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My Best Dressed at the 2016 Golden Globes Is …

January 10, 2016 by WendyB

I was browsing 1980s vintage while watching the Golden Globes red carpet, and I had to point out this ruffled Pierre Cardin design to my designing friend Stacy Lomman. Stacy is the one who looked through my closet once and said, “Wow! Even your ruffles have ruffles!”

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If you have about $9,000, you can buy this for me on 1stdibs. Actually, just buy some of my jewelry instead.

I said, “Do you think this has enough ruffles for me?” Stacy said, “Only if you wear a ruffled hat too.”

There were a lot of beautiful dresses on the Globes red carpet tonight, but if you want to win my coveted Best Dressed/Wear What You Want combo award, being beautiful isn’t as important as being eye-catching. Bring your ruffled dress and hat to impress me!

No hat was involved, but I was intrigued by Rooney Mara’s thick, messy braid …

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… and the tattered-looking, ruffled, skin-toned Alexander McQueen gown that made her look washed out in an interesting way.

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Usually “washed out” isn’t a good thing, but it suits Rooney’s Wednesday Addams vibe.

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But I’m pulling a bit of a Steve Harvey here because Rooney is only my first runner-up. She was dramatically out-ruffled by Jane Fonda in her Yves Saint Laurent Couture gown. Jane is the winner!

I didn’t see Jane on the red carpet, but the camera kept going to her at the start of the show.

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Jane’s dress takes real nerve to wear, and not just that “my bosoms might fall out of my dress” kind of nerve. It takes the “a lot of people aren’t going to like this, but IDGAF” nerve that I admire.

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It’s a bonus to wear a dress with a lot of above-the-waist action at an event where attendees are sitting at tables the way they are at the Globes.

By the way, Jane Fonda looked amazing at last year’s Golden Globes too. From now on, I’m going to check for Jane first.

As for trends, mustard/marigold yellow was hot, perhaps influenced by Gigi Hadid’s look at the MTV VMAs last year. Jennifer Lopez was stunning in her caped Giambattista Valli gown.

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America Ferrera wore Jenny Packham.

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Lola Kirke of Mozart in the Jungle got the memo too, and wore Monique Lhuillier.

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But this color will forever make me think of Michelle Williams in Vera Wang at the 2006 Oscars.

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Michelle owns that color the way Jennifer Lopez owns the open-to-the-navel dress and Rihanna owns the totally naked dress.

Speaking of naked, soooo many necks were bare. Where were the necklaces? At least, the necklaces that did show up were chokers and other short statement necklaces. I approve. Jennifer Lopez wore 46.95 carats of Harry Winston around her neck. Olivia Wilde wore vintage Bulgari. And Leslie Mann wore a striking Irene Neuwirth design.

The @IreneNeuwirth choker on Leslie Mann is epic! #globejewelry pic.twitter.com/VZBcx4xy4S

— Cheryl Kremkow (@kremkow) January 11, 2016

I’m going to pretend that everyone was influenced by the pearl, diamond and gold choker I wore to the Gem Awards on Friday.

Working hard to get my pearl choker, turquoise skull ring and Empress Wu dragon earrings into the photo #gemawards #gemawardslive #jewelry #jewellery #highjewelry #earrings #motherofdragons #skullring #pearls #smile #selfie #redlipstick

A photo posted by Wendy Brandes Jewelry PR (@wendybrandesjewelry) on Jan 8, 2016 at 11:40pm PST

After you get done looking at all the Golden Globes celebrity coverage tomorrow and you’ve got nothing else to do to kill time in the office, come back here to see my whole Gem Awards outfit!

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Filed Under: 80s style, awards, awards shows, Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, necklaces, pictures of me

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  1. Catherine says

    January 10, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    I was trying to guess who you would pick. My list was Jane Fonda, Denis O’Hare, Olivia Palermo and Jaimie Alexander. Personally, I like Maura Tierney’s look a lot. The two color dress, the necklace and bracelet. It was slightly grecian slightly Egyptian and slightly art nouveau? Something. I’d like to see that necklace up close. I only disliked her lipstick. Talk about getting washed out.

    • WendyB says

      January 11, 2016 at 2:40 am

      You know my taste well! Sadly, I didn’t see Denis O’Hare till later or I would have included him. Olivia and Jaimie looked great too. And I agree re Maura, I was very excited for her.

      There were a lot of men looking terrific. I thought the Rock looked amazing! I was hoping not to have to give my award to the dudes again, because that’s happened a few times. I was seriously pondering that anyway, until I saw Jane. The camera couldn’t get enough of Jane, and for good reason! She’s seriously an inspiration.

      MrB just told me that long ago, he was working out in a gym and noticed Jane Fonda nearby. He was contemplating a rather heavy weight and she said, “Go for it!” He’s very proud of this story 😀

      • WendyB says

        January 11, 2016 at 9:10 pm

        I meant to say I also thought Zendaya looked great.

  2. Cheryl says

    January 10, 2016 at 11:30 pm

    Jennifer Lawrence, Helen Mirren and the Olivias (Palermo and Wilde) had nice necklaces also. Fingers crossed for the Oscars!

    • WendyB says

      January 11, 2016 at 2:35 am

      Yes, all with the choker/collar look. (I like that look a lot.) It was that style or nothing!

  3. Kristy says

    January 11, 2016 at 10:07 am

    it is absolutely insane to me that that Michelle Williams look was from 10 years ago! I was a freshman in high school? I don’t remember being that young!

    • WendyB says

      January 11, 2016 at 11:42 am

      Wow, you can remember your freshman year of high school. My memory doesn’t go that far back. LOL.

  4. stacy says

    January 14, 2016 at 3:08 pm

    You are, forever, the ruffle queen!

    Lola has no shoes??

    • WendyB says

      January 14, 2016 at 3:17 pm

      OMG, it’s true, you can’t see a shoe on her! :-O

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