Anne Hathaway has ‘winning’ style

Anne Hathaway has had a 'few winners' when it comes to red carpet looks.
The Hollywood beauty is dressed by celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe, and the fashion expert says the gorgeous actress is a joy to work with.
Thanks to her star-studded client list, Rachel has 'too many' favourite red carpet moment to name, but says Anne’s Golden Globe look last year stands out.
'I think Anne Hathaway has had a few winners,' she told People.
'Her Armani Privé last year for the Globes is one of my favourites because it was super-glamorous in a very kind of vintage Hollywood way, but also extremely modern, and I loved that.'
Rachel also dressed Anne in an impressive seven gowns for the 2011 Academy Awards.
The stylist’s A-list client list doesn’t stop at Anne.
She also dresses the likes of Cameron Diaz and Kate Hudson, who she believes also have had 'too many great moments to name'.
The fashionista has joked she is probably inclined to say that anyway.
'I’m biased toward my clients,' she laughed.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol


Tom Cruise is a short man on a tall building in the fourth instalment in his all-action espionage franchise.

What's the story? Disavowed by his superiors after a disastrous mission in the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt (Cruise) must work with a skeleton team to stop a maniac starting World War Three.

What did we think? Bird's impish sense of humour ensures this is a fast and funny thrill ride, albeit one in which there never seems particularly much at stake. The Dubai sequence is the stand-out here and demands to be seen in IMAX - provided, of course, you have a head for improbable, nosebleed-inducing heights.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it? To disregard the negative vibes around Tom Cruise and surrender to the spectacular insanity of his latest outing. If you can do that, M:I:4 will be the ideal way to forget your Christmas indigestion and/or hangover. If you can't, you're better off with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Still with us? Good, because you're in for a treat. After the dark and downbeat M:I:3, Brad Bird's zesty, enjoyable romp is a real tonic that will do much to bolster both this blockbuster series and its star's career. Zipping from Moscow to Mumbai via a pulse-racing escapade up Dubai's sky-scraping Burj Khalifa, its chief accomplishment is to prove the Incredibles helmer is as good at live-action as he is at animation. Yet it also finds Tom bringing a more mature edge to his daredevil alter-ego, forced as it he is to head a fractious team of misfits whose clashing personalities are as much a risk to the mission's success as their malfunctioning equipment.

Yes, things flag rather towards the end. If you fancy some Boxing Day entertainment, though, this fits the bill as snugly as one of the IMF's trademark rubber masks.

Dior Homme's Natty Sportswear Troopers

A strong point of view, while only one of many reasons why a runway show can be judged, is nonetheless an absolute necessity for making any significant fashion statement which is why the Dior Homme fall 2012 collection was such a pleasure to see, such a fresh statement about style and design.
Dior Homme designer Kris Van Assche's vision for fall was entirely military in its well-spring - from Desert Storm capes and border guards parkas to officers mesh jackets and naval slickers. The entire first half was in khaki green, most models wore corporal's caps, and the whole cast marched out parade ground style five abreast at the finale. Yet nothing in this highly polished performance was in anyway literal. Van Assche might have riffed on regimental references, but the result was a very classy take on modern sportswear.
"I'd been concentrating so much on tailoring for the past few seasons that I wanted to return sportswear, yet still exposing the quality of the clothes at the same time," Van Assche said backstage after the show, staged in a large indoor tennis complex re-imagined as an elegant minimalist neo-classical villa.
Take the great inside-out parkas, where the exact fit and finish was artfully revealed, or the padded ranger jackets with sheepskin panels which had such poised punch. In a season of military shapes, toughed bonded fabrics and storm troopers shapes, this was by far the freshest interpretation of this trend.
Yet the defining moment was a series of camouflage looks, which turned out be abstract images of birds skillfully embroidered on to a quartet of coats. Romantic, sure to be the must-see look to photograph in major magazines and just plain cool.

Fashion Silhouettes, Sharply Drawn


By CATHY HORYN
Givenchy fall 2012.
Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times
Givenchy fall 2012.
At Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci crammed a lot into a collection that (according to the press notes) was based on the notion of the American dream.
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