Diane Kruger Pulls Off Chanel Resort 2013

I admit when I first saw the Chanel Resort 2013 collection, I was shocked by the "Marie Antoinette meets denim and wears sneakers" awfulness. Looking more carefully at the collection, I could find

some few nice wearable dresses, so I thought Karl Lagerfeld would get away with it and celebrities who appreciate themself would never think about wearing one of those looks. My prediction dashed when

Diane Kruger wore a structured dress from this collection for the Chanel Haute Couture AW/13 show. She went further and managed to look amazing pairing it with a black beret and studded flats.

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Fetish Fall: The Night Porter

Looks like Liliana Cavani's Il Portiere Di Notte (The Night Porter, 1974) has been used as inspiration by many people this season. Costumes in this controversial film were made by Piero Tosi, who had already worked with Luchino Visconti creating the amazing looks in La Caduta Degli Dei (The Damned, 1969).

Charlotte Rampling's ensemble of army boots and pants, suspenders, peaked cap, and black opera gloves has been imitated countless times in pop culture (Madonna's Justify My Love or Lady Gaga's LoveGame videos among them). But this "Nazi Chic" style has also been an influence in fashion for years, starting in the mid-seventies with the emergence of the punk movement in London. It kept growing and passed from being a marginal trend to become incorporated by big fashion houses to their collections, such as in John Galliano's Christian Dior A/W 2000-01 Haute Couture.

Christian Dior A/W 2000-01 Haute Couture

This season it seems to be more present than others, not only in collections such as Marc Jacob's Louis Vuitton A/W 2011-12, but in magazine covers and editorials as well.

MET Gala 2011

Sincerely, i'm not a fervent follower of all the galas, red carpets and parties. I enjoy fortuitosly finding the most highlighted outfits and news, and envy all those wonderful gowns and dresses the celebrities wear.

Special case here is the MET's Costume Institute Annual Gala, i find amazing that they chose a topic every year (i guess i love theme parties) and i find it the perfect occasion to be more excentric, outstanding and wear all those dresses that, in another event, wouldn't look so classy and correct.

I had great expectations this year, being Alexander McQueen the honored one,
i was hoping to see an explosion of powerful outfits,
edgy looks and stunning people.

In other words, as the MET suggested,
i was expecting to see "Savage Beauty".

Image of the retrospective organised by the MET

Unfortunately, nothing so far. looks this year have been pristine:

a lot of white, nude, sequins, black, even colour block

but anything as prominent as the british designer deserved 

in his tribute party.

Don't get me wrong, i don't mean i didn't like the dresses and all that, i just thing they looked beautiful but forgettable, and i always expect this gala to bring out the most transgressor gowns.

[Click to see the red carpet beauties]

Chanel Iman

Natasha Poly

Diane Kruger

Gisele Bundchen

Jessica Stam

The Olsens

Miranda Kerr

I must admit there were people who tried:

Daphne Guiness

And people who didn't try much, like Alexa Chung,
who attended the event with a dress
that slightly reminded of the one she picked for Coachella.
(I'm sorry Alexa, but no)

Left: MET Gala    /    Right: Coachella

After all, i'll say i have two winners for last night,
both looking impressive and perfectly according to
what should have been the party's vibe,
drawing the line between a perfect gala outfit and a great fashion moment,
which was what the great McQueen did.

Hamish Bowles           &          Karolina Kurkova