February 27, 2012

Here we are, at the close of the awards season, in which stylists, designers, managers, PR assistants, and actors perform a complicated series of communiques about style and photography and interior trussing, like the intricate dancing of bees, and as mysterious and inexplicable to those of us who can only look at the end result and marvel that, because of mixed metaphors, some of our finest actors have pollinated this season’s crops. Also, they wore dresses, and though in general the level of success was high, Bafflement is still waiting around every corner, covered in chiffon and ready to strike. Outfit of the Night: Whatever Tilda Swinton was wearing at home. Actual Red-Carpet Outfit of the Night: Anne-Sophie Bion, editor of The Artist, because she said, “You know, people always say that I could wear a garbage bag and look good, and I feel there’s no better testing ground for that than the red carpet of the Academy Awards, so I am just going to get a really long garbage bag, Project Runway it with… Read more »