I had a class at 10:30 that I had to painfully sit through while the Oscars was live. I debated long and hard about cutting class, but my friends convinced me not to. I got home and caught the last part of it. Those last few minutes were probably the most thrilling minutes I will ever have this week. I have been waiting for the Academy Awards for the longest time- ever since The Social Network came out actually! It has truly been an amazing year for cinema. It was this year that I became a film buff. Maybe in my next post I will make a top movies or something, but right now let's talk about the Oscars!

So, as everyone who has ever heard a noise uttered from my mouth knows, I am a huge flaming The Social Network stan. It was the movie that I wanted to take all the awards, and which I was almost certain would. When The King's Speech was said to be a front runner, I decided I would watch it, but I was really disappointed. I expected so much from what people were saying would be the movie to knock down The Social Network. It was still a pretty good film, but definitely not better in any aspect. Months before today, everyone has been saying TKS would win Best Picture because, to make the story short, TKS is the perfect formula for Best Picture and it was exactly what the academy wants. As unfair as that seems for such amazing original and cutting edge artists like Nolan and Fincher, it's obvious that the fans and critics all hail them to be the winners.

Now moving on to the dresses. I do enjoy award shows because it's very interesting to see what the stars come up with that are both beautiful and still please the public.



So Elie Saab Haute Couture was going to be a sure presence at the Oscars. The collection was just one red carpet worthy dress after another. It was the lovely Mila Kunis who got to don the beautiful lavender number. She accessorized with a simple clutch, earrings, some bangles, and a ring. It was flawless and gorgeous, but I think I would have been rendered speechless had I not seen this dress prior to Mila wearing it.



Mandy Moore wore a stunning Monique Lhuillier dress. I've seen little of Mandy Moore since her A Walk to Remember days, but I have noticed that she's recently been popping up in some best dressed lists for her promotion for Tangled. This look was wonderful since she looked like a modern day princess (classic Mandy Moore look). I do have some complaints about her hair. It seems too neat that it leaves her shoulders bare. Also, I would have liked a different colored lipstick, but that's as extensive as my complaints go for this look. Everything else is wonderful!



If only I was half as fabulous as Hailee is when I was 14. Would you all go batshit if I said she designer this dress herself? Yes, she did. With the help of Marchesa, she wore her own design to the Oscars. I just. I can't process the fabulousness that is this little girl.



Amy Adams wore a dress by L'Wrenn Scott. Amy loves to sparkle (as seen during the Globes). She does beautifully so in this amazing blue dress. I just really do not like the accessories she wore it with. A black clutch would have been great. These emerald green jewels just throw off the whole look. It's still beautiful, nevertheless.



Probably one of the best dressed of the night was Cate Blanchett. Maybe it's because I have a bias for anything Givenchy, but it cannot be denied that this was an amazing look. As repulsed as I am by ball clusters, I think the beauty of the details makes up for it. I remember the moment I fell in love with the collection this dress came from. Cate was wise in choosing an avant garde couture gown that also pleases the public.



The amazing Michelle Williams, who I was rooting for to win Best Actress, wore a Chanel Couture gown. I didn't even realize this was Chanel because it looked different on the runway and, for the record, it looks much better on Michelle. Everything- the hair, the make-up, the dress, the jewelry- just work so perfectly. Michelle was definitely the most put together with no misplaced rings here and no mismatched clutch there. So elegant as always!

Well, that's it for the best dressed! I am still not over the loss of David Fincher (who I think is an absolute genius!) over Tom Hooper, but I have the company of the million other outraged fans. Any thoughts on best dressed? How about the winners/losers? xx

I just download the (fairly) new Taylor Swift album, because I really like Enchanted and Mine so I figured I might like all the other songs. It makes me feel a little hypocritical when I am so against the message she sends to girls. I won't lie, her songs were once my anthems, just like they were any other young girl's. I spent the whole 13th year of my life crying to Teardrops on my Guitar. There was a boy I stalked and my song for him was "I'd Lie" (because the lyrics just fit everything). So yes, I used to like Taylor Swift's songs very very much. I used to think she was extremely talented and that the sun shone out of her ass. She seemed like the perfect role model for young girls. She wasn't like the Lindsay Lohans of the industry (even though I have always loved and will always love Lindsay Lohan) who shaved their heads and went to rehab. She was sweet little virginal Taylor.

It wasn't until Fearless that I started to dislike her. Of course, I had grown up a bit by then so, naturally, my taste had matured. I noticed Taylor's lyrics were getting very repetitive. I used to make fun of it (to myself, with no one else, because everyone still seemed to think Taylor was Albert Einstein of music). I've come to conclude that 1. Taylor enjoys kissing in the rain 2. That events in her life always happen around 2 am 3. She likes to stare at the driver while she sits in the passenger's seat of a truck. It was fun to dislike Taylor then because she was getting so much recognition and so many awards when all she wrote were diary entries of a young girl that rhymed. Eventually, after reading an article (which I am too lazy to look for) about why Taylor Swift is so horrible, I realized so many things that I wish I knew when I was younger. You see, up until I read that article a few years ago, I used to think Taylor was the messiah. Wow, the unpopular smart girl gets the guy. Yay! What I did not notice was how the current girlfriend was portrayed. She was popular and pretty, liked shopping and make-up. How was it that Taylor turned such harmless qualities and made us think that these qualities make someone the devil's spawn?

I like to make fun of Taylor, because even though she is an adult, she acts like a fourteen year old girl. I downloaded her album last night and started listening to it today. It was all good when Better Than Revenge started playing. I was honestly cringing the whole time, but I could not help but listen.
She's not a saint and she's not what you think
She's an actress, Whoa
She's better known for the things that she does
On the mattress, Whoa
Soon she's gonna find
Stealing other people's toys on the playground
Won't make you many friends
She should keep in mind,
She should keep in mind
There is nothing I do better than revenge


I don't know in what universe this is considered good. How could anyone want children to model themselves after somebody who thinks like this? For one, it shows that she is a bitter name-dropper, which makes her very immature, specially since she is famous (The song which was written for Camilla Belle. I might be a bit biased because I really like Camilla mostly for her amazing fashion choices. That's besides the point). What irks me the most about this song, aside from the obvious slut-shaming, is the hypocrisy. The main gist of this song is that Taylor is angry at a girl who stole her boyfriend (This whole boyfriend stealing concept is so baffling to me. Why do women blame themselves when it is the cheating man to blame? Taylor manages to portray all forms of anti-feminism). Now, in her other song, Speak Now, she is the one bursting into a wedding and stealing the groom. This just confuses me as to what Taylor's stand on "boyfriend stealing" really is. It just leads me to the conclusion that it does not matter to Taylor which is the wrong and which is the right side, what matters is which is her side. In both songs, Taylor manages to portray the other girl as some villain.

Another thing is her whole glorification of virginity (which I think a whole lot of "role models" are guilty of). In Fifteen, she talks about how Abigail is distraught after being left by the boy she gave her virginity to. Hey, Taylor. Guess what? Your virginity does not make you any less or any more of a person. "Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind". Really? Taylor thinks your virginity is EVERYTHING?

Also, the whole Madonna/Whore complex that has been so widely talked about is a big factor. Just like I said, the unpopular girl should always get the guy (according to You Belong With Me, where I just realized, she also steals someone's boyfriend.). The girl who is virginal and timid and simple is better than the girl who has a functioning vagina, because, apparently, EW SEX! I cannot stress enough how ridiculous I find this mentality to be. I am so outraged by this because I have to deal with it every single day of my life- people I know in real life hurling insults at someone because that someone enjoys sex. I could maybe understand it if you are a Christian, but even then, you shouldn't judge people.


Also this music video is pretty much like any other teen movie from the 80s where- hell, I don't even have to explain the plot of this. Taylor, I'm sorry that you were such a freak in high school. I mean, you were a skinny, blonde, white female who wore glasses?!?! How did you even survive?


But really, the worst is that Taylor loves boys so much that she hates girls. That's the whole summary of Taylor's message. Better Than Revenge was about her hating a girl for stealing a boy. Speak Now was about her stealing a boy from a girl. So was You Belong With Me.

Another thing that I hate is that Taylor is 20 fucking years old and yet she insists on waiting for you prince charming. She insinuates that everything will be rainbows! butterflies! happiness! once the love of your life comes and when he leaves, everything is horror! sadness! meaningless life! Way to take a giant shit on feminism, Taylor! You're becoming dangerously close to Bella Swan 2.0! How about singing about independence? No, you wouldn't have any real life material for that.


Now, that seems like too much effort and analysis in what seems to be such a harmless thing- listening to Taylor Swift. But a few years ago, I used to be a Taylor Swift fan. I used to emulate her, thinking that it would make me the kind of person that people will look up to and like (I mean, isn't that what people feel about Taylor?). Then I read something similar to what I wrote (only more coherent and objective) and it opened my eyes (lol corny). And really, if I could save a young girl from having these TSwizzle values ingrained in her mind before it's too late, then this post has served its purpose.

London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week has come to a close and I cannot wait to show you guys what I think were the best looks & collections that were shown. I know most of my blog readers do not really appreciate my fashion posts, which I find odd because that's pretty much all I post- I mean aside from that, everything else here is moaning and whining about my life. Maybe they relish in my misery? Who knows? Anyway, I just want to say that I'm trying to be more concise with my fashion week posts, because they tend to be the longest ones (I have a lot of favorites! Also, in my defense, there are a lot of NY designers. No worries, there are less in London!) and they end up becoming very draggy (Heck, even I lose interest by the time I get to the 10th collection). So rest assured that I am figuring out new ways to make it more interesting.

NYFW

Finally, New York Fashion Week has come to a close! London FW just started, but before we move onto that I promised my top NYFW shows. I prefer S/S collections over F/W, probably because I never get to experience actual Fall or Winter in my country. It just seems so much easier to incorporate S/S trends into my wardrobe compared to F/W trends. Also, while looking at all the collections this past week, I noticed that there was a whole lot of black on the runway. I realized that I now *GASP!!!!* prefer white over black. White is just so much more refreshing to look at. Layers upon layers of black clothing was seen on the runway and it was a bit displeasing to my eyes. Although when it comes to evening wear, black is still the color to go! Okay, let's get onto it, shall we?