I’m happy to announce I shall be part of E! Network’s Countdown to the Red Carpet: The 2011 Academy Awards. I’ll be doing several fashion segments and hanging out with Jason Kennedy, Ashlan Gorse, the lovely Catt Sadler, Kris Jenner & Ross Matthews! The party gets started at 11 am PT on E! Network!
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February is shaping up to be a crazy busy month for me. And I’m happy about it. While I’m working hard in front of and behind the camera please have a look at me on E! Network’s newest hit Style Star, running all over the world & Saturday’s on the Style Network!
I’m so happy to announce that E! Network’s newest international show, Style Star, premieres this weekend on the Style Network. Each episode a panel of style pros ranging from fashion stylists, designers & celebrities dish on the sartorial choices of… Read More »E! Network’s “Style Star” Running Worldwide!
It’s 2011! 2010 bolted by and poof! It’s gone. So what is my 1st post of 2011 going to be? How about Now, New, Next: The Fashion-y Edition! These are the things to covet (and maybe desire) in the 1st quarter of 2011.
So I don’t blog enough though I spend way too much time on Twitter where my handle (how very 70s trucker CB radio) is MarqueeMarc. I wanna expand my blog. I’ve struggled for years to find a tone. When I started marcellasreynolds.com my blog entries were usually stream of consciousness, what’s going on with me posts. But because of the web I became a bit weary/leery. Seeing things posted about me that were often mean and even more often not true made me gun shy. I pulled back. I started talking less about my life and more about the superfluous; what nail polish colors I like or the length of skirt or fit of pant I think will be huge this season.
Hot on the heels of a very rare and very public style slip from co-star and muse Blake Lively, Leighton Meester has unleashed a lace monstrosity of epic proportions on the world.
This lace jumper is like the scene in Aliens where Ripley says “Cover your eyes Newt.” It’s one of those moments where you ask yourself “does she not have one true friend?” If I knew Leighton and came to pick her up for the Harry Winston Court of Jewels Recreation launch (YES HARRY WINSTON!) and Leighton came downstairs in that lace jumper I would have been like “Girl take ya ass back upstairs and don’t come back down until you find your pants.” Or I would have gotten very ill at the sight of this lace monster and immediately asked to be taken to Bellevue, where I would have left Leighton by the side of the road, note attached to her bust “Lobotomy (obviously) needed.”
But the most frightening thing is this messy mass of lace is by Marchesa. I’m speechless. It’s like Georgina Chapman (Marchesa’s glamorous & gorgeous designer) pranked Leighton. And Ashton Kutcher was way too busy kissing Demi’s ass to turn up & yell “Psych! Sorry B, you’ve been Punk’d!” in his best Gossip Girl voice over.
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Much is written about the search for outer beauty. My life is about exulting the virtues of dressing well, living well and taking care of our skin and bodies. But what about inner beauty? Can you truly be beautiful outside if you are ugly within? And what constitutes inner beauty? Is it our personalities/mental outlook or is it our health/physical well-being? Well with TV shows like True Beauty and even America’s Next Top Model as well as innumerable others seeking to define just that question, I am tossing my proverbial hat in the ring.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is one of the worlds most famous idioms. It’s most often attributed to William Shakespeare but actually dates back to the 3rd Century. Justice Potter Stewart once tried to explain pornography, or what is obscene this way; “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced.. but I know it when I see it…” Beauty is much like this. And trying to define inner beauty? Well you’d have to define what inner beauty means to you.
“I’ve always been about style for people. It was the way you put yourself together and the imagination, not buying this number off the rack, but the way you wear it.” -Ralph Lauren
Let’s face it, every day we get up and we put on basically the same thing. Men wear some variation of a pant be it shorts, trousers or sweats. We all put on a shirt of some sort. Ladies luck out and can toss on a dress. But it’s what we decide to add to the mix that makes us individual. As a stylist I think it’s the use of accessories that separates us from one another. Two men can wear the exact same suit. How they chose to accessorize that suit is what makes it different. Individual.