Globe Trotters, by Andre Leon Talley, was originally published in the March 2005 issue of Vogue.
This was not exactly a banner fashion year for the Golden Globes.
In fact, the earthworms were more fun.
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Just about every major star should fire her entire styling teambeginning with her hairstylist.
It looked to me very declasse.
Could we have some new ideas, c’mon, from the hair and makeup people?
And on the red carpet there were no sparks, no electric wattage either.
Emmy is a student at Columbia University, and she is taking all this stuff very seriously.
You would never see me running around Hollywood in a cotton velour tracksuit and Uggs!
Emmy loved her dress the way an eighteen-year-oldshouldfall in love with her first important dress.
For a young lady, she definitely has a sense of who she is, Ralph told me.
She always looks the way Hollywood used to dress, at all times.
I have been wearing Ralph Lauren since I was thirteen, Emmy said.
Mostly sweaters and turtlenecks.
This dress feels great, and it is easy to walk in.
My mother asked me what did I want for my birthday.
I said no, I want Harry Winston diamonds.
When she grins, those 32 white pearls dazzle with something magical.
However, note to Emmy from Andre: you gotta show off your wonderful neckline!
No more of those drooping hairdos that cover the neck and shoulders.
Next time, wear your hair up!
I found Hilary seated in the living room of the penthouse suite.
Come on in here, she said.
And here she was inviting me in without an appointment!
It was only an hour or so before showtime.
(Chewy Vuitton, ha-ha!)
Is there a great heroine you would love to play that you have not yet?
Well, she said, there is one.
She was a great woman.
Down the hall, I found Joely already dressed.
Her blonde hair was turned into a chignon; the Neil Lane diamonds had been piled on.
Her dress was a Madame Gres-inspired draped seafoam gown by the English designer Catherine Walker.
You remember when Princess Diana had a dress like this from Catherine Walker?
I wanted the inspiration of that .
which was inspired by Grace Kelly, inTo Catch a Thief.
How Now?
But wait, why was just about everyone else wearing brown?
Well, I wore brown for Chad, Hilary told me.
Chic choice, Chad!
Renee Zellweger bounced up the red carpet, almost percolated, in an espresso moire-silk bustier from Carolina Herrera.
)Halle Berry, in cappuccino ruffles from Valentino, followed close behind her.
And then there was Kate Hudson, in Versace, who also chose a rich copper-brown.
And I am all for propriety and consideration!
But lined up in ranks, these brown-uniformed stars looked downright wooden.
Do you hear, Hollywood?
Neck & Necklace
The competition for jewelhustling has become fierce.
I asked as he came in clutching his statuette.
Of course it does, Jamie said.
It’s part of the blessing, and this is for all black people.
Look, you know what it was like, growing up, going to church.
I owe so much to my grandmother.
She taught me that I was a necessary black man.
That whole life with my grandmother made me the Southern gentleman I am.
With this, the greatest moment of my life, you build leverage.
And I am going to use this leverage on the dance floor.
I never got that question before, he said.
