9 posts tagged "Maggie Gyllenhaal"
Maggie Gyllenhaal Strikes A Pose For Vena Cava
Vena Cava’s Sophie Buhai and Lisa Mayock didn’t have their show as usual this season, opting instead to have their celebrity friends, including Nora Zehetner and Tennessee Thomas, model their forties-esque clothing in their Spring ’12 lookbook. If you thought you had already seen all the looks, think again. Today, Style.com shares a few more offerings from the duo, modeled by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
“Maggie was our ideal woman to represent Vena Cava,” Mayock tells Style.com. “She’s a movie star in the traditional sense, but also has the modern-day qualities we admire and adore in friends, collaborators, and accomplices.”
Toasting T
“Second only to Diane von Furstenberg, Sally Singer is my favorite woman in fashion,” Mickey Boardman said last night. “Wherever she is, I’ll be there with bells on.”
Last night, “there” was the Spotted Pig, and Boardman was indeed on hand-draped in bling if not in bells. He’d turned up, like Charlie Rose, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Adler, and Jason Wu (left, with Singer), to toast Singer’s new gig as the editor in chief of T. The editor herself was in a forward-looking mood (if a little exhausted, like most of those on hand, from a week-plus of fashion shows). But she’s as well known for her wide-ranging non-fashion interests-design, literature, culture, art, and so on-as for her taste for clothes. And at T, that’s a requisite. “I think [the interconnectedness] is indelible to T and the Times, where we have the best newsroom in the world-the best newsrooms all over the world.” Asked if she felt pressure to institute bold changes, she demurred. “Not at all,” she said. “I think Stefano [Tonchi] did an incredible job. I inherited an incredible magazine. I don’t have to change anything. A magazine just naturally takes on the personality of its editor.”
The Spotted Pig, meanwhile, had taken on the personality of the magazine for the night. Giant bouquets of roses scented the second floor room, and scattered around were giant versions of T‘s gothic-script logo constructed out of hay. It may have been the tail end of a long fashion week, but the designers came to pay their respects, too. Joseph Altuzarra, fielding compliments and praise for his show, spoke for many when he said, “Sally was one of my earliest supporters. I’m so happy for her.” And Wu put the capper on it: “What’s not to celebrate? Sally’s amazing.”
Blasblog: Dancing (And The Occasional Strip-Down Push-up) With The Dancers
When I first moved to this big city, the New York City Ballet’s annual Dance With the Dancers benefit was one of my first fancy philanthropic experiences. So Monday night’s fête was both nostalgic and lovely: cocktails on the veranda as the sun set, tucked away in Lincoln Center’s southwest corner (which we’ll all be getting used to come September, when fashion week’s tents are shoved in there). It was all as I had remembered it to be—lots of bubbly, lots of turned-out young women and ballet bodies draped in chiffon. At our table, the honorary chair, Maggie Gyllenhaal, sat between the pregnant Sarah Sophie Flicker and the also pregnant Yelena Yemchuk (pictured, above, with Leith Clark)—cue the camera phone pics of babies passed back and forth (Gyllenhaal admitted she wants another soon). All in all, the usual gala politesse—until, that is, after cocktails, when the company’s dancers busted a dance-off. One group did a Michael Jackson tribute; another, a Chippendales number that had three buffed male dancers spinning in nothing but red underwear, bow ties, and cuff links. It was a gamble: The uptown crowd that came to the David H. Koch Theater were probably expecting tutus and point shoes, not yellow lingerie and flexing physiques. But benefit chairwoman Arden Wohl, for one, was happy to see some of the world’s best dancers let loose. “Look, they’re having fun,” she said, praising the fabulous form of the men’s topless push-ups.
Yea, Nay, Or Eh? Belle Of The Ball
It was (almost) all YSL, all the time at the Met last night, where house CEO Valerie Hermann hosted the Metropolitan Opera’s gala premiere of Armida. Its star diva, Renée Fleming, wore Saint Laurent, as did Maggie Gyllenhaal, Patricia Clarkson, and Ginnifer Goodwin, but our vote for the night’s best dressed goes to the young actress Camille Belle, who shined in a tiered muslin gown from YSL Edition Soir (the label’s non-runway collection). She finished off her look with strappy YSL patent heels and a few choice jewels from Cartier. Black tie can be a tricky proposition for Hollywood’s younger stars, but Belle’s no newbie to the red carpet (or classical music, it turns out—she grew up on Mozart). We’re singing her praises. Are you?
PLUS: For more from the Met, click here.
Yea, Nay, Or Eh? Maggie’s Back In Black
With camel poised to overtake black as the studied non-color of the season, it’s easy to forget the charms of the LBD. Not for Maggie Gyllenhaal. The actress hit the red carpet at the world premiere of Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang in London in a draped, asymmetrical number from Vionnet Pre-Fall ’10. Barely any bells and whistles here—just a pleated ivory silk insert in back. To complement the pared-down dress, Maggie finished the look with a loose chignon, minimal makeup, and just a pair of peep-toe black pumps. It could be louder or more daring, but we like that Maggie went for elegance rather than over-the-top glamour at this kiddie-flick premiere; she let the dog have its day. (Or, uh, the leashed pig that star Emma Thompson was inexplicably walking the carpet with.) What do you think? Is this a case of less is more here—or just not enough?