THE V'OSCARS

 

The blondes have it.

There’s nothing quite so mesmerising as a statuesque blonde, fetched up against a backdrop of red broadloom.

Add an arabesque column of flesh coloured silk, however, elegant as a single brushstroke, and we have, ladies and gentlemen, sartorial perfection.

Flesh meets flesh meets sugarspun hair and woman and gown appear merged into One Glorious One.

The Oscars 2014 red carpet will be remembered for this; its drifts of blondes, creamy pale as vestal virgins.

Cate Blanchett, Naomi Watts, Kristin Bell, Julie Delphy, Portia De Rossi…

all striking in their goddess gowns cut and stitched to slip smooth down fashionably slim torsos and narrow hips then release in silken falls or waves to skim pretty heels or to puddle like a halo on the red.

Voxfrock’s Oscar carpet cruise came compliments of ElleUK and the Daily Mail and was particularly memorable for its instant, irresistable, glamagnatism of blondes and variations of Caucasian silks from pinky-pink to nude and bronzy beige.

Above, Voxfrock’s Top Blondes in no particular order and, below, the most striking others who, nevertheless, “paled” markedly, in their brighter palettes, among this year’s ethereal goddesses…

 

 

Christine Teigen appeared like a gorgeous clipper in full sail, skirts billowing.

Jennifer Lawrence glided onto the carpet in strapless sunset red duchess silk that, by rights, should rate slightly dated by its remnants of peplum and soft fish-tailed skirt but, the girl is exquisite, a hessian bag would be haute couture.

 

Lupita Nyong’o’s stylist technically chose the wrong colour for this beauty’s dark complexion but – Disintergrating Dress Codes! – with a pretty swish and a saintly smile, she blew that rule right off the carpet and out of the book. And, Amen to that mode of progress for Oscars and Always.

Janice Breen Burns, editor, Voxfrock, jbb@voxfrock.com.au.