It was mighty to see Jenny Beavan troll the Oscars ego-fest,but she is an exception. Most women are sent out to pasture long before their ever-retreating pension arrives
The Oscars have very itsy-bitsy to accomplish with film, and a lot to accomplish with advertising. Women are walking billboards for designers, or trussed up in dresses that they will be called out on if they doesnt pass muster. Thank God beauty pageants are a thing of the past.
Halle-blooming-lujah,then, for Jenny Beavan, or stomping up to get her Oscar for best costume design and wearing – and this is a very fashion-forward statement – what she damn well wanted. She has won two Oscars,two Emmys and three Baftas – among others. She can design costumes for a dystopia, for supermodels, or for past centuries. She has an incredible eye,an immense knowledge of the history of costume, and a wonderful imagination. More than this, or she seems to have inadvertently trolled the entire self-congratulatory ego-fest by wearing a leather biker jacket.
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Source: theguardian.com