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Celebrity Style: Lea Michele

 

 

I have to admit, I am a self confessed musical freak. I love musical productions sometimes more then fashion (please keep that between us). Wicked, Cats, Rent you name it I have the soundtrack on my iPod. So naturally you can imagine my excitement when Glee starting airing in Australia. It’s now my go to soundtrack for spin class, driving to work and any other time I can crank up the volume. So this weeks Celebrity Style profile I wanted to proudly nominate my favourite Glee cast member Lea Michele who plays Rachel in the program. Lea may not be known inside for the fashion industry for her style as yet, but she deserves recognition for the impeccable choices she has made at award show appearances in 09/10.

 

The Stats on Lea Michele:

DOB: 29 August 1986 (she is 23)

Broadway Career: Lea started out as a child star on Broadway in productions of Les Miserables, The Little Girl and Rag Time. At age 20 she was cast as a lead in Broadway’s Spring Awakening a career defining moment that earned her a Drama Desk Award nomination.

Television Career: Glee was Lea’s first big break into television. She has been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Teen Choice Award and a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Rachel in the series, the star of the school’s show tune choir, Glee Club..  She has been cast as Dorothy Gale in Dorothy of Oz, which is currently filming.

Fashion Style: Glee only first aired in May 2009 so Lea

 is still quiet a beginner to the Hollywood treatment. This includes dressing for appearances and off duty paparazzi snaps. For someone with less then a year of practice I think she is doing an impeccable job. I think for a style rookie choosing an Oscar De La Renta dress for the Golden Globes was a infallible move and this move has given me faith in her fashion style for a while to come. (pictured right) More recently she was donned an eye catching Catherine Malandrino gown at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, so stunning! (pictured up left)

 

Celebrity Style: Taylor Momsen

 

Sticking with the “Young Hollywood” theme on Celebrity Style over the last few weeks, here is another stand out star who’s gone through a notable fashion transformation. Gossip Girl cast member, Taylor Momsen is making waves with her edgy rock chick look. The rock chick look isn’t just a trend style for this Young Hollywood star, Taylor strums a few chords in a post-grunge rock band The Pretty Reckless. She not only leads the vocals in the band, but also writes all the songs, talented!

In an interview with MTV, Momsen revealed the influences on the band include The Beatles along with many grunge bands, such as Nivarna and Soundgarden.. She also stated that her personal influences also include Debbie Harry and Courtney Love, which is very fitting as the press has lashed out at Taylor’s style for channeling grunge queen Courtney Love. Personally, I think she looks fantastic, at an age where playing with your fashion style is inevitable I love that she is having fun with the way she looks, power to her.

The Stats on Taylor Momsen:

DOB: 26 July 1993 

Acting Career: Currently plays Jenny Humprhey on The CW’s; Gossip Girl (ps season 3 starts December first on Fox8, excited much?), Taylor also had a few smaller acting roles before Gossip Girl such as that sweet little girl Cindy Lou Who on How the Grinch Stole Christmas and other roles in family films such as Hansel and Gretel, Spy School and Saving Shiloh. 

Modelling Career: Signed with IMG at the age of 14. (jealous much?)

Music Career: Her band The Pretty Reckless is signed with Interscope Records (come on, you’ve got to be jealus now!)

Fashion Style: Really her style has progressed as her character Jennt Humphrey’s style moved along in the show. Her style now includes Courtney Love influences, grunge, rock, lots of black and lace; and guess what, SHE ROCKS IT! 

Here at An Australian Wintour were excited to see what’s to come for one of our new favorite Young Hollywood stars. 

Celebrity Style: Dakota Fanning

 

Yes you read correctly, today’s celeb style profile is the child star who has been melting hearts on screen since 2000. No longer a child actor, Miss Dakota is now a fully-fledged adult screen star. Dakota Fanning career includes films such as Cat in the Hat, Uptown Girls, Nine Lives and now to add to the blockbuster list Dakota has added Twilight: New Moon to her impressive resume. As her career has taken a grown up turn so has her fashion style. Dakota first started playing with fashion after her appearance in a Marc Jacobs campaign in 2007.  The 15 yr old wardrobe would be a dream come to true to any other girl her age. Full of flirty dresses with short hemlines Dakota plays up bright colours well and keeps hair and make up minimal to reflect her age (nothing worse then a 15 yr old with heavy matte make up!). Dakota is on the cover of Teen Vogue’s December/January 2010 issue, which will be realized November 17. Check out the article from TeenVogue.com below for an insight into Hollywood’s latest glamour girl all grown up. Megan Aney.x 

 

fifteen, Dakota Fanning is finally outgrowing the adjective that’s been applied to her so frequently during her decade-long career: precocious. It’s not a bad word, of course, and doubtless there are actresses three times her age who would kill to have worked with Sean Penn, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, and Denzel Washington—to say nothing of the prodigious natural talent that got Dakota there. But if her brief turn in this month’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon signals anything, it’s a willingness to shed the self-serious image that—deserved or not—is so widely known it’s been sent up in a Saturday Night Live sketch.

 

Certainly, Dakota’s role in the Twilight sequel didn’t seem to present too much of an acting challenge. As Jane, a pint-size Volturi vampire who possesses the power to cause pain without even touching her victims, she “kind of just looked at people.” Asked how she prepared, Dakota laughs. “I wasn’t in my mirror like Zoolander, doing the Blue Steel!” she says. “The red contacts were enough.” The actress was drawn to the project for pretty much the same reason any teen would be: It sounded like fun. “I read all four Twilight books in one week. It’s such a phenomenon, and I wanted to be able to say that I was a part of it.”

 

Making New Moon also gave Dakota a chance to get to know Kristen Stewart before they started shooting the upcoming Runaways biopic. “We became really close,” Dakota says, “like we’d known each other for our whole lives. We talk all the time.” Their off-set friendship added a layer of peculiarity to the proceedings on the New Moon set—”I’ve never been such an evil character, and because I do know Kristen so well, being mean to her was really weird. It’s like, Sorry, dude!” But the chemistry came in handy when Dakota and Kristen played punk rockers Cherie Currie (the Runaways’ lead singer) and Joan Jett. “The relationship that Joan and Cherie have in the script is kind of the one that Kristen and I have in real life,” Dakota says—although, she clarifies, “minus the destructive part.” (In an e-mail from the Eclipse set, Kristen effusively praises her costar, writing, “Dakota is one of the most consistently moving actors I have ever worked with. I’m always better with her.”)

 

Dakota sang on several tracks for the seventies-set film, which is simply called The Runaways and is due out in 2010, and she admits that the role is “very different” from anything she’s done before. (If you’re not sure who Cherie Currie is, know that Gossip Girl Taylor Momsen is rumored to have tried out for the part… and that she’s apparently still in character.) But as against type as Dakota’s casting may be, the summer spent sporting a platinum wig and “eyeliner that never came off” seems to have had a discernible effect on her style: When she shows up for her Teen Vogue interview, she’s wearing jean shorts, high Doc Martens, and a loose, bare black tank top, with a plastic turquoise rosary slung around her neck. Then again, maybe the onetime Marc Jacobs model has always had a bit of an edge; after her first Teen Vogue shoot, when she was just twelve, she took home a pair of custom-made kid-size MJ combat boots. “I still have them!” she happily confirms. “I’ve had to have them stretched, but I will do anything it takes to squeeze into those shoes.”

 

It would be understandable if the soon-to-be ex-child star had been gun-shy about doing a film with such a heavy dose of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, especially after the backlash she faced over the little-seen indie Hounddog (specifically, the rape of her character therein). But Dakota says she’s “still baffled by that whole situation,” and quite reasonably points out that the difficulties of transitioning from talented tot to adult actress aren’t avoidable, unless she wants to retire at sixteen. “I’m going to get older,” she says. “And I want to act for the rest of my life—it’s what I love—so I have to move forward with my career. The choices that I make might not always please everyone, but I have to do what I feel is appropriate and right for the time.”

 

Asked if she’s going through any off-screen teen angst, Dakota says no. “I get my rebellion out through my movies. I’m boring in that way. I enjoy having a normal life.” One might imagine that would be tricky, given her celebrity, but Dakota is halfway through her junior year at a private school in Los Angeles, and she says that the kids have never treated her any differently than anyone else. “I started there in the ninth grade, and they were pretty receptive to me right away. I really wanted a home base, because I feel like no matter how old people are, they remember homecoming. They remember their senior prom. And I really wanted that.”

 

According to Dakota, she and her friends spend a fair amount of time eating sushi (“We’re going to get mercury poisoning”) and watching The Rachel Zoe Project. She hasn’t dated much: “One boy from my school,” she says. “I have a small class, so the pool is very limited. Everyone kind of knows everyone.” Dakota’s studying psychology and something called cement sculpture while she weighs movie offers—and she’s a cheerleader. Published reports have her as a member of the JV squad, but when this is mentioned, she corrects the error and reveals a bit of the determination that’s made the little girl from Georgia a big Hollywood star. “I’m varsity now, thank you,” she says. Indeed, she is.

 

Edited for teenvogue.com. For the complete story pick up the December/January 2010 issue of Teen Vogue, on newsstands November 17!

 

Celebrity Style: Pixie Lott

 

Her upbeat music styling and her fresh attitude to fashion has put Pixie Lott on the front line of music and style. At the ripe age of 18 Miss Lott has it all going on for her; a record deal with Mercury in the UK and Interscope in the US, chart topping singles, an album just dropped and a fashion following all over the globe. Based in London Pixie belts out fun pop tunes with a voice to rival the best neo soul singers in the business. Pixie was another one of the talented artists to become ‘discovered’ by Myspace music. After the huge success of her demo’s she posted online, a bidding war ensued between record labels to sign her.

 

Pixie’s electro beats and fun personality on stage match the way she dresses on the street. Mixing high street fashion with vintage finds, Pixie could be the poster girl for London style.

Playing up her youthful face and shiny hair, Pixie gravitates towards fun hair accessories and playful sunglasses. Her style injects colour and freedom into sometimes dreary London town. What stands out about her style most is how she dresses for age. She is only 18, and it’s great she isn’t trying to grow up to fast in terms of her style. When your 18 you have the opportunity to wear tiny shorts, with bright tee’s and Pixie plays that card so well.

I love Pixie Lott’s fashion style, playful attitude and killer music. This tiny lady with a big voice has amazing things to come in her future. I can’t wait to watch her blossom, and steal a few style tips along the way!