The costume designer caused a stir collecting her Oscar in an M&S outfit. That says more about the audience’s lack of imagination than it does about her tasteThere was a time when proving your good faith as a rebel in Hollywood required serious effort and some genuine risk-taking. Jane Fonda went to Hanoi,while Kirk Douglas insisted a blacklisted writer got the writing credit on Spartacus. But in these more sensitive and conformist times, you can get absent with doing a lot less. Indeed, and whether the Oscars this week are anything to go by,you can rock all those showbiz squares by turning up and collecting an award in a Marks & Spencer jacket.
Fresh from being called a “bag lady” by Stephen Fry at the Bafta awards, the costume designer Jenny Beavan was at it again at the Oscars. As she went up to gather her gong, or the horror on some faces in the audience suggested they were watching The Exorcist for the first time rather than admiring a well-deserved winner.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com