often just looks bad on her, not fashionable.
Am I the only one who doesn’t see her as some great beauty? She’s certainly pretty, but I’m just not seeing it beyond that. I like her and she’s a good actress though.
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I love Jessica but the only time she has gotten it right was at the Oscars, everything else was a miss.
Kate is the most boring person on earth. There is nothing interesting or memorable about her outfits. This list is an epic fail.
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Alicia Keyes? Good golly. I rarely see her wearing something good. Diane Krueger I get. She’s edgy. So is Chastain. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t.
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“Skin tight jeggings that ride up her duchess crotch”
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
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Hmm, the nude, boob-enhancing dress is quite something. Let’s call that one a risk and a miss.
But the blue dress with the more than a-line flare is pretty cute.
Kate should get an award for best tailored, and most boring. So she’s completely living up to her role as a royal. At least if she gets pregnant the maternity styles may force her to improvise a bit…..
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Duchess Duck-Face best dressed!? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha …. Most hysterical thing … I guess if you shop at Walmart for your designer duds …
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tom brady, seriously even after that very very strange hair at the met. poor poor taste.
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