Here are some photos from last night’s New York Fashion Week kick-off event, The 2013 Style Awards, which were very poorly attended. It was like a who’s who of C-listers. Jesse Matcalfe was there. Exactly. That’s pretty much all you need to know. As Bedhead discussed earlier this week, Kate Upton was named this year’s “Model of the Year”. So Upton was at the event and she was seriously the biggest name. Poor Kate.
Kate wore this Altuzarra ‘Walker’ dress which, according to RCFA, is a “fitted jersey v-neck three-quarter-sleeve dress with a gunmetal-tone asymmetrical zip and a mesh panel in the skirt.” You know what? I don’t really have a problem with this at all. It’s a cute LBD. My only issue is that Kate needs better support for her girls – they look kind of saggy in this dress, but I suspect that’s because Kate needs better “foundation garments”. Oh, and she should ditch the shoulder pads.
Bedhead didn’t get to this quote when she was covering Kate’s Vanity Fair cover the other day – Kate told VF: “I’m not going to name names, but one agency told me, ‘You’re too American, and everybody knows American women are lazy.’ I was so offended! I’ve never been so offended! I was like, ‘You know that you’re in America, right?’ And it wasn’t ‘American models’—it was ‘American women are lazy,’ period! I feel like a lot of women would disagree with that. A lot!” Kate was told by an agency IN AMERICA that all American women are lazy? Yikes.
More photos from the event… a newly shaved Joe Manganiello was there. He looks weird without a beard.
Rachel Zoe (and Rodger). She just confirmed her second pregnancy too. Does she look pregnant at all?
Maria Sharpova in Preen. Pretty.
Jessica Pare in Altuzarra Fall 2013. It looks dated, right? Like something from the ‘80s.
Nicole Richie in Antonio Berardi – what’s with all the velvet this early in the autumn? Anyway, I hate this – it looks like a costume.
Lily Aldridge in a great little Louis Vuitton dress, but look at her shoes!! Yikes.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Wow, Christie Brinkley. Wow. Just, Wow.
Those are all good wows, by the way.
Seriously, pretty much everyone looks great. How often does THAT happen?
She looks fantastic.
Please, Upton…don’t smile. In fact, only breath through you mouth.
Joe is SMOKING.
Nicole looks gorgeous and happening!!
I love Lily’s shoes!!!
Nev, agreed on all counts! Nicole pushes it and I love it. Lilly’s shoes are PERFECT for the dress. And JOE looks Hamm-tastic.
Kate’s dress just does not fit well.
Agreed. She doesn’t have proper breast support and her midsection looks weird. Her midsection is not naturally defined, but I’m sure Spanx should help.
If you see Kate in a bikini her whole mid-section looks like a rectangular box. You can see it in the top photo.
Her waist dips in right under her breasts. I think she must be very high waisted.
And her hips are very small compared to her torso.
Yes, thank you!! I have no idea how can she be the “hottest” bikini model or whatever they were saying about her…..her body looks so weird in a bikini….and there are plenty of models to compare her to so she is a mystery to me….
I think Nicole looks good. She’s pulling off that outfit somehow.
Lily Aldridge’s shoes make me so angry. That dress looks awesome on her, why ruin it with white elf shoes????
in second photo, she looks pregnant.
Is Joe Manganiello wearing…..a glittery scarf as a shirt underneath a vest? Lordy what a douche.
Yes^^
Her dress is just o.k. – it looks kinda cheap and ITA – she needs a waaaaaaay better bra.
I am sorry but Joe Mange Jello is so not attractive to me.
I would trade faces with Kate any day of the week but her body does nothing for me!
I think it’s all due to the dress. The fit is so wrong that it makes her look swollen and constipated in the belly area.
I think it’s more due to the fact that she has a weird shaped torso that’s bigger than her hips. Lovely face, though.
You know, I just cannot be mad with this swing back to a healthier looking woman. It may still be unattainable and they’re really still pretty slim, but Kate Upton just looks so regular. I enjoy that.
I love Rachel’s dress. Beautiful.
It’s pretty, but it’s too long. Everything Rachel Zoe wears is dragging on the ground;I’d hate to see her cleaning bills. I’m surprised she’s not on the ground half of the time from tripping on her dresses and pants.
I think everyone looks wonderful for a change of pace. And really Nicole looks more 80’s then anyone else. But again they all look great.
I agree… Everyone looks pretty good! Kate needs a better bra, but she looks beautiful. I don’t know about Rachel Zoe? Does anyone think she weighs more than 80 lbs?
Excuse me? American women are lazy, really? As we work, raise families (many times as single parents), run a household which entails cooking, cleaning, child rearing, marketing, laundry, taking care of elderly family members etc. Most of the time there isn’t enough hours in the day for me to get everything done.
Tired of America bashing, at home and abroad. That a domestic agency said that to her is pathetic. We are f***ing fabulous and the world knows it despite what they say. If it weren’t true they wouldn’t be flocking to come live here.
There are great and less great people in every country. And women do the things you mentioned in every country.
To be honest, Americans tend to be much more ignorant towards other countries than vice versa. In pretty much every movie I saw, a woman with my accent is a prostitute/ war refugee / daughter of a mobster / butch nanny named Olga. And we are all from Russia. Anything east of Germany is Russia.
No need to get agitated. Peace and love, people.
To try to label an entire country’s populus as “ignorant” because the idiots in Hollywood make movies depicting foreigners in a certain light is, in itself, pretty damn ignorant.
Err, women with Russian and German accents play the prostitute/mail order wife in movies from EVERY country, not just America.
Same thing with men playing the villain. It’s a worldwide stereotype, not just America. Stop saying it is.
I was giving an example. I met quite a lot of American tourists, and while some of them have been lovely, a lot of them have been, well, maybe not ignorant but tragically uninformed. From astonishment when they found out that we have electricity, wondering if we pasteurize milk to commenting on people i n front of them because they assume we don’t speak English. As I said, not all Americans were like that, but a lot were.
@Bubbles-so some Americans asked if you pasteurized milk and that automatically makes them “tragically uninformed”?
Look, instead of condemning people for asking innocent questions or worse yet, forming stereotypes based on a few Americans, maybe you should kindly inform and educate?
You know, kind of like how we’re kindly informing and educating you that your opinion of Americans is entirely unfair.
As far as some Americans speaking English and assuming that others don’t understand what they’re saying, well, I hate to break it to you but I live in a big city and I hear Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese people speaking their native language all the time and while I often can understand what the Spanish and French people are saying (and no, it ISN’T always nice), I still just assume that they’re speaking their native language, which is pretty natural if you think about it.
As someone who has traveled all over the world, I can say without a doubt that ignorant, rude people are NOT exclusive to the US. Maybe that doesn’t jive with the prevailing stereotype of Americans, but it’s the truth.
I have to say, while the stereotypes in movies do bother me, the majority of American tourists I have met were lovely.
I think what Bubbles meant to assert is that in general Americans tend to be ignorant about foreign affairs. Are they less intelligent? No. But are they less aware about the world? Yes. They live in the bubble of “we’re the center of the world” and don’t bother learning about the rest of the world. In the rest of the world, even countries where illiteracy is high, people follow global news channels (BBC World, Al-Jazeera, CNN International) and discuss current foreign affairs on a daily basis since most of these countries are affected by what is happening in the rest of the world. In America, the local news channels and Fox News only focus on America. I think this lack of awareness is changing since we are a warring country and have extended our imperialistic claws to Central Asia and now maybe the Middle-East. So maybe people will bother learning about these countries but I doubt it. Other than the centers of higher education, the common American is so not bothered about the rest of the world.
@Bee-“They live in the bubble of “we’re the center of the world” and don’t bother learning about the rest of the world.”
The US has a population of 314 million people–the equivalent of UK, France, Italy, Spain and the Ukraine combined, so we’re ONE country equal in population to that of 5 EU countries–is it all that surprising that we might be a tad on the insular side?
I think it’s so overly simplistic to maintain that Americans are self-absorbed because that’s our cultural proclivity without taking into consideration the logistic and geographic components that lead to this.
In addition to that, I bet that there are plenty of EUers in the 5 aforementioned countries that could GAF about world events (my family in France comes to mind).
What I know for sure is this: I have very few friends who aren’t aware of what is going on in the world, on a global scale. I think to stereotype all Americans is not only unfair, but not really conducive to helping us grow as a country.
I have met many Americans, and while most of them are nice, the things they do not know tend to amaze me. Some of them didn’t know who Angela Merkel was, some thought Dubai was the capital of Ireland ( yes, that did happen), etc. I have to say, that didn’t happened with Europeans.
Jen – “Err, women with Russian and German accents play the prostitute/mail order wife in movies from EVERY country, not just America.”
WHAT???
Every country???
it can be hard to get unpasteurized dairy in the US and some people really like it and make a point to try to bring some home when they travel. it isnt necessarily a value judgment.
Anyway, I think the agency said “Lazy” as code for “fat”. Which of course make the original statement equally absurd.
If she needs a hot girlfriend…I d be there for her..
Upton has one of the strangest-shaped figures I’ve seen. She is not proportional at all. Brinkley looks gorgeous but what’s up with the tummy bulge?
not cute
i dont know who styles her but it seems like they dont go to a lot of effort to have much stuff that fits her
I absolutely love Lily’s shoes!
Sorry But Kate UPTON is ALRIGHT FROM the WAIST UP cause WAIST DOWN is not so flattering!!!! Kristie Brinkley looks way better and she’s old as Dirt!
and Nicole Richie is an idiot she is not a Fashion Icon
Too late to “unhappened”Kate Upton to people,i don’t know how she became “GQ woman of the year” with that kind of body,it’s so disproportion,just look at the difference between her and Kristi Brinkslys posture and body and she’s probably 3 times her age,so embarrassing for her and she’s kind of lazy not to get rid of that square box in her body,especially for her age so young and supposedly energetic,oh well!
Love Altuzarra. It looks good on her, better than the sexpot stuff I feel like she usually wears.
I hate how the zipper is puckering. Ugly. She has a beautifully shaped body and this dress does nothing for it.
Rachel looks so sickly compared to everyone else, including Nicole (which is saying something!)
So much for that pregnant glow. Her weight is horrific looking. I am glad that there seems to be more healthier, although still slim, bodies represented, and it certainly seems to put it in perspective when juxtaposed against Rachel’s emancipated and sallow looks.
Blech…
You mean she didn’t get this dress at Forever 21?