The Fashion Statement: The Best Dressed Women of 2010
This was the year politician's wives, fashion editors and designers shoved Hollywood (except for Carey Mulligan perhaps) and the music industry aside to become the best dressed women of the year.
Fashion blogs everywhere have been writing about what fashion insiders Japanese Vogue editrix Anna Dello Russo was wearing in addition to their daily chronicles of Lady Gaga. What was French Vogue's Carine Roitfeld wearing front row at Marc Jacobs? What was Elle's style director Kate Lanphear doing in an online campaign for CFDA/Vogue fund finalist Eddie Borgo? Wrote New York Mag's The Cut in July: "Borgo calls Kate, whose regular appearances on street-style blogs have won her an online cult following, the 'epitome of the modern-day punk.' If anyone needed more face time on The City, it's this woman. Then again, her elusiveness is one of the things that makes her so cool." As for Roitfeld (pictured above), who just this week shocked everybody by announcing she's bidding French Vogue adieu, proved that women in their 50s (she's 56) don't have to age.
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We had a few stylish First Ladies to keep our eyes on, of course. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy patriotically favors French designers and has continued to be effortlessly chic despite wearing flats (so as not to be taller than her French president husband, we assume). Michelle Obama also favors American designers and for as many events as she has to be dressed for, has had surprisingly few clunkers. Both ladies channel Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and that's always a good way to go.
But there's a new player in town: When Prince William and long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton announced their engagement, it spawned a fashion frenzy called the Middleton effect. Women around the world scrambled to buy the Issa blue dress she wore to the press conference. And sales of sapphire jewelry inspired by the ring once worn by Princess Diana have shot up 300 percent, according to some reports.
Another Brit, Alexa Chung, set the blogs on fire. Chung recently took home honors at the British Fashion Awards for being a global ambassador for U.K. designers. She designed a collection for Madewell and is set to star in a PBS series on thrift store shopping.
American fashion designer Georgina Chapman showed us how pregnant women should dress.
And, finally, Lady Gaga was on our worst dressed list last week and and she belongs on our best dressed list this week. My issue with Gaga is that she does not have style, she puts on costumes for shock value. But sometimes they're so bad, they're good
But there's a new player in town: When Prince William and long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton announced their engagement, it spawned a fashion frenzy called the Middleton effect. Women around the world scrambled to buy the Issa blue dress she wore to the press conference. And sales of sapphire jewelry inspired by the ring once worn by Princess Diana have shot up 300 percent, according to some reports.
Another Brit, Alexa Chung, set the blogs on fire. Chung recently took home honors at the British Fashion Awards for being a global ambassador for U.K. designers. She designed a collection for Madewell and is set to star in a PBS series on thrift store shopping.
American fashion designer Georgina Chapman showed us how pregnant women should dress.
And, finally, Lady Gaga was on our worst dressed list last week and and she belongs on our best dressed list this week. My issue with Gaga is that she does not have style, she puts on costumes for shock value. But sometimes they're so bad, they're good
