These are photos of Emma Watson at a London screening of her new film, The Perks of Being A Wallflower, which was held at the Mayfair Hotel. Sigh… I was going to say something nice about the pants, but really… I can’t. I took a close look at them, and the pants aren’t all that, and they’re part of an ill-conceived ensemble. But I’ll say a few nice things: from the bust up, this is maybe the prettiest Emma has ever looked. Good makeup, good hair, simple jewelry, and overall, she’s just very cute and pretty. I don’t even mind that little sausage curl-bangs thing. It seems romantic rather than trashy.
As for the dress-and-pants ensemble… it’s Dior. Is it just me, or has Dior really gone drastically downhill since Galliano was forced out? I’m not saying they didn’t have every right to force John Galliano out – they did, and I’m glad he’s gone. But surely the House of Dior can come up with something better than this, right? If she was just wearing the dress by itself, without the pants… it would have been too sweet. But when you put the dress with those ill-conceived and badly cut pants, it’s just awful. Sidenote: On second look, the pants are okay in profile. But the front view is rough.
In other news, while she was doing press for Perks in the UK, she got the question about 50 Shades of Grey. Entertainment journalists are pretty much asking every actor and actress under the age of 35 if they would consider playing Christian Grey, the beautiful, tragic sadist, or Anastasia Steele, the beautiful dumbass who weeps hysterically whenever you spank her. So Emma was asked if she would consider playing Anastasia, and she said, “The thing is I haven’t read any of the book because I haven’t read a script so it’s quite difficult to know what I’m turning down potentially but I hear it’s quite raunchy. I mean if there’s interesting character development and there’s an interesting story then I would consider it – but I haven’t been offered anything.” Let’s keep it that way, Emma. They wouldn’t offer her the part, right? Her image is way too “clean” and proper. Just like Anastasia before she met Christian Grey. *rips bodice*
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Her face does look great. She’s so pretty! But yeah- the outfit is terrible.
I’m just going to be in denial and say that she got rash on her legs, hence the pants…
“I mean if there’s interesting character development and there’s an interesting story ”
rules out fifty shades of grey.
i would actually be glad if a female artist doesnt try to go all sexual to try to convince us she is a woman. we have that so much in the music industry.
if emma does her thing with showing us she has brains, more power to it.
Seriously. I was forced to read it for book group.
50 shades of gray is a TERRIBLE book. By far and away the worst book I’ve ever read. Not because of the ‘raunchy’ content (although its raunchy in a 18 year olds fantasy kind of way. Ana can’t even refer to her lady bit as anything but ‘down there’), but because the writing is crap. It started out online as twilight fan fiction and it reads that way. The S&M stuff is totally wrong and boring, and both characters are terrible. One is a moron and the other a abusive moron.
I could go on and on, but there’s a goodreads review that sums it up much more cleverly than I can. (and saved me from being forced to read the rest of them-our book group almost disbanded over this crap)
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340987215
Yay great link +1000
Thanks for the link. For a long time all the hype convinced me that I was the only one who thought Fifty Shades wasn’t that shocking and the writing was truly awful. I have a friend who is an intelligent feminist and she raves to anyone who will listen about about how great Fifty Shades is and what wonderful characters Ana and Christian are–go figure. Thanks to CB I know I’m not alone!!
OMG! I refuse to read that drivel…and that link just made my day!
I read all three books and I love each one especially the 2nd one. Emma would be perfect playing the role of Ana in the movie. Laters!
This would have been cute sans pants. A cute little black cocktail dress. I’m not crazy about her hair but her makeup is perfection here.
WHY PANTS WHY
I love it! Looks really good. She’s so cute.
I love it, too. This girl can wear anything as far as I’m concerned.
I actually like the dress-pants-combination!! 🙂 I guess we’re the only ones though.
I like it, too. I do think she should have had the pants hemmed a littttle bit more, but I still like it. And I love her hair like that!
Me too!! Love this outfit!
I like it too! It reminds me of something Bianca Jagger would have worn in the 70s. Emma is young and adorable and this is the perfect time for a girl like her to take chances with fashion.
Love it. Entire thing is so cute.
I L.O.V.E. it, too!
The pants add a bit of sophistication to what would be a sweet little black dress. I think it’s edgy but age appropriate. She looks like a grown up doll.
I was thinking the same thing – she looks amazing! Beautiful as always, and the outfit is different and cute, and she totally pulls it off. Great simple jewelry too.
Just get those pants off.
This is why thrown together black-on-black pieces don’t work. The colors are off. Or maybe the mismatched textures make it look that way. Either way, those are granny slacks with a girlie dress. Bad call.
The dress is cute, and I bet those pants would look great with something else, but together? Hhhmmmm not so much. A shame she wore them together, could have gotten two outfits out of this one.
Was that ensemble supposed to be edgy or a new trend??? Or could it be that she just doesn’t want a dress malfunction happening at the red carpet like the previous one?
http://celebrities.ninemsn.com.au/?blogentryid=433760&showcomments=true
as usual: BLAND.
The problem is not the outfit it’s HER, she cannot bring a spark to save her life.
Imagine the same outfit on… let’s say evan rachel wood… it could totally be amazing, but you have to have the quality to amaze in the first time…it is blatant that it’s not the case with miss Bland-son
on the Galliano thing, I know I would be grilled but I desagree, they shouldn’t kick him like they did, the video was obviously a setup, everyone in the marais (the neighboor were he lived in Paris and were the video was made) knew he was an alcoholic, not just a drunk, a very well-known alcoholic, there was a lot of incidents prior to the video, but clearly some people tried to make a buck off his misery, with teasing him and provoking him, if you saw the video you can see he said what he said to provoke, it was unfortunate but people that deep down under the unflence make rarely fortunate things…
Maison Dior jumped on the occasion and putted the incident in the medias, so their would be not only no more possibility for him to escape being fire, but the CEO of Dior made it sure that there would be no possiility for him to find work anymore.Ever.
Anyway they ARE going downhill since his departure;
back to Emma: super dull! I can’t wait for her to desappear into the limbs of the anonimity (she is obviously frightned by this untnable idea!)LOL
I disagree about Galliano – I think Dior were completely in the right to chuck him. Just because he’s a drunk doesn’t mean that he should be excused. He’s just more likely to open his mouth at the wrong time and get called out for it. And he did. Good riddance, I say.
I do however agree with you about Emma’s blandness.
“Just because he’s a drunk doesn’t mean that he should be excused”.
I undestand your point, but as I underligned he was not *just* drunk, he was an alcoholic (besides apparently being hooked on drugs) and addicts make awful things, I think it is low from Maison Dior not to have fire him but to have taken every precaution to be sure he will not work again.
You know a lot, a lot of his jewish friends and jewish people in the industry came openly to his rescue saying they are sure he is not antisemitic, and that Maison Dior played him to get rid on him because everybody in Fashion knew he was an addict since his partner passed 5 years ago.
The sad thing is to use people’s addictions to destroy them for ever.
Since then I have not buy even a single lipstick from Dior…
I agree on all accounts.
Would be great without the pants and maybe a little longer. Terrible together. What a great girl. I just saw her on Kelly and Michael. She was so humble, sweet and interesting. Also, she never been in any trouble!
It’s a new and interesting look – just the right amount of whimsy with the right amount edge – good for Emma for trying new things!
That’s the biggest peplum I’ve ever seen!!
Dear Emma….. It’s okay to say no to ur stylist!
Nope, doesn’t work…… and hopefully this doesn’t become popular in my lifetime…
She’s adorable, but that hair is awful.
Seriously! I didn’t even make it to the outfit because I was so distracted by that terrible hair. What is that miserable forehead curl? It looks like the hair I wore to formal in 7th grade. In 1997.
IKR. It looks kinda greasy too.
I recently lived in the UK. They do have a peculiar fondness for wearing dresses over pants, those British women.
That is no peplum, that is a dress and dresses look awful with pants. Period. Plus they’re two different shades of black. Awful.
I love it!!
Hate the hair – hate the necklace – hate the outfit. And stand up straight girl!
This is actually a runway piece from the Christian Dior couture line, and at first it struck me as awkward and weird, but… it’s growing on me. I always end up liking everything she wears though.
I kinda like it! I’m not a fan of my legs so I often combine pants or tights with dresses. When it’s done right, I like the look, and I think she’s done it right here. There have been bigger fashion crimes.
She looks so so so cute!!
Hate the pants tho..
I love her whole look, including the pants. I like her style. She knows what looks good on her and she can pull of looks that many others cannot.
She should have just worn the dress by itself.