today’s guest post is from Mallory of Where The Lovely Things are. we share a love of many things, but we really bonded over our shared love of Melvin Udall in As Good as it Gets.
I’m Mallory (I mostly blog here, but also here & here, plus I tweet & pin) & every season I’m compelled to at least glance at every designer’s collection who presents during fashion week. I have no reason to do this (thus why it’s a compulsion). Do I work in fashion? No. At a magazine? Nope. Could I ever hope to buy something from a collection? Ha! Yes, I sometimes blog about my favorites, but I don’t look at the collections because I’m going to blog about them, I blog about them because I spent all that freaking time clicking through each look. I think – “I might as well throw together few posts. Don’t totally waste hours of your life, Mal”.
A week or so ago I lay in some sort of zombie-daze state looking through collection after collection and I realized that I got a little jolt of excitement every time I found an awesome red dress. I realized (or at least I tried to convince myself) that that was why I ended up scrolling through all these fashion fests when I should be sleeping: I’m looking for red dresses. Because I looooooove red dresses.
When I was a little girl and my mother dressed me, red dresses were always prevalent. When I started dressing myself they cropped up just as much. My favorite dresses I ever wore to dances in high school – red. If I’d been invited to the Oscars I’d have worn the color of the carpet. And when I get married someday I may wear white, but only for a little bit (if at all) then it’ll be… yeah – red.
So, for this guest post I thought I’d put together some of my favorite red dresses from the Fall 2012 ready-to-wear collections as well as some of my favorite red dresses from movies (because I love movies as much as I love red dresses). Here we go…
Felder Felder / See by Chloé / Imitation of Christ / Emilia Wickstead
Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna in Inglorious Basterds
Karen Walker / Monique Lhuillier / Jonathan Saunders / Calvin Klein Collection
Alicia Silverstone as Cher in Clueless
Matthew Williamson / Michael Kors / Marchesa
Grace Kelly as Margot in Dial M for Murder
Thakoon / Jonathan Saunders / Michael van der Ham / Christopher Kane
Stockard Channing as Rizzo in Grease
St. John / Tadashi Shoji / Monique Lhuillier / Sachin + Babi
Nicole Kidman as Satine in Moulin Rouge
Sophie Theallet / Monique Lhuillier / Imitation of Christ / Monique Lhuillier
Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei and Jane Russell as Dorothy in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Emilia Wickstead / Reed Krakoff / Jil Sander
Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in (obvs.) Mary Poppins
Finally, I had to include Helen Hunt as Carol in As Good As It Gets because one of the reasons Diana is awesome (other than her amazing blog) is her ability to recognize quotes / references from this movie. I’ve encountered few people who know what I mean when I say “Good times, noodle salad”, so I totally appreciate when I find someone who does. Sadly for Carol the Waitress, Melvin insults her lovely red dress when they go out on their date. But then to make it up to her he tells her “You make me want to be a better man” and she says it’s the best compliment of her life, so it’s all okay. For a few minutes, at least.
