The 2014 British Fashion Awards will go down on December 1st. Something to look forward to, because the British Fashion Council (or whoever organizes this mess) is shooting for the stars! They pretty much included every “hot” name on their “Most Stylish” fan-vote list this year. They’re hoping to get a crazy-awesome turnout, which… I mean, hey, if I was organizing it, I would try to do that too. Just think of all of the people you would want to see on a red carpet, and that’s who got a nomination. Benedict Cumberbatch, Cara Delevingne, Emma Watson, Idris Elba, FKA Twigs (they’re hoping Robert Pattinson comes), Keira Knightley and more. Except… NO Tom Hiddleston. And NO Duchess Kate. Which is funny. Oh, and guess who is a first-time nominee? AMAL CLOONEY. Here’s the full list:
Amal Clooney
Benedict Cumberbatch
Bobby Gillespie
Cara Delevingne
Daniel Sturridge
David Beckham
David Gandy
Douglas Booth
Emma Watson
FKA Twigs
Helen Mirren
Idris Elba
Jamie Hince
Jourdan Dunn
Kate Bush
Kate Moss
Keira Knightley
Ralph Fiennes
Rita Ora
Tinie Tempah
You can vote here. Write-in candidates are welcome too, so all is not lost for Tommy Hiddleston. You have to choose the person who most represents all that is great and good with British style. Who is the best ambassador for British style? From that list? If I’m being honest, it’s probably Emma Watson or Keira Knightley, although neither of them is British-designer-exclusive. It’s definitely not Benedict – that boy can’t dress unless he’s in a tuxedo. Gandy is a good candidate. As is Helen Mirren. I can’t decide!
As for Amal and this recognition of her fashionista ways… it would be great if she came to the awards show with Clooney in tow and just had a sense of fun and whimsy about it, but she probably won’t even turn up. Amal Clooney is just too brilliant, self-confident, funny, charming and perfect to come to a lowly fashion event. *sniff*
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Kate Moss. Always.
WORD.
Emma Watson and Becks in tow.
DUH. Amal Klooney is quite simply the greatest style icon, of all time, by a margin so wide that no style icon could even remotely compare. So put away whatever measuring devices you were using to gauge the stylistic flare of mere mortals like Kate Moss, because The Fashion got reinvented this year; Klooney Styles.
#nodisrecpecttothenapkinholders
Amal Clooney: Fashion Welcoming Ambassador.
You better write in vote for Amal Klooney, Kiddo!
If she wears stilts at the deli counter, she’s a shoe in.
Hello Kitty! You won! It’s like when yoga teachers become Gurus when they marry wealthy celebs. It’s like an instant Aura boost, but the product remains the same. Style osmosis?
Yes, she will bring world peace.
I’m doing a write in vote for QEII
Her hat game this year is the sh*t.
#nodisrespecttobradpitt
That woman can wear the hell out of a brooch, too.
Nobody can beat QEII hat game!
Yes, great idea. Will do this too.
I like her style. It’s not fashion forward but I like it, I can totally relate to it.
Btw if she showed up to the fashion event people would say “oooh look she loves attention, famewhore”, if she didn’t “she is too self entitled”. Whatever she does it’s wrong.
+1
I don’t like the narrative around her. What’s wrong with being smart and accomplished but ALSO into fashion , make up, beauty?
Thanks, @Eleonor. I feel exactly the same way. there’s literally no winning when it comes to being Amal. I felt that she looked happy, relaxed, beautiful and excited her wedding weekend…the way ANY bride would look if every camera was trained on her. I come on here (which i love to do so) and see people cutting into her for being excited on her wedding day. it’s ridiculous.
what’s the alternative? should she be stern, glum-faced and pull a kardashian and refuse to smile just because there are cameras around? as i said, ridiculous.
No winning seriously she married George Clooney and very publicly. Which means no matter your point of view if the marriage is love, PR, business merger, contracted or whatever she wanted to marry him. She also seems to have a decent job that she likes, as she is still doing it. No sympathy for her celebrity faux problems. One day you are the celebrity darling next day the dog. Just the way it is. George is very familiar with it. I am sure if it upsets her, which I doubt, he will help her. I think she will be just fine no matter what happens. I think she won!!!
Good points!
+1. She’s cool, lets not be jelly guys! :PP
If I was a lawyer who wanted to be taken seriously, I would not show up to this event. It’s one thing for someone that I know/worked with,etc said to me ‘You have a great sense of style’, and another for someone to nominate me for a style icon award, on a list full of celebrities i.e. people who are paid to look good, and nothing else. Seriously. The last thing I would want if I was Amal for people to be nominating me for crap like this–at least in the celeb world. It’d be funny if this was a lawyer award–like the razzies in Hollywood.
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Agreed.
At best she should politely decline instead of just ignoring it outright. I think that’s the best route because she’s a lawyer, but her husband is also Clooney. Attending award ceremonies will happen for her. And she will be nominated to try and get Clooney there.
The sooner this is accepted the better off she will be.
And i’m guessing she’s already figured this out. She had her fun and grew tired of it.
Amal has certainly stepped it up post wedding, except for the Mafia Wives outfit, but I think it’s a bit soon.
Personally I don’t like her style at all. I agree that her business style is a lot better than her (awful) casual style. I also wasn’t really a fan of the dresses she wore during her wedding weekend celebrations, especially the very short one with the stiff skirt. Why wear such a short dress when not only is it not fitted, but it’s protruding out… I don’t consider myself a prude but I just found that dress so vulgar!
I don’t think she would have been listed for this award at all if she hadn’t been in the news so much lately, I think the organisers want names on the list that are currently in the headlines.
Agreed!
All in all I loved her trousseau ( do we still
use that chestnut ?) BUT I was baffled at the cream flowered mini. Under normal circumstances I think it is a risky choice
but given she would be clamouring on and
off gondalas and platforms what could she
Possibly have been thinking?? You know some of guests and dockers got an preview
of blushing brides bush!!
She thinks her spindly legs are prettier than they are. She’s also a bit past the age for wearing micro mini dresses.
Is she even British?
Both her parents are from Lebanon and Amal was born there, but the family moved to London when she was two. I think she has both British and Lebanese nationality.
Dual citizenship: Lebanon (her birth place) and British (parents moved to UK when she was 2yrs old)
i like Primal Scream and Jesus Mary Chain but I would never think Bobby Gillespie as a style icon. It you like the style of Frau Farbissina of Austin Powers then maybe.
Better than Duchess Flying Hems or her Baby Boehner Tangerine sister… i’ll take it!
You win the internet today.
HAHAHAHAHA
LOL……….
Zing!!! LOL!
Lol. The award should be given to Klooney who dresses her. Hello kitty and skulls outfit wouldn’t get a nomination.
Exactly! This list is proof positive that these “awards” are one big PR stunt. If she wins Amal needs to give a big shout out to her unofficial stylist/makeover consultant Anna Wintour…
Mullet shorty short dresses!! Nah!! Her work outfits are good though.
None of them – I am the most fashionable Brit. Sitting in my living room, wearing shorts and tank top while eating junk food and reading Celebitchy.
Ha!
People need to cut it with the Amal hate. WTF. What exactly has she done that is so criminal?
Out-famewhored Hilaria Baldwin, the previous title holder for “Overexposed Actor’s Wife.”
omg i totally forgot about her already, ha!
I think other people must have a different definition of hate than I have. This all seems very tongue and cheek to me. Let’s not forget, it all started with the over the top pap friendly Clooney produced wedding too. It’s a free world and its their money and they are welcome to the kind of wedding they want. Still when you make it that public & extravagant and several party celebrations you get a lot of comments, and most of these comments are really funny.
My vote for most fashionable is Idris Elba, just because I want to look at him more.
It is just tongue in cheek joking. I don’t think anyone here actually hates her.
I do hate ceramic cockatoos though. With a passion.
And spinach.
I hate anything I loathe but require due to lack of alternatives
drinking fountains…
a male gyno…
There’s nothing here that can be read as hateful. I don’t understand how that could be a conclusion after reading these comments. More than half are praise and much of the rest is indirect teasing of these types of lists and motivations behind nominating.
Are we supposed to forget those pre-wedding outfits? Sure, ok, I’ll play along. “Yes, Amal is the bestest dressed in all of Britain.” Her fashion game has been spot on post-wedding. Whoever her stylist is deserves the award.
Anyway, on a serious note I am happy for both of them and I hope they are happy together. But I worry, given the nature of the press (mainstream and tabloid) I wonder whether George and Amal are going to be as pleased about courting all this attention say a year or so from now. Cause as we’ve all seen time and time again, the press loves to build celebs up, crown them king/queen for a while and then revel in tearing them down. Just a whiff of impropriety on her side (or her family’s side), no evidence needed of course, and the next thing you know Bill O’Reilly and Faux News will be attacking her with some trumped up accusation – we all know how much Bill loves George. And that’s just one scenario.
So yeah, I sincerely wish them well cause I think they’re going to need it.
I guess it’s Amalnesia.She was dressing like a hot mess until about six weeks ago.
Very true, she wore some ghastly outfits during the dating period. I’ll never forget the short-shorts and the sparkly skull top. Her mom & sister also were papped in some hideous outfits. So yeah, agree that her stylist is the one that deserves an award. Or a big paycheck and a sincere thank you! I’ve always heard that George is good to his employees.
No Eddie redmayne?
I love that dress, and I usually don’t care for white dresses.
I like it too, but that is the worst picture of it. It has a no matter what you do wrinkled look to it. I think her work style is impeccable, casual style immature and quirky -(sometimes good quirky sometimes bad) and evening/dressy wear hit or miss to me. So no for fashion award, which is fine as it seems like a silly award for a barrister anyway.
The wrinkles don’t bother me, but I agree with your comments about her style and also that a fashion award is silly for a barrister.
Not with that rosaceatic blush application!
I disagree with you Kaiser, I bet she shows up for all the attention, because she is a style Icon and is enjoying the attention. It is whether George shows up, because he never escorted his girlfriends to any of their events in the past. If it is not George, it will be her mother in tow.
I agree 🙂
Hmmm thanks for the gratuitous Idris pix. made my crap morning worthwhile.
It appears to me that some money has greased some palms. This whole marriage hoopla stinks to high heaven. I hope Amal is getting all that she contracted for but I, for one, am not buying what she and George are selling.
Idris and Tinie Tempah have style in bucketloads, And a list that omits Tilda is a fail.
Agree re Tilda 1000%.
She’s so unconventional with such odd style, but it works! If the list doesn’t had Tilda it can’t be taken seriously.
Tilda = Style. She owns it.
Yes she is smart but there are lots of beautiful smart women all over but if she wasn’t with Clooney she wouldn’t be wearing her recent attire as people who know her acknowledged her style changed over the past few months left to her own devices not sure she’d be on the list. She won’t beat Kate Moss in my books effortless style.
This ‘award’ and the increasing complaints that “Amal can’t win” are grating beyond belief. Why should there “literally” be any winning for Amal? The truth is that, unlike fake awards, public perception can’t be won it must be earned. And, as I have seen it, Amal comes across as being smug and famewhore-y in spades and her client list of terrorists and human rights abusers is hardly more endearing. Likewise, the idea that any bride would love a media spectacle wedding stretches credulity beyond belief.
If Amal does things that come across as more grounded and well intentioned than the above in the future, then she may earn some public respect, but the broad stroke suggestion that she should just win something without exhibiting actual consistent merit — like this award — makes it seem like Amal’s PR strategy is about as laser-focused upon fame and intellectually overrated as she has certainly appeared to be thus far.
Very solid comment, and so true. I’m also wondering, how her constant display of insanely expensive outfits, and her attention-loving ways, are perceived by her peers/collegues. She didn’t take a ‘real’ job when it was offered (UN commission to the Lebanon), and instead went to Greece. Her boss confirmed they considered her to be an asset for publicity for the case.
+1,000
Artcollector +10,000
Well said.
I’m confused if this award for British fashion is really more about style. I’m no expert, but for me fashion is more about putting clothes on the body. With style, the clothes mix with a kind of joie de vivre and result in something more. One example of style that I’ll always remember is a french teacher who was French. She could wear a scarf in a way that it became more than a scarf. Amal, in my opinion, is someone who wears fashion; I don’t see the style piece.
Is there a Most Self-absorbed List? ‘Cause I gotta say, if I were packaging myself or allowing others to package me as Mrs. Brilliant Human-rightsy, I’d make damn sure that I established or at least was part of some larger endeavor or trust that actually promoted human rights — meaning things that are essential to human dignity and without which an unacceptable percentage of the world population is forced to live.. And I’d do it well before the marriage.
Not that I wouldn’t rock some serious style while doing it. I sure as hell would. But I’m just sayin’ — this latest “honor,” in the continuing absence of anything more substantive, seriously bugs. Parading around Athens in pursuit of pilfered treasures is fine. But it’s George’s deal, really. I just don’t sense from her any real interest in anything other than fame and whatever else she and her family can glean from her harpooning of the ultimate whale.
Disclaimer: I’m a licensed attorney and of Lebanese extraction. So yeah. This bugs.
To follow up on comments by Siri, Artcollector and Nimbolicious. I thought about Amal yesterday when I heard about the execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari in Iran. She was a woman executed for killing a man who attempted to rape her. Apparently, he was a member of the State security police in Iran. If Amal was representing folks like her and not wealthy Julian Assange or Kadafi’s former henchman etc, she really would deserve the notoriety that she is getting. What she is, is hyperbole; a product of George Clooney’s marketing team. It’s really outrageous that a man who purports to be a humanitarian has resorted to this kind of tactic to further some personal aim. As for Amal, I don’t respect her at all.
I don’t respect her either,some of her client list is appalling.
Well said.
I don’t particularly like some of her client list, however, I respect that she is representing them as I believe in a just judicial system. Which means to me that even the lowest criminals deserve fair representation. My problem with Amal is they present her as the human rights lawyer defending the downtrodden instead of defending Assange, Kaddafi’s men, and Enron. She needs to own who she really is, and defend her profession and the system. By the comments on here it is easy to see it is not as easy a sell and the PR is easier with the other.
This is exactly what I meant in my earlier post (#13).
TBH, I have largely stayed away from the George/Amal shenanigans but the little I have seen makes me wonder. Now I am not going to question the sincerity of their commitment and the nature of their marriage – that’s between them. As for Amal, I think it’s fine that she is comfortable with the media since I assume at some point in the future she will be on a red carpet or two (or 1,000) but there is a difference between having a comfort with it compared to seeking it out.
But the level of media scrutiny – much of it courted and indulged by George and Amal – is troubling.
Once people stop fawning over her hair and “style” – give it a year or two, it’s really only a matter of time – and start paying closer attention to her much touted brilliant career, the adoring media (mainstream and tabloid) may not be quite so, well … adoring.
And while ITA with noway that all people should have legal defense, I also can see how this can be a tricky PR balancing act.
Will that trouble George and Amal? Maybe, maybe not. But George has always been a darling of the press (O’Reilly not included) so is he prepared for the savage attacks they can launch. Not only digging into his and Amal’s past but the past of their friends, family (extended family included) and business associates?
We’ve seen how George reacts in his disputes with Fabio, the Wynn owner, and with the DM. George is not one to stay in his little bubble of tranquility.
And that does not even consider George’s drinking and overall health (back).
So yeah, all the luck to them because I suspect that in a few years – may be a bit longer given George is a media darling but eventually – this full-court press strategy may start to burn.
anyway, back to limiting the George/Amal news.
Oh, so very well said, all!