It was hard to miss Claire Danes at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar Party last night in West Hollywood.
It’s no surprise that she chose Valentino – one of the actress’ favourite designers – for the biggest night in Hollywood, but this bright pink colour is not something we’d expect from the actress who tends to favour minimalist looks.
Her Valentino Pre-Fall 2012 gown features sheer, polka-dotted overlay exploding into a tiered, riffled skirt.
This stand-out gown comes dangerously close to looking a bit Barbie princess, but I think the almost-neon pink is a brilliant choice and looks stunning on Claire.
Her styling is flawless, with a slightly messy hairstyle and light pink makeup.
The look is finished with Tiffany & Co. earrings and a Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet.
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It’s a little quirky, a little cute. Overall, a non-starter for me. I agree about the styling. Fresh and fun.
I’m polarized..can’t decide if I hate it or love it.
I’m kinda hating this. Okay not kinda, I do hate this.
This dress is very barbieish, and I don’t feel that it’s right for Claire. She does the minimalist thing so well that this feels completely out of character–not to mention that it’s quite ’80s prom.
I don’t detest the dress, but I do on Calre. It feels way too sccharine and young. I was expecting thsi to have an Elle Fanning moment, like that evne Dakota would have passed it up as being too young.
I also think it’s very unflattering, it makes her egs look short and her torso long. What I get least is the hair, it would have gone great with last year’s bathrobe dress, but not this one!
Is this really Claire Danes? She’s amazing anyway.
i do like the look, but i feel smth is missing, i think if she had added that bowtie that model has on the neckline to her waistline, that would have made it
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Wow, this somehow manages to look both cheap and very expensive. Maybe only expensive due to the event. It’s very Barbie goes to prom in 1985.
Love Claire, but I feel really strongly that as grown women, we have to dress like grown women, and this just does not cut it.
I LOVE this!! Her styling and ‘tude keeps it from being too Barbie-ish.
It just does not look like a luxurious designer dress. Perhaps it’s the fabric? perhaps that color should not be worn in such volume? I’m not sure but it certainly just is not right.
At first glance, I thought this was Clemence Poesy!
She looks like a 5 year old girl who tries her mother’s dress..
On many other people I would have hated the dress…too cutesy and girlish.
But I think Claire has an attitude that allows her to pull this off.
She is too old to be dressing up like a 5 year old stuck in mom’s closet.
I hate this, at least, on Clare. I might have given it a pass on another, younger actress, but on Clare, this is not working for me on any level. This is a rare occasion where a dress has more volume than it did on the runway, and it doesn’t work, either.
Too cute.
To me this reads as a direct reference to the Mollie Ringwald movie Pretty in Pink from the 1980s (link: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i5kw8_0L9kQ/TVrrHURwbJI/AAAAAAAAEeU/t51gEHM_eXw/s400/1.jpg), which I think is supported by the fact that she wore it to the after parties and not the main event. It was her moment to have a bit of fun and get completely out of character and she certainly did that