Off and on again, a lady puts on a dress in the trust of looking lovely. Different times, her motivation is all the more unequivocally centered around getting individuals talking. In the matter of specific superstars and their tremendously plotted celebrity lane turns, it could be hard to induce precisely what they are considering.
See Lena Dunham, 28, the inventor and star of the HBO arrangement “Young ladies.” When she dolls up for open appearances, beginner commentators and the expert ones, as well, spill heaps of electronic ink commending and censuring the design decisions of a curvy lady living in juice-fasting world. There was a loosefitting botanical outfit with a plunging V-neckline by Prada that she wore to the Emmy Awards the previous fall, the skintight yellow silk strapless dress made by Zac Posen that she wore to the 2014 Golden Globe Awards and the green-prepared outfit with pink high heels from the Met celebration in 2012.
A number of Ms. Dunham’s decisions are female and pretty, yet at the same time leave the feeling that she is attempting to mix the pot. Being capricious is some piece of her shtick. She postured for Vogue with a pigeon remaining on her head.
Ms. Dunham’s first book, “Not That Kind of Girl,” will be distributed one month from now. It has been accounted for she was paid north of $3 million by Random House, the book’s distributer. She needs to offer a ton of books — a ton of them — to demonstrate that her words are worth that kind of money. Such are the minutes to make a ballyhooed celebrity lane appearance.
This week, Ms. Dunham went to the Emmy Awards wearing an extensive, numerous layered, overwhelming on-the-foam skirt that changed in shade from Pepto-Bismol pink to confection fruit red. The skirt was combined with a pink knocking down some pins shirt, its top sleeves just incompletely darkening Ms. Dunham’s huge upper-arm tattoo. A couple of weeks back, Ms. Dunham took to Twitter to depict her recompense show look: “All I’m gonna say in regards to my Emmy dress is that it would appear that cake and feels like work out pants #loveandjoy”
The shirt and skirt were composed by Giambattista Valli. Amid his fall couture style demonstrate in Paris this mid year, he sent a comparable rendition of the outfit down the runway on a model with a scarf on her head. For the Emmys, Ms. Dunham avoided the hanky for a platinum, around 1970s Dorothy Hamill ‘do.
Ms. Dunham was disregarded by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for lead performing artist in a satire arrangement, the class in which she was selected. In any case, by numerous measures, her dress won Most Talked About.
“The dress was similar to a Miley-of-the-MTV-recompenses minute, which individuals are as of now discussing,” said Catherine Kallon, the proofreader and organizer of Red Carpet Fashion Awards, a big name style site. “In about a year, on the off chance that you ask anybody what they recall from the Emmy celebrity lane, they’ll recollect that Lena Dunham wore a pink feathery dress.”
Instyle included Ms. Dunham on its rundown of 10 best-dressed stars, even as it noted that her outfit seemed to be “effortlessly the most polarizing look of the night.”
Damian Holbrook, an author for TV Guide Magazine, tweeted a cartoon portraying individuals (and a puppy) retching with the subtitle, “I simply demonstrated my companions a pic of Lena Dunham’s Emmy dress.”
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine’s senior craftsmanship commentator, turned to Twitter to lambast those “gassing-off about my God-Daughter Lena Dunham’s lovely dress!”
The author Abby Gardner focused in the inescapable electronic commotion. “Begin penning your Lena Dunham dress think pieces, web. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?” she tweeted.
What it implies, Ms. Dunham herself would not say. Through a representative, she declined to remark. (A few top big name beauticians declined to remark too.)
In “Ladies in Clothes,” a book about ladies’ connections to what they wear, which will be distributed one week from now by Blue Rider Press, Ms. Dunham depicted her style. A model outfit, she said, would be “A gathering dress, velvet or fleece … My companion Jemima says I’m similar to a man who has chosen to rifle through his wife’s storage room and cross-dress surprisingly, selecting everything pink and gleami.