{"id":9437,"date":"2011-02-08T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=9437"},"modified":"2019-07-14T21:20:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T01:20:25","slug":"wear-what-you-want-icon-helena-bonham-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/wear-what-you-want-icon-helena-bonham-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wear What You Want\u2122&#8221; Icon: Helena Bonham Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I laughed out loud &#8212; in delight! &#8212; when I saw actress Helena Bonham Carter&#8217;s wild hair, exposed tulle and, especially, her mismatched shoes at the Golden Globes in January.<\/p>\n<p><center><a id='JlJhDORoTMl3qyI2_I2hTQ' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/112873678' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'JlJhDORoTMl3qyI2_I2hTQ',sig:'_j3GOjg5Eks70E_bZVkBWdbJwKddUFjFAQ9th5Dpiyc=',w:'406px',h:'594px',items:'112873678',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Would I wear this outfit? No. Do I love a woman whose outfits scream, &#8220;Fuck you, fashion police!&#8221;? Hell, yeah!<\/p>\n<p>I realized Helena had to be my first <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/frequently-asked-questions\/#13\" target=\"_blank\">Wear What You Want\u2122<\/a> icon when I read an interview she did with <a href=\"http:\/\/stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com\/2011\/01\/26\/helena-bonham-carter-why-i-break-all-the-fashion-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a> last month:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong,&#8221; <\/em>she told People<em>. &#8220;But fashion is all about having fun. I think  fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what  one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the  world won\u2019t crumble.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She went on to say, &#8220;Why not wear mismatching shoes? Who says we can\u2019t?&#8221; and, when asked what she will wear to the Oscars on February 27, she laughed and said, &#8220;Maybe I will wear the exact same [Vivienne Westwood] dress I wore at  the Golden Globes but with matching shoes &#8230; Or put the shoes on my head!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/film\/oscars\/8310490\/Helena-Bonham-Carter-Ill-be-a-walking-catastrophe.html\" target=\"_blank\">In a new story in the Telegraph<\/a>, the Oscar dress question came up again. This time, she said, &#8220;It&#8217;s    probably going to be a catastrophe. But it&#8217;s like, I&#8217;m gonna go for it.&#8221; I can&#8217;t wait to see! And, by the way, I thought she was stellar in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1504320\/\" target=\"_blank\">The King&#8217;s Speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Huffington Post for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/02\/08\/helena-bonham-carter-oscars-academy-awards_n_820095.html#s236530&amp;title=January_2011\" target=\"_blank\">a slideshow of Helena&#8217;s past outfits<\/a>. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I laughed out loud &#8212; in delight! &#8212; when I saw actress Helena Bonham Carter&#8217;s wild hair, exposed tulle and, especially, her mismatched shoes at the Golden Globes in January. Embed from Getty Images Would I wear this outfit? No. Do I love a woman whose outfits scream, &#8220;Fuck you, fashion police!&#8221;? Hell, yeah! I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/wear-what-you-want-icon-helena-bonham-carter\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,103,560],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-wear-what-you-want","9":"category-wear-what-you-want-icon","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9437"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43229,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions\/43229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}