subscribe to style file blog via RSSYea, Nay, Or Eh: Balmainia, In Real Life
October 23, 2009 5:18 pm
It’s not even the end of October, and we already feel as if we’ve seen every last dress from the Fall 2009 Balmain collection on the red carpet. Don’t believe us? Click here for a slideshow of Balmain babes on parade, from RiRi to Blake Lively.
Last night, though, Sienna Miller one-upped her fellow starlets, wearing look 8 direct from the Spring 2010 catwalk to the opening-night party for her Broadway debut, After Miss Julie. Christophe Decarnin’s hypersexy designs don’t always make an easy transition from runway to reality, and in this case, we’re not sure the usually style-setting Miller has pulled it off (something about the shoes). But what do you think? Yea or nay?
tags: Balmain, Blake Lively, Rihanna, Sienna Miller
Nay… those shoes dont look good with the dress… and well, actually the dress is ugly and the whole collection is ugly LOL
By tr_ro on 10/23/09 at 6:28 pmBy the way… really good slide show! My favorite was the white shirt with black skirt worn by Lauren Santo Domingo and the blue dress… the blue dress is BANANAS!
By tr_ro on 10/23/09 at 6:36 pmI love the dress, and although she didnt go to big efforts to make this dress as stunning as it could be, she still looks amazing!!
By guccilily on 10/23/09 at 7:16 pmthis is a great case in the argument of pretentious label vs. real style. the dress is totally wearing her. XO JS
By jrseguin on 10/23/09 at 7:20 pmLOV LOVE LOVE the dress but she didnt pull it off. he hair and shoes should have been diff.
By couturecandy on 10/23/09 at 8:32 pmThe dress is ok, but the shoes should have been a strappy kind to go along with the shredded dress.
By artdeco5 on 10/23/09 at 9:58 pmBalmain had some interesting pieces that definitely captured my attention. However, this dress is totally wearing her not the other way around. If she had her hair down with a tease, sort of curly hair do with some leather or black suede platform pumps.. perhaps.. but other than that this rock n roll attire isn’t really working for her.
By anjelikahhhh on 10/23/09 at 10:45 pmThe dress is stunning, as well as her hair. About the shoes, I agree she could have wore something more Wow, but the dress is already Wow enough, it would become over the top if she wore some shoes “à la McQueen” style.
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By MAISONCHAPLIN on 10/24/09 at 12:47 amFantastic fit. Hard to see any of these dresses on anyone who’s not a model, but by God, she wears it well….
By alb_flavia on 10/24/09 at 1:33 amP.S. I believe Darya was wearing this on the runway. Yep, she looked majestic!
By alb_flavia on 10/24/09 at 1:34 amor abbey lee…just kidding!
By alb_flavia on 10/24/09 at 1:58 amYea! I think this is a very sexy dress. Ms. Miller looks great in it. The shoes should defiantly be way more sexy. She should be wearing Nikolas Kirkwood.Or something very sexy at least.
By max2622 on 10/24/09 at 1:59 amShe looks lovely, although she should definitely have opted for different shoes. Great collection.
By Lighthouse on 10/24/09 at 7:56 amThe problem is not the dress, its the shoes and hair, it looks too cocktail. She should have worn her usual hair and more edgy shoes or ankle boots.
By georginacookie on 10/24/09 at 11:34 amThe dress is amazing, if Kate Moss wore it like this it would have worked.
Eh…well..i personally think that the whole thing is Ick! I mean look the shoes dont even match..(what would)
I would like it if it was maybe a light blue and orang fading to eachother ..then orangr tights with blue shoes!
But thats just me!* =)
By shantelle_madison on 10/24/09 at 12:08 pmThe dress is wearing her but it’d wear anybody. Yeah, shoes are def a nay & her hands and even her smile suggest she’s not as confident as she usually is.
By shawanda on 10/24/09 at 1:19 pmIt’s not the dress, the hair and shoes are wrong, she should have worn her hair as she usually does and some more interesting shoes or ankle boots………only Kate Moss can pull off a look like this.
By georginacookie on 10/24/09 at 1:45 pmThe dress is amazing.
yay on the dress but nay on the shoes and not the best choice of dress on Sienna M!
By heej97 on 10/24/09 at 2:32 pmI say Yea! I love it. Loose the shoes, though.
By max2622 on 10/24/09 at 4:07 pmI’ve always been a big fan of Balmain…BUT I am getting sick of seeing the knockoffs everywhere … as for these ladies: save it! no need to wear out the look before it even hits stores
By MsPomplemousse on 10/24/09 at 6:14 pmvery futuristic space cadet. look at those huge shoulders! not many people can pull that off, if anyone.
By rscharlie on 10/24/09 at 10:35 pmi like it. she looks super.
By graciewangie on 10/24/09 at 11:59 pmnay foreal! she knows better than that..and besides, sienna is classic, and she can’t pull off some contemporary, even this extravagant! gheezz
By tee_cat on 10/25/09 at 12:56 amI probably would’ve done ankle boots and the hair down and messy
By andreverde on 10/25/09 at 3:39 amwow that doesn’t look good
By ilovecookiesandcream on 10/25/09 at 4:41 amnay! She looks quite strange and… plump, doesn’t she??
By YanaAddict on 10/25/09 at 8:32 amNo, I don’t think Sienna is working this look at all. I can’t say I’m a big fan of the dress itself, though, either…
By caffeinerush on 10/25/09 at 10:15 amthat was outfit 8 in the show, shown by the astonishing ms abbey lee - the following outfits veer so far towards overdone, shallow, shredded street styles, that it is difficult to see balmain beneath: 1, 4, 5, 7, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 24 - 26, 30, 34 & 36 - the other outfits are quite brilliant and original - still, not just anyone can wear them just anywhere … ! \,,/
By mercuryloge on 10/25/09 at 10:45 amis beutyful
By utrends99 on 10/25/09 at 11:02 amShe looks quite lovely, although she should have opted for different shoes. It was quite a splendid collection.
By Lighthouse on 10/25/09 at 11:17 amAbbey wore it better. Oi Oi Oi.
By Leedox on 10/25/09 at 6:47 pmNay, Nay, Nay. All the stylists are choosing Balmain dresses for their stars. These dresses are hard to pull off unless you’re a size 0 model. This is proof that starlets these days only care about the label, they all lack real style.
By menukjau on 10/25/09 at 7:29 pmyea, like the edgy lookxxx
By ameliajen on 10/25/09 at 10:09 pmthis is just wrong!Killer DRESS, someone needs to kill”her” stylists! hair included… way to destroy multiple style icons in one fell swoop.boooo……
By leesa on 10/25/09 at 10:33 pmtotal and complete nay. plus, what’s up with the mom hair and make-up? it’s like come on sienna, are you even trying?
By teapea19 on 10/25/09 at 10:40 pmTotal and complete NAY! and what’s up with the mom hair and make-up. it’s like, come on sienna, are you even trying?
By teapea19 on 10/25/09 at 10:44 pmhttp://www.phashionable.com
I think she looks amazing! Great look.
By julian_garcia on 10/25/09 at 11:17 pmThe usually fashionable Miller has just found herself looking like she just took off her ice skates…can we say Balmain for the Ice Capades? Hmmmmm….
By Finedetails on 10/25/09 at 11:47 pmThe dress looks pretty good on her but the hair, makeup and the shoes are all wrong. If you’re gonna wear a destoyed sequin minidress you have to do it with some p’zazz!
Otherwise Ithink Balmain translated pretty well into real life. The girls wearing all look amazingly strong and sexy. Except for Pink though who made that $1k dress look like a $10 dress.
By Gtgoon on 10/26/09 at 6:14 amI’ve noticed that you didn’t post my comment. I’d like to know what was wrong with it: I tried twice. Is it because it was positive?
By Lighthouse on 10/26/09 at 6:36 amHi Lighthouse, We definitely didn’t edit your comment b/c it was positive. We only delete spam and anything offensive. It seems to have not gone through. Please try again. And thanks for commenting!
By jconnors on 10/26/09 at 8:28 amShe obviously thought “I’m wearing a gorgeous (if slightly unwearable) dress, I best tone everything else down”… and she got it wrong.
By KimPenelope on 10/26/09 at 9:21 amhmmm, the dress is amazing, but Balmain to me seems too common now.
By Signature on 10/26/09 at 2:49 pmI sienna looks pretty good in this.
By K8SINC on 10/26/09 at 6:03 pmI think some black platforms might have been better & maybe loose wavy/curly locks…but the hair pulled back isnt too bad x
Beautiful absolutely Beautiful, she is sooo stunning!!! I bet the guys love this she probably gets all the attention. Just lovely!!!=D
By microberts on 10/26/09 at 7:31 pmI think that the shoes don’t follow the aesthetics of the dress and neither does the hair - it should be loose and a styled so that is disheveled a bit or left down in loose curls, not tightly up when the dress is made of cut-outs and uneven hemlines
By JMBeyer on 10/27/09 at 4:00 amEverything about Sienna in this picture makes me want to stick her in a little ballerina outfit - tutu and all. Not a slashed up, edgy, dazzling dress.
By einnobbb on 10/27/09 at 10:29 amI think the first comment said it all!! Sheena-Queen-of-the-Jungle si another sign of Nikkie running our of ideas and Ms Miller.. puuulizzzzzzzzz!!!!
By Slacker on 10/27/09 at 9:21 pmNot wild about the dress on her (I love it as a concept and could see it on Alexa Chung, for example, who is more sprite-like), but if she HAD to wear it cause she literally had nothing else in her wardrobe, if her cupboards were bare, I’d rather have seen her with her hair down, pref ripply wet look-ish, and as for the shoes… barefoot, with no toe nail varnish. Go for the whole forest creature look.
I agree, great little slide show, tho, and my favourites are:
Robin Wright Penn (DEFINITELY the right shoes!)
Lauren Santa Domingo (ditto)
Jazzy in the electric shock therapy blue dress: anything in that colour will knock black out of the running. Altho, we can’t see her shoes! ; )
Nice little contest. Thanks for putting this together.
jill @ streetstylelondon
By polkadot23 on 10/28/09 at 5:20 amI suppose it just doesn’t look as dramatic as it’s supposed to be. On her small frame it looks weak. And I agree that her shoes and hair definitely need to be different.
By cphillis07 on 10/28/09 at 6:14 pmYou know….this doesn’t work for me at all. I’m not sure why, but I think Balmain is too edgy for Sienna. Nice try, no cigar.
By bossmama on 10/28/09 at 6:26 pmRight. So I am a fan of the dress and of the entire collection in general, but in this case the dress is wearing her, rather than vice versa. No bag, No jewelry? It just doesn’t look personalized at all. And Ick! on simple black pumps.
By 100mph on 10/28/09 at 9:36 pmYea for the dress, nay for the shoes. The shoes are too pretty and “tame” for this raw, sexy dress. Miller should’ve worn a pair of bold open-toe platform instead, like those from Ann Demeulemeester or Gucci Spring 2010, if not something from Balmain’s own. I wonder what Anna Wintour would say about this look that her “feistiest fashion icon” tried to pull off. Anyway, Miller’s still a great-looking star.
By adhitawakal on 10/28/09 at 9:43 pmI don’t really mind her hair, though. It’s pretty but doesn’t necessarily go with the dress (but does with the shoes). But I can’t instantly agree with her leaving her hair down and messy either. Sure, that would go well with the dress. But wouldn’t that be a direct rip-off from the runway? Had she done that, I believe critics would’ve lost faith in Miller’s style and originality.
By adhitawakal on 10/28/09 at 9:50 pmDefinitely a Nay! Those shoes kill the look completely… oh Sienna, what’s happened to you?
By pippah on 10/29/09 at 5:22 amThis collection has ruined the good name of The House of Balmain.
By shaunalex on 10/29/09 at 11:35 amSK
NAY…The dress looks as though its been thru a fire and gasoline has been spilled all over it. Where is the real Balmain?
By shaunalex on 10/29/09 at 11:38 amKind of , not as good as models did during catwalk. Lacking the right attitude. Not sure if want to be perceived as cute or edgy
By MariaIW on 10/31/09 at 8:04 am