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The Logies 2010: Best and Worst Dressed

Nedahl Stelio

by Nedahl Stelio

03 May 05:55am

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I love the Logies. Not for the Awards of course. Like most women, I live for the red carpet arrivals at these events. Who’s wearing what, who’s hot, who’s not.

The Logies, more so than any other event in the world, is bound to have the most interesting outfits, purely because the concept of employing a personal stylist hasn’t yet taken off with our celebrities. And that is a fashion blogger’s paradise.

MOST LIKELY TO BE AUDITIONING FOR A SHIRLEY TEMPLE MOVIE: BRYNNE GORDON


Holy crap. Nothing says Logies like an orange woman in a red dress. Picture by Julie Kiriacoudis

We always knew it was going to be special. After her attention-grabbing debut at the Brownlow medals as a barely-dressed mermaid, Brynne strikes again. This time she looks as though she’s been practicing Good Ship Lollipop in case the event organizers grab her from the audience for an impromptu performance. After which, she does a Moulin Rouge-style striptease with Daryl Somers. Well, one can only hope.

HAPPIEST COUPLE ON THE CARPET: MATT CRAVAT AND JULIE GOODWIN

Matt Preston gets in the shot again

Julie’s smile makes you happy. She’s so bright and bubbly you could have lost a limb, looked at her face and still caught the giggles. And she’s beautifully dressed in a black sparkly dress that looks fabulous, shawl and all. Well done Julie. Dear Matt, though there were others who rocked a velvet suit at the event (Rove, Dieter Brummer, why? WHY?) take heart in the knowledge you rocked it best.


MOST LIKELY TO HAVE LEFT HER WAND AT HOME: KERRI-ANNE KENNERLY

When you wish upon a star.

Dear Kerri-Anne, Far-Far Away called, they want their Fairy Godmother back. Can’t you just imagine Kerri-Anne sprinkling her wonderful brand of magic all through the land in this divine dress? Love the shoulder, very this season, and that’s what I love about Kerri-Anne: she puts her own stamp on trends and makes them age appropriate.

MOST LIKELY TO BE AT THE WRONG EVENT: RUBY ROSE

Where the hell am I? Photo: Chris Scott.

Whoops! Ruby Rose appears to have gotten a little confused and dressed for the finale of her show, Ultimate School Musical, instead of the Logies. Great dress. Gorgeous. But the Logies already has an image problem and those who know better fashion-wise, like Ruby, shouldn’t add to the issue. Yes, you can wear a cocktail dress to a black-tie event. But this is a mini and more suited to a frockn’roll party that Ruby no doubt, is more used to attending.

MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WITH CHILD: NATALIE BASSINGTHWAITE

One hot mamma. Photo Chris Scott

Absolutely adore this dove grey, floaty concoction which has uneven layers, various hemlines and lots of lovely texture with the sparkle detail. Add to the fact that she’s pregnant and looks damned spectacular with that bump? 10 points Nat Bass, 10 points.

MOST LIKELY TO BE AUSTRALIA’S NEXT INTERNATIONAL STAR: MEGAN GALE

Holy crap. In a good way this time. Photo: Fiona Hamilton.

The girl has charisma, there’s no denying it. She’s miles ahead of the pack in this simple, elegant black sheath, expertly accessorized with the earrings and clutch. A less wise woman would have tried a necklace, but not Megan. She knows that her skin is her best accessory.

MOST LIKELY TO HATE BEING JUDGED: JASON COLEMAN, BONNIE LITHGOE AND MATT LEE

So you think you can dress?

Ahhh, the So You Think You Can Dance judges.  Let’s gloss over Matt (right) who plays it safe, Bonnie (centre) who quite literally sparkles, and head to Jason (left) who has just left me confounded as to why he got his hat from the pack of three in the party aisle at Woollies.

THE CLOSEST THING WE HAVE TO AUSSIE TV ROYALTY: REBECCA GIBNEY
Silver is gold in the hands of Gibney.

So it’s fitting then, that she stands out in a beautiful royal blue, off-the-shoulder gown. Everything about this dress says “I’m a Star but I’m still so real, approachable and likeable, that I’ll always have a job on Australian television.” Too right Rebecca!

MOST LIKELY TO FALL OVER AT THE AFTER-PARTY: CARRIE BICKMORE

Bit over the top down below

I’ve never been a fan of a fishtail. Especially one that gathers around the calves like bubbling black froth threatening to swallow one’s legs. The middle of the dress is great. It fits her beautifully and looks just wonderful. If only she hadn’t gone for those moulded cups which never work on anyone unless you’re Madonna in the 90’s and even then, she had her critics. Look, if we chopped off the top and the bottom, this would be lovely. Can we do that?

MOST DISAPPOINTING: JENNIFER HAWKINS

She just looks bloody awful, don't she? Photo: Chris Scott

Tip: just because you’re genetically blessed doesn’t mean you can get away with a long-sleeved mini at the Logies. This is not an episode of Real Housewives of Atlantic City. Disappointing because Jen usually gets it right.

BEST EXPERIMENTAL: CLAUDIA KARVAN

Mmmm. I'm brooding. Picture: Julie Kiriacoudis

While I know some may not agree, I think Claudia has expertly managed to balance elegant black tie with her own unique personality. Love the simple black dress accented with wrist gloves and that beautiful hair. This is the kind of thing Ruby Rose was trying to pull off: to be her own person at a black tie event. But Claudia wins this round hands down.

BEST ACCESSORY: ESTHER ANDERSON

Did somebody say nice bag. Photo: Fiona Hamilton

MOST LIKELY TO HAVE THOUGHT THIS WAS HER WEDDING: CATRIONA ROWNTREE
She has to marry Bert at the end of the night. Picture: Julie Kiriacoudis

There’s always one at an Awards Event. The woman who forgot that wearing a beautiful white, strapless dress is actually a wedding dress and should only ever be worn down the aisle. Strike one Catriona.

MOST CONFUSED: GABRIELLA CILMI

Police are looking for a purple sleeve. Photo: Fiona Hamilton

Am I in a one shoulder dress? Where’s my other sleeve? Am I wearing a short dress? Or a long one? Am I in blue? Or in black? Is my hemline straight? Or crooked? Ohhh! Can I start getting dressed from the beginning please?

AND THE BEST DRESSED IS . . . . JESSICA MARAIS

You gotta love the look on the woman behind her. Photo: Getty. width=

There’s something ultra chic about black, skintone and lace paired together on a dress and Jessica (from Packed to the Rafters) pulls this off beautifully. It’s the perfect blend of sexy with stylish for a red carpet event.

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    • Paul says:

      06:54am | 03/05/10

      “Like most women, I live for the red carpet arrivals at these events. Who’s wearing what, who’s hot, who’s not.”....I love the way you inflected your article with a touch of sarcasm so as to make it obvious that you don’t actually believe the asinine generalisations you’re making…oh, wait….oops. My condolences.

      Reply

    • Jules says:

      08:46am | 21/12/10

      What are you doing reading an article like this if it’s just to insult it? Seems like a silly, pointless waste of time.
      There’s nothing wrong with liking pretty dresses.

    • Eno says:

      07:01am | 03/05/10

      Brynne Gordon is a style goddess.. if only she could find her sheep!!

      Reply

    • bec says:

      08:53am | 03/05/10

      I secretly love her. She is so Vegas/mobwife spectacular that her enthusiasm alone makes her hot. And secretly, I’m happy she’s found someone whose love for excess comes close to hers.

    • Macon Paine says:

      10:24am | 03/05/10

      Brynne Gordon style goddess? Her enthusiasm alone makes her hot?
      Sorry but if you think this your a sandwich short of a picnic. Im not into the whole mutton dressed as lamb thing anyway.
      Carrie Bickmore probably looks the best out of the ones above, shes at least made some attempt to look classy.

    • Liz says:

      08:01am | 03/05/10

      OMG they all look tasteless, whatever happened to elegant?

      Reply

    • Paul2 says:

      08:45am | 03/05/10

      Who are half these people?  Is celebrity based on how quickly you can place yourself in front of a camera?

      Reply

    • bec says:

      08:54am | 03/05/10

      What is with all the tanorexia? Is it too much to ask that people actually get the same shade or tone of tan on their legs and hands as they do on their neck and arms? These girls, they all look like rotisserie chickens…

      Reply

    • DG says:

      08:57am | 03/05/10

      stars? how do cooks, one hit wonders and gold diggers become icons of style and taste?
      aspire to higher endevors Australia- not half baked “tele starlets” who come and go at the whim of a producers casting couch!

      Reply

    • Crow says:

      09:34am | 03/05/10

      Aspire to better spelling, DG!

    • DG says:

      10:08am | 03/05/10

      Thanks Crow

      the world is now a much safer with the spelling gestapo keeping an eye on things!!

    • Ric says:

      09:30am | 03/05/10

      Brynne Gordon…...... Wow…..... Now lets see her try and sit down in that “Dress”!!

      Reply

    • Crystal says:

      09:38am | 03/05/10

      Has Jessica Marais had work done? I mean she’s looking Smokin’ but different ....

      Reply

    • Zeta says:

      09:52am | 03/05/10

      Matt Preston has a golden opportunity to be a fashion icon for heavy bros, but instead just looks like the awkward, fat trumbone player from the high school band who, like Gandhi, probably took a lot of girls to bed but maintained a vow of celibacy. WTF bro, the cravats are just stupid. They draw attention to your big stupid neck, and was that jacket velvet? 1971 called, they want their fabric back. As an equally large dude, I know you need a fabric that breaths when you’re trying to be chill at a red carpet event. Velvet might as well be latex for all the good it’s doing you. Dude, remember this easy rhyme: “When you’re a big bro, it’s all about air flow.” Or else you end up looking like Burt Newton’s infected hair folicles. And big guys should subtract a button from their jackets for every twenty kilograms they’re over their BMI. Low, single and double button suit jackets highlight your chest and shoulders while obscuring your stomach and hips.

      Matt Preston, you disappointed me.

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    • bec says:

      10:31am | 03/05/10

      Good call on the double-breasting for big dudes. Just… avoid.

      Also, hats. Is there a big dude kit, manufactured circa 1997, that requires every slightly large dude to have some kind of spiky hair/goatee, collection of Hawaiian shirts, and a hat of some description, as if they were going for an audition for bass player for Hootie and the Blowfish?

    • Zeta says:

      11:55am | 03/05/10

      @ bec - Beware of men in hats. There was a book that came out, probably a few years ago now, that was like ‘The Secret’ for physically insecure bros to learn how to pick up women in bars. It recomended you wear a hat, or grow a goatee, or a have a stupid shirt, so you ‘d be visually interesting. The hat means they’re on the prowl. Avoid at all costs.

    • bec says:

      12:04pm | 03/05/10

      Ah, The Game. When I used to work in a bookshop, every slightly under-bathed, well-fed anti-socialite would buy that. Generally not purchased by those for whom good personal hygiene, conversation skills and social intelligence came naturally.

      On the topic of beards, go google “the trustworthiness of beards”. I occasionally issue it to students who push the boundaries of facial hair.

    • Helen says:

      09:53am | 03/05/10

      Ruby Rose gave an interview last year where she mentioned that she’d been bullied senseless at school. Evidently, you are one of those bullies coming back for another go.
      Honestly, RR is relatively new compared with your Claudia Karvans and your Kerrieannes, so could you possibly dial down the sneering and bullying a little? There is absolutely nothing wrong with her outfit other than the fact that it’s been deemed inappropriate for an “event” where TV types get together for awards. FFS, it’s not dinner at the Governor General’s.

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    • DG says:

      10:50am | 03/05/10

      Claudi Karvans nip slip…......about time there was some up front “boob- a- liscious” at the Logies ......and not just saved for the after parties!

    • Shane says:

      11:10am | 03/05/10

      Helen, Nedahl’s comments are not bullying. I think your heart’s in the right place but that you’re trivialising the entire issue. Bullying is the relentless emotional and psychological attacks on another person. Saying you don’t like someone’s outfit and having a giggle at their fashion mistake, although impolite, is no where near the same thing.

      Comparsions like this are the reason if people really are being bullied suffer - they’ll get told to “just ignore it”, “turn the other cheek” and other such nonsense that resolves nothing.

      I have also read Ruby’s comments about being bullied and seriously doubt she would place Nedahl’s comments in the same category as her high school experience(s).

    • AdamC says:

      11:12am | 03/05/10

      “There is absolutely nothing wrong with her outfit other than the fact that it’s been deemed inappropriate for an “event” where TV types get together for awards”

      Well, that and it looks bad. There is far too much going on, eugh. Her hair (which normally looks pretty good) looks bad here too.

    • Hamish says:

      01:46pm | 03/05/10

      Did anyone notice how similar Ruby Rose’s outfit was to Sigrid Thornton’s? Weird.

      And Helen, Ruby’s dress may have been inappropriate, but that only ever gets pointed out if you also look crap.

    • Rebecca says:

      02:08pm | 03/05/10

      Cripes, who WASN’T bullied at school? Critiques regarding clothes on a blog do not equal bullying.

    • Alex says:

      11:45am | 03/05/10

      Lol she reminds me or a big orange icecream cone!!

      Reply

    • James says:

      02:56pm | 03/05/10

      Best Dressed was Carrie Bickmore by a mile and more…..she looked absolutely stunning and to see her win a Logie for Best New Female Talent was the icing on the cake!

      Reply

    • Jack says:

      04:54pm | 03/05/10

      Huge talent James, she can read and look at the camera simultaneously.

      If she could say “working families” without laughing she’d be a Labor Minister.

    • Marcella says:

      04:22pm | 03/05/10

      Claudia Karvan or…. Claude? To me she looks like a man in drag.  Not that I have anything with a good looking man cross-dressing. She lacks femininity probably because she looks so gaunt and undernourished.  If you want to look fabulous in a tuxedo style dress you have to look feminine and she just doesn’t, probably due to… over exercise, diet and diuretics.  She needs to live a little.

      Reply

    • poodle says:

      07:49pm | 03/05/10

      how do you know she exercises too much or eats too little? some people are just skinny. lay off.

    • Harquebus says:

      04:24pm | 03/05/10

      The Logies are garbage and only celebrates Aussie drivel. Don’t brag too much about loving them Nedahl, it only makes you look bad no matter how well you dress.
      Why do women wear make up and perfume?

      Reply

    • Marcella says:

      04:25pm | 03/05/10

      Ruby Rose.. finally an outfit that goes with her old hair style.  Style is great colour is awful.  Any just because yr a tv personality doesn’t mean you’re gonna get a gifted stylist.  She looks like she got dressed in the dark.. upside down.  Its just nothing special at all.. a big try hard and fell flat on her face.  I don’t get why the media supports this its so sad!

      Reply

    • Dick J says:

      05:05pm | 03/05/10

      Who on earth are these people? I have never heard of most of them except Kerri Anne K and the photo doesn’t look like her anyway.

      Now I know why I don’t watch commercial TV.

      Reply

    • nosthow says:

      05:43pm | 03/05/10

      Poor Brynne - she looked ghastly - someone should tell her ! And when she talks !!!!

      Reply

    • robert smissen says:

      11:28pm | 03/05/10

      Thanks to this woman my young son is in therapy, he had nightmares last night! !

    • Wallaby says:

      10:11am | 04/05/10

      I just wish that Brynne Gordon would use a mouth organ instead of that god awful whiny nasally stryyyyynnne. Thank god I don’t have to wake up to that of a morning.

      Reply

    • Jacqueline. says:

      01:05pm | 18/01/11

      I thought orange looked bad on everyone? Why do I see so many orange people? Is it a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory theme? And Jennifer Hawkins… Honestly.. Who invited her and did they forget to tell her about the dress code? Oh, it’s sponsored by Myer - so that’s why she’s there, not because she has ever done a good job on TV. At least she got the memo about the Oompa Loompa theme.

      Reply
 
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