Emmys 2012: ‘Mad Men’ Star Christina Hendricks Might Wear Atelier Versace to the Awards

Once upon a time, Mad Men’s sexy star Christina Hendricks was thwarted in her attempts to score designer gowns for red carpet strolls. In 2010, she told a Scottish newspaper that she’d had to beg for an Emmy dress from designers who thought she was too curvy (read: Not a sample size 0-2).

Christina Hendricks, Lea Michele, Jessica Alba Get Primo Seats at Atelier Versace Show ‘Mad Men’ Unzips Christina Hendricks’ Season 5 Promo (Exclusive Video)

“Not one designer will loan me a dress,” the 2012 Emmy nominee said at the time. “They only lend out a size zero or a size 2. So I’m still struggling for someone to give me a darn dress!”

That year, she ended up walking the Emmy carpet in a vintage-inspired lavender Zac Posen gown with fluttery sleeves. Not her finest fashion moment.

PHOTOS: Unzipping Joan: Christina Hendricks Is TV’s Most Talked-About Bombshell

Well, that’s all changing. Hendricks snagged a stunning silver beaded couture dress by Aussie designer Johanna Johnson for the 2011 awards ceremony. While the dress took a month to make, the designer’s sales went through the roof, making the effort well worth the global media exposure.

“The red carpet is incredibly powerful. It was literally within minutes of (Hendricks) walking on the red carpet that we recorded our first sale, and I would say by the end of the day we would have doubled on the previous day’s sales, and that’s probably being conservative,” Johnson told the Sydney Morning Herald.

For the 2012 Emmys, Hendricks no longer has to beg. After all, she’s got a darn good shot at winning for her sensitive, layered portrayal of Mad Men‘s Joan Holloway, who doesn’t let her pride — or her morals — get in the way of her professional advancement and financial security. This past season, she agreed to sleep with a client to land a big account for the firm and was made a partner as a reward.

Her Emmy chances might be why Hendricks was seated in the coveted front row at the Versace 2013 Couture show in Paris a few weeks ago. She wore a revealing Atelier Versace Spring 2012 gold gown, unfortunately covered by a black blazer.

This front row placement signals that she was invited to the show, flown to Paris and put up in a fancy hotel by the fashion house. And this implies a possible working fashion relationship with Donatella Versace for the Emmy carpet and perhaps the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild as well.

Hendricks has lately been wearing designs by British designer Vivienne Westwood, who makes silhouettes very flattering to an hourglass figure and full bust. Her latest winner was Westwood’s pink silk off-the-shoulder gown worn to the New York premiere of I Don’t Know How She Does It.  

But those red-carpet placements could be because she’s the face of Westwood’s Palladium jewelry collection. 

Either way, our money is on a spectacular shimmery, sexy Versace creation for the big Emmy night of September 26. How about you?

Article source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fash-track/emmys-mad-men-christina-hendricks-351879

Emmys 2012: ‘Mad Men’ Star Christina Hendricks Might Wear Atelier Versace to the Awards

Once upon a time, Mad Men’s sexy star Christina Hendricks was thwarted in her attempts to score designer gowns for red carpet strolls. In 2010, she told a Scottish newspaper that she’d had to beg for an Emmy dress from designers who thought she was too curvy (read: Not a sample size 0-2).

Christina Hendricks, Lea Michele, Jessica Alba Get Primo Seats at Atelier Versace Show ‘Mad Men’ Unzips Christina Hendricks’ Season 5 Promo (Exclusive Video)

“Not one designer will loan me a dress,” the 2012 Emmy nominee said at the time. “They only lend out a size zero or a size 2. So I’m still struggling for someone to give me a darn dress!”

That year, she ended up walking the Emmy carpet in a vintage-inspired lavender Zac Posen gown with fluttery sleeves. Not her finest fashion moment.

PHOTOS: Unzipping Joan: Christina Hendricks Is TV’s Most Talked-About Bombshell

Well, that’s all changing. Hendricks snagged a stunning silver beaded couture dress by Aussie designer Johanna Johnson for the 2011 awards ceremony. While the dress took a month to make, the designer’s sales went through the roof, making the effort well worth the global media exposure.

“The red carpet is incredibly powerful. It was literally within minutes of (Hendricks) walking on the red carpet that we recorded our first sale, and I would say by the end of the day we would have doubled on the previous day’s sales, and that’s probably being conservative,” Johnson told the Sydney Morning Herald.

For the 2012 Emmys, Hendricks no longer has to beg. After all, she’s got a darn good shot at winning for her sensitive, layered portrayal of Mad Men‘s Joan Holloway, who doesn’t let her pride — or her morals — get in the way of her professional advancement and financial security. This past season, she agreed to sleep with a client to land a big account for the firm and was made a partner as a reward.

Her Emmy chances might be why Hendricks was seated in the coveted front row at the Versace 2013 Couture show in Paris a few weeks ago. She wore a revealing Atelier Versace Spring 2012 gold gown, unfortunately covered by a black blazer.

This front row placement signals that she was invited to the show, flown to Paris and put up in a fancy hotel by the fashion house. And this implies a possible working fashion relationship with Donatella Versace for the Emmy carpet and perhaps the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild as well.

Hendricks has lately been wearing designs by British designer Vivienne Westwood, who makes silhouettes very flattering to an hourglass figure and full bust. Her latest winner was Westwood’s pink silk off-the-shoulder gown worn to the New York premiere of I Don’t Know How She Does It.  

But those red-carpet placements could be because she’s the face of Westwood’s Palladium jewelry collection. 

Either way, our money is on a spectacular shimmery, sexy Versace creation for the big Emmy night of September 26. How about you?

Article source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fash-track/emmys-mad-men-christina-hendricks-351879

Emmys 2012: ‘Mad Men’ Star Christina Hendricks Might Wear Atelier Versace to the Awards

Once upon a time, Mad Men’s sexy star Christina Hendricks was thwarted in her attempts to score designer gowns for red carpet strolls. In 2010, she told a Scottish newspaper that she’d had to beg for an Emmy dress from designers who thought she was too curvy (read: Not a sample size 0-2).

Christina Hendricks, Lea Michele, Jessica Alba Get Primo Seats at Atelier Versace Show ‘Mad Men’ Unzips Christina Hendricks’ Season 5 Promo (Exclusive Video)

“Not one designer will loan me a dress,” the 2012 Emmy nominee said at the time. “They only lend out a size zero or a size 2. So I’m still struggling for someone to give me a darn dress!”

That year, she ended up walking the Emmy carpet in a vintage-inspired lavender Zac Posen gown with fluttery sleeves. Not her finest fashion moment.

PHOTOS: Unzipping Joan: Christina Hendricks Is TV’s Most Talked-About Bombshell

Well, that’s all changing. Hendricks snagged a stunning silver beaded couture dress by Aussie designer Johanna Johnson for the 2011 awards ceremony. While the dress took a month to make, the designer’s sales went through the roof, making the effort well worth the global media exposure.

“The red carpet is incredibly powerful. It was literally within minutes of (Hendricks) walking on the red carpet that we recorded our first sale, and I would say by the end of the day we would have doubled on the previous day’s sales, and that’s probably being conservative,” Johnson told the Sydney Morning Herald.

For the 2012 Emmys, Hendricks no longer has to beg. After all, she’s got a darn good shot at winning for her sensitive, layered portrayal of Mad Men‘s Joan Holloway, who doesn’t let her pride — or her morals — get in the way of her professional advancement and financial security. This past season, she agreed to sleep with a client to land a big account for the firm and was made a partner as a reward.

Her Emmy chances might be why Hendricks was seated in the coveted front row at the Versace 2013 Couture show in Paris a few weeks ago. She wore a revealing Atelier Versace Spring 2012 gold gown, unfortunately covered by a black blazer.

This front row placement signals that she was invited to the show, flown to Paris and put up in a fancy hotel by the fashion house. And this implies a possible working fashion relationship with Donatella Versace for the Emmy carpet and perhaps the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild as well.

Hendricks has lately been wearing designs by British designer Vivienne Westwood, who makes silhouettes very flattering to an hourglass figure and full bust. Her latest winner was Westwood’s pink silk off-the-shoulder gown worn to the New York premiere of I Don’t Know How She Does It.  

But those red-carpet placements could be because she’s the face of Westwood’s Palladium jewelry collection. 

Either way, our money is on a spectacular shimmery, sexy Versace creation for the big Emmy night of September 26. How about you?

Article source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fash-track/emmys-mad-men-christina-hendricks-351879

‘Mad Men’ costumes get Emmy snub

Click photo to enlargeIs it time to trade polished sheaths and all-business suits for lace gowns and tweed jodhpurs?

“Mad Men,” with its influential ’60s style, was overlooked for an Emmy Award nomination on Thursday for costume design for the first time in its five-year run. And while fans expressed shock about the snub, the fashion world has already embraced another nominee: “Downton Abbey.”

Episodes of “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Borgias,” “Game of Thrones” and “Once Upon a Time” also received nominations, but the likelihood of the masses finding their closets influenced by medieval Italians or mythical adventurers seems slim.

The British aristocracy of the early 1900s featured in “Downton Abbey,” however, is already making its mark.

Ralph Lauren paid homage to the show in the preview of his fall collection earlier this year, with models walking down the runway to the soundtrack. Expect more glamorous and embellished looks inspired by the show to take over store racks over the next few weeks, says Brooke Jaffe, director of fashion accessories at Bloomingdale’s. “There is a return to opulence,” Jaffe says.

Stylist George Kotsiopolous, co-host for E!’s “Fashion Police,” noted that gentlemanly looks, for men and women, come from the “Downton Abbey” pre-World War I period. “Designers are influenced by the same things as stylists: movies, TV, music, art—whatever is the zeitgeist,” he says.

For the past few years, it had been the chic, sophisticated “Mad

Men” look that dominated the fashion conversation, and the show had a wildfire ability to turn back the clock on contemporary style to embrace the clean, refined lines of the early 1960s. Countless designers, including Michael Kors and Peter Som, cited its influence, and Banana Republic launched a “Mad Men”-branded collection.

“The shape had been the same for a while—the shaped waist, the va-va-voom look,” Kostiopolous says. When it became common from “Mad Men,” he says, “it becomes

less interesting to fashion people.”

He doesn’t think the look will go away altogether, though. “Women looked good in the ’50s and ’60s because the clothes were universally flattering, and any guy looks great in a suit.”

Article source: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21112050/mad-men-costumes-get-emmy-snub

‘Mad Men’ costumes get Emmy snub

Click photo to enlargeIs it time to trade polished sheaths and all-business suits for lace gowns and tweed jodhpurs?

“Mad Men,” with its influential ’60s style, was overlooked for an Emmy Award nomination on Thursday for costume design for the first time in its five-year run. And while fans expressed shock about the snub, the fashion world has already embraced another nominee: “Downton Abbey.”

Episodes of “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Borgias,” “Game of Thrones” and “Once Upon a Time” also received nominations, but the likelihood of the masses finding their closets influenced by medieval Italians or mythical adventurers seems slim.

The British aristocracy of the early 1900s featured in “Downton Abbey,” however, is already making its mark.

Ralph Lauren paid homage to the show in the preview of his fall collection earlier this year, with models walking down the runway to the soundtrack. Expect more glamorous and embellished looks inspired by the show to take over store racks over the next few weeks, says Brooke Jaffe, director of fashion accessories at Bloomingdale’s. “There is a return to opulence,” Jaffe says.

Stylist George Kotsiopolous, co-host for E!’s “Fashion Police,” noted that gentlemanly looks, for men and women, come from the “Downton Abbey” pre-World War I period. “Designers are influenced by the same things as stylists: movies, TV, music, art—whatever is the zeitgeist,” he says.

For the past few years, it had been the chic, sophisticated “Mad

Men” look that dominated the fashion conversation, and the show had a wildfire ability to turn back the clock on contemporary style to embrace the clean, refined lines of the early 1960s. Countless designers, including Michael Kors and Peter Som, cited its influence, and Banana Republic launched a “Mad Men”-branded collection.

“The shape had been the same for a while—the shaped waist, the va-va-voom look,” Kostiopolous says. When it became common from “Mad Men,” he says, “it becomes

less interesting to fashion people.”

He doesn’t think the look will go away altogether, though. “Women looked good in the ’50s and ’60s because the clothes were universally flattering, and any guy looks great in a suit.”

Article source: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21112050/mad-men-costumes-get-emmy-snub

Emmys 2012: ‘Mad Men’ Star Christina Hendricks Might Wear Atelier Versace to the Awards

Once upon a time, Mad Men’s sexy star Christina Hendricks was thwarted in her attempts to score designer gowns for red carpet strolls. In 2010, she told a Scottish newspaper that she’d had to beg for an Emmy dress from designers who thought she was too curvy (read: Not a sample size 0-2).

Christina Hendricks, Lea Michele, Jessica Alba Get Primo Seats at Atelier Versace Show ‘Mad Men’ Unzips Christina Hendricks’ Season 5 Promo (Exclusive Video)

“Not one designer will loan me a dress,” the 2012 Emmy nominee said at the time. “They only lend out a size zero or a size 2. So I’m still struggling for someone to give me a darn dress!”

That year, she ended up walking the Emmy carpet in a vintage-inspired lavender Zac Posen gown with fluttery sleeves. Not her finest fashion moment.

PHOTOS: Unzipping Joan: Christina Hendricks Is TV’s Most Talked-About Bombshell

Well, that’s all changing. Hendricks snagged a stunning silver beaded couture dress by Aussie designer Johanna Johnson for the 2011 awards ceremony. While the dress took a month to make, the designer’s sales went through the roof, making the effort well worth the global media exposure.

“The red carpet is incredibly powerful. It was literally within minutes of (Hendricks) walking on the red carpet that we recorded our first sale, and I would say by the end of the day we would have doubled on the previous day’s sales, and that’s probably being conservative,” Johnson told the Sydney Morning Herald.

For the 2012 Emmys, Hendricks no longer has to beg. After all, she’s got a darn good shot at winning for her sensitive, layered portrayal of Mad Men‘s Joan Holloway, who doesn’t let her pride — or her morals — get in the way of her professional advancement and financial security. This past season, she agreed to sleep with a client to land a big account for the firm and was made a partner as a reward.

Her Emmy chances might be why Hendricks was seated in the coveted front row at the Versace 2013 Couture show in Paris a few weeks ago. She wore a revealing Atelier Versace Spring 2012 gold gown, unfortunately covered by a black blazer.

This front row placement signals that she was invited to the show, flown to Paris and put up in a fancy hotel by the fashion house. And this implies a possible working fashion relationship with Donatella Versace for the Emmy carpet and perhaps the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild as well.

Hendricks has lately been wearing designs by British designer Vivienne Westwood, who makes silhouettes very flattering to an hourglass figure and full bust. Her latest winner was Westwood’s pink silk off-the-shoulder gown worn to the New York premiere of I Don’t Know How She Does It.  

But those red-carpet placements could be because she’s the face of Westwood’s Palladium jewelry collection. 

Either way, our money is on a spectacular shimmery, sexy Versace creation for the big Emmy night of September 26. How about you?

Article source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fash-track/emmys-mad-men-christina-hendricks-351879

‘Mad Men’ is overlooked for Emmy costume nod; ‘Downton Abbey’ style makes a splash

Is it time to trade polished sheaths and all-business suits for lace gowns and tweed jodhpurs?

“Mad Men,” with its influential ’60s style, was overlooked for an Emmy Award nomination on Thursday for costume design for the first time in its five-year run. And while fans expressed shock about the snub, the fashion world has already embraced another nominee: “Downton Abbey.”

Episodes of “Boardwalk Empire,” ”The Borgias,” ”Game of Thrones” and “Once Upon a Time” also received nominations, but the likelihood of the masses finding their closets influenced by medieval Italians or mythical adventurers seems slim.

The British aristocracy of the early 1900s featured in “Downton Abbey,” however, is already making its mark.

Ralph Lauren paid homage to the show in the preview of his fall collection earlier this year, with models walking down the runway to the soundtrack. Expect more glamorous and embellished looks inspired by the show to take over store racks over the next few weeks, says Brooke Jaffe, director of fashion accessories at Bloomingdale’s. “There is a return to opulence,” Jaffe says.

Stylist George Kotsiopolous, co-host for E!’s “Fashion Police,” noted that gentlemanly looks, for men and women, come from the “Downton Abbey” pre-World War I period. “Designers are influenced by the same things as stylists: movies, TV, music, art — whatever is the zeitgeist,” he says.

For the past few years, it had been the chic, sophisticated “Mad Men” look that dominated the fashion conversation, and the show had a wildfire ability to turn back the clock on contemporary style to embrace the clean, refined lines of the early 1960s. Countless designers, including Michael Kors and Peter Som, cited its influence, and Banana Republic launched a “Mad Men”-branded collection.

“The shape had been the same for a while — the shaped waist, the va-va-voom look,” Kostiopolous says. When it became common from “Mad Men,” he says, “it becomes less interesting to fashion people.”

He doesn’t think the look will go away altogether, though. “Women looked good in the ’50s and ’60s because the clothes were universally flattering, and any guy looks great in a suit.”

Article source: http://ca.omg.yahoo.com/news/mad-men-overlooked-emmy-costume-nod-downton-abbey-185515820.html

‘Mad Men’ is overlooked for Emmy costume nod; ‘Downton Abbey’ style makes a splash

Is it time to trade polished sheaths and all-business suits for lace gowns and tweed jodhpurs?

“Mad Men,” with its influential ’60s style, was overlooked for an Emmy Award nomination on Thursday for costume design for the first time in its five-year run. And while fans expressed shock about the snub, the fashion world has already embraced another nominee: “Downton Abbey.”

Episodes of “Boardwalk Empire,” ”The Borgias,” ”Game of Thrones” and “Once Upon a Time” also received nominations, but the likelihood of the masses finding their closets influenced by medieval Italians or mythical adventurers seems slim.

The British aristocracy of the early 1900s featured in “Downton Abbey,” however, is already making its mark.

Ralph Lauren paid homage to the show in the preview of his fall collection earlier this year, with models walking down the runway to the soundtrack. Expect more glamorous and embellished looks inspired by the show to take over store racks over the next few weeks, says Brooke Jaffe, director of fashion accessories at Bloomingdale’s. “There is a return to opulence,” Jaffe says.

Stylist George Kotsiopolous, co-host for E!’s “Fashion Police,” noted that gentlemanly looks, for men and women, come from the “Downton Abbey” pre-World War I period. “Designers are influenced by the same things as stylists: movies, TV, music, art — whatever is the zeitgeist,” he says.

For the past few years, it had been the chic, sophisticated “Mad Men” look that dominated the fashion conversation, and the show had a wildfire ability to turn back the clock on contemporary style to embrace the clean, refined lines of the early 1960s. Countless designers, including Michael Kors and Peter Som, cited its influence, and Banana Republic launched a “Mad Men”-branded collection.

“The shape had been the same for a while — the shaped waist, the va-va-voom look,” Kostiopolous says. When it became common from “Mad Men,” he says, “it becomes less interesting to fashion people.”

He doesn’t think the look will go away altogether, though. “Women looked good in the ’50s and ’60s because the clothes were universally flattering, and any guy looks great in a suit.”

Article source: http://www.canada.com/entertainment/all/overlooked+Emmy+costume+Downton+Abbey+style+makes+splash/6959820/story.html

‘Mad Men’ costumes get Emmy snub

Click photo to enlargeIs it time to trade polished sheaths and all-business suits for lace gowns and tweed jodhpurs?

“Mad Men,” with its influential ’60s style, was overlooked for an Emmy Award nomination on Thursday for costume design for the first time in its five-year run. And while fans expressed shock about the snub, the fashion world has already embraced another nominee: “Downton Abbey.”

Episodes of “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Borgias,” “Game of Thrones” and “Once Upon a Time” also received nominations, but the likelihood of the masses finding their closets influenced by medieval Italians or mythical adventurers seems slim.

The British aristocracy of the early 1900s featured in “Downton Abbey,” however, is already making its mark.

Ralph Lauren paid homage to the show in the preview of his fall collection earlier this year, with models walking down the runway to the soundtrack. Expect more glamorous and embellished looks inspired by the show to take over store racks over the next few weeks, says Brooke Jaffe, director of fashion accessories at Bloomingdale’s. “There is a return to opulence,” Jaffe says.

Stylist George Kotsiopolous, co-host for E!’s “Fashion Police,” noted that gentlemanly looks, for men and women, come from the “Downton Abbey” pre-World War I period. “Designers are influenced by the same things as stylists: movies, TV, music, art—whatever is the zeitgeist,” he says.

For the past few years, it had been the chic, sophisticated “Mad

Men” look that dominated the fashion conversation, and the show had a wildfire ability to turn back the clock on contemporary style to embrace the clean, refined lines of the early 1960s. Countless designers, including Michael Kors and Peter Som, cited its influence, and Banana Republic launched a “Mad Men”-branded collection.

“The shape had been the same for a while—the shaped waist, the va-va-voom look,” Kostiopolous says. When it became common from “Mad Men,” he says, “it becomes

less interesting to fashion people.”

He doesn’t think the look will go away altogether, though. “Women looked good in the ’50s and ’60s because the clothes were universally flattering, and any guy looks great in a suit.”

Article source: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21112050/mad-men-costumes-get-emmy-snub

‘Mad Men’ Captures Not Just the Fashion and Political Zeitgeist, but the Sixties Foodie Scene too

The last scene of Mad Men’s fifth season finale on June 10 featured dapper Don Draper (Jon Hamm) ordering an Old Fashioned at a Manhattan bar, a callback to the first scene in the pilot episode of the critically acclaimed series about the 1960s advertising world in which he did the same. “Don’s looking buttoned-up and old-fashioned these days, and that’s what he orders,” says Judy Gelman, the co-author of The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook and an exuberantly thorough affiliated blog, which chronicles the show through the lens of food and drink. “In 1967, he’s even more old-fashioned than he was seven years earlier.”

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The show’s careful concern for style detail — in fashion, furnishing, music and more — has been the subject of much acclaim. But perhaps not quite enough attention has been paid to its keen sense of time and place, especially as a measure and reflection of character, when it comes to the sort of consumption culture that actually involves the gullet.

Gelman and her partner, Peter Zheutlin, share a taxonomist’s eye (or is it tongue?) when it comes to examining what show runner Matthew Weiner and his research and writing staff have conjured out of everything from the hearts of palm salad at midtown haunt Sardi’s to the Beef Wellington that Trudy Campbell (Alison Brie) cooks for a dinner party in suburban Cos Cob, Connecticut.

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Of course, whereas the slim-cut suits and patterned A-line dresses of the era have certainly resonated with today’s viewing audience, prompting a full-on 1960s attire revival during the course of the show’s run, the food hasn’t caught on in the same way with the affluent, educated contemporary fan base whose presumed values — organic! artisanal! authentic! — are simply not in accord with their predecessors, who were themselves most excited about innovations in culinary convenience (canned goods) and technology (Cool Whip).

Perhaps the most notable gastronomic arc that takes place during the series is the cosmopolitan characters’ slow and steady immersion into the then-nascent world of ethnic food. “We see Don dining at Benihana in New York and eating chile rellenos in California,” says Zheutlin. “[Mad Men]’s use of food always seems to convey something about the characters, their place in time and their level of sophistication.” 

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