Emma Watson

[loonaka]

^don't think that's the best picture of her

 

[sobriquet87]

Also, here's a new article from the NY Times about Emma's black, lace dress:

Amazing Lace
By SUZY MENKES
Published: December 6, 2010

LONDON — When Emma Watson put her Hermione/Harry Potter image behind her, she celebrated with two rites of passage: chopping off her long hair and offering a discreet window on her body.

The British actress Emma Watson at the premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” in London last month.

The vintage lace dress worn by the 21-year-old actress was such a hallmark of current fashion that J.K. Rowling, the sorcerer who invented the Harry Potter stories, also chose black lace for the sleeves of her dress for the London premiere of the new movie.

Surfing the net is the story of party dressing, with anything from sporty mesh to elaborate Chantilly lace the way to add delicate glamour to simple clothes. Since Kate Middleton first caught Prince William’s eye when modeling a mesh dress over visible underwear at a fashion show at their university, the concept of transparency has been given a royal blessing.

Not that lace needed that upper crust seal of approval. Lace collars and jabots appeared on men’s clothes four centuries ago and the delicate work has always been associated with royal courtiers.

Rather like the Internet, with its worldwide reach, semitransparent materials have now gone global. Yet there is still a gender divide, with modern men reluctant to pick up the lacy stitches they dropped in the 18th century.

So lace is now very much a woman’s thing, with even the collars, as seen in Old Master Dutch paintings of affluent burgermeisters, transformed as a subtle decoration on the famous little black dress.

Although white lace is fresh and pretty, black is the fashion leader, as it has been since Coco Chanel emphasized the effect of its crunchy surface. The story is about delicacy, intimacy and femininity, with many of the current dresses hinting at the boudoir. That lingerie look has been around since the 1970s, not just with Yves Saint Laurent’s culture shock of semi-exposed breasts. A Chloe dress designed by Karl Lagerfeld was famously photographed in 1977 by Helmut Newton as a provocative image of a woman at night, flaunting her sexuality against a background of a religious statue.

This winter’s lace seems less sexual, more sensual, as the dresses mostly conceal the transparency with silken linings or underslips, perhaps in a bright color. At Chanel, Mr. Lagerfeld used black lace as the acme of elegance, while the new design duo at Valentino played innocently with mesh surfaces. In both houses, a haute couture history gave an elegance to the filigree effects.

At Ungaro, too, the designer Giles Deacon, bringing a fresh look to the house’s über-femininity, worked a geometric lace pattern of spinning wheels into a short-and-sweet dress for the singer Kylie Minogue.

There is also a sporty vibe that accompanies the semisheer fabrics. Dresses as simple as a T-shirt, cropped at the thighs, but made in mesh and lace, are easy rather than fussy — hence their appeal to celebrity figures who want to look natural.

And a quartet of young designers had a different take on what once was a hyper-feminine fabric produced traditionally as craftsmanship by female hands in areas of Italy and Flanders.

At Burberry, Christopher Bailey made a simple, tailored shirt out of lace, contrasting the feminine with the streamlined. Alexander Wang incorporated lace with pinstripes and gray flannel, while Phoebe Philo’s take at Celine was lace and leather. Christopher Kane used mesh for basics like sweater sets and cardigans, giving just a touch of subversive sexuality.

For the full-on effect of black lace, the burlesque performer Dita Von Teese takes transparency back to the boudoir, emphasizing the erotic side of a fabric that has always hovered between the religious and the raunchy. But for this winter’s holiday celebrations, the net gain is for innocence.

Also, Emma featured in the New Yorker's Year in Review on Margaret Talbot's "2010: It Wasn't All that Bad" list. Here's the full list:

Ten things that cheered me up in 2010, not necessarily the most cheerful of years:

1. Hermione Granger, as played by the lovely Emma Watson in the most recent Harry Potter movies, especially “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” At last: a heroine you and your tween daughter can both appreciate. Neither a hot-and-bothered vampire crush object nor a brat (obnoxious being the translation for “spunky girl” in so many recent kids’ movies), Watson’s Hermione is instead a person of character and playful intelligence.

2. The fact that “The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1,” published, by the University of California Press, a hundred years after Twain’s death, is a bestseller.

3. The Chilean miners’ rescue. And more than the rescue itself, the fact that the people involved in the operation thought so creatively for sixty-nine days about how to help the trapped men, providing everything from psychological and medical consults to movies, dominos, and empanadas, all through a tiny borehole that extended twenty-three hundred feet underground.

4. Gabriel Byrne as Dr. Paul Weston on HBO’s “In Treatment.” He makes listening sexy. And he’s helped to transform the show from a procedural about talk therapy into a meditation on the practice of compassion.

5. And while I’m being cheerful about HBO: “Treme,” David Simon’s music-besotted portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans, which has been renewed for a second season—and its irresistible soundtrack album.

6. The fact that California voters chose as their new governor Jerry Brown, a quirky septuagenarian with an undeniable dedication to public service, over the Republican eBay C.E.O. Meg Whitman, who spent an astonishing hundred and sixty million dollars on her campaign. And the cartoon that had an indignant Whitman saying, “But I was the highest bidder!”

7. The new neo-soulish album “Good Things” by Aloe Blacc, and especially the song “I Need a Dollar,” a seductively catchy anthem for crummy economic times. And, while I’m at it, another example of galvanizing neo-soul: the Cee-Lo Green album, “The Lady Killer.”

8. The intelligent and thorough ruling in favor of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage written by district court Judge Vaughn Walker in August. Now onward and upward to the Supreme Court.

9. Patti Smith’s emotional speech accepting the National Book Award in nonfiction for her memoir of bohemian life in sixties and seventies New York, “Just Kids.” Recalling her days as a clerk at Scribner’s bookstore, Smith said, “I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf. Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.”

10. The San Francisco Giants’ first World Series championship! (And my favorite name for a ballplayer, or just about anybody: Buster Posey.) Go, eccentric underdogs, go!

Last, but not least...Emma was number 2 on MSN's list of "The Internet's Favorite/Most Searched Actresses."

Phew!

movies.uk.msn, newyorker.com

 

[simple_elegance]

It always annoys me when articles get the ages of their subjects wrong. *sigh*

 

[Alvedansen]

"My week with Marylin" still

ontd

 

[disenchanted]

lol, what's going on with her boobs?

 

[marjanthelion]

retro pointy bra

 

[simple_elegance]

OMG, it's so bizarre to see her with that kind of hairstyle...

 

[Alvedansen]

^it looks better than i expected though, i quite like this color on her, the fringe not so much

 

[apriliciate]

^another idea dyed her hair brunette color ,maybe?

that boobs pretty ridiculous!

 

[loonaka]

retro pointy bra

She's so cute in that photo tho

 

[RedAzalie]

weird, i don't like it - she looks like 12 years old playing with mum's closet, picking most "grown up" clothes and painting face with whatever she find

 

[loonaka]

For me it's the hair that looks off ^^

 

[immortalbliss]

Cone bra! Not sure about the fringe but I think she looks pretty.. Her character is described by Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne's character) as

one of the prettiest little girls I have ever seen in my life... slim as a wand, curly brown hair, huge brown eyes and a wide cheeky grin

The photo was from a Daily Mail article which had some quotes from Harvey Weinstein and Simon Curtis about Emma:

Harvey told me: 'For ten years she (Emma) has been this schoolgirl in the Harry Potter films and now you see her as a woman for the first time.

'She has an elegance about her - she looks like Jean Shrimpton! - plus she has a gift for comedy and drama, and we're just starting to see her range.

'I feel we're going to work together a lot in the future.'

The latter's director Simon Curtis called Emma a 'proper actress'.

Curtis cast Daniel Radcliffe in his first role when he played David Copperfield in 1999. 'It's great to have given Emma her first job after Harry Potter,' he added.

DailyMail.com

Dirrty Glam's twitter tweeted this:

Demain dans le nouveau Dirrty Glam : la métamorphose de Emma Watson; gossips sur le tournage de Gossip Girl; Lilly Wood & The Prick;...

Eden at pottershots translated it and it says:

Dirrty Glam magazine will have an article about Emma Watson's metamorphosis

Unsure if there's a new interview or photoshoot..

Dirtty Glam and EmWatsonUpdates' twitters..

 

[Prairie]

"My week with Marylin" still

Well, she looks interesting.

 

[Scarlet_Ohara]

she looks great with brown hair, lol i know its a wig but still!

 

[immortalbliss]

New photos!

Outtakes from the WWD photoshoot..



From Snitchseeker

 

[immortalbliss]

^Continuation..

One more outtake..



From Snitchseeker

Some photos from the DH1 NY premiere..



From JoolzN at pottershots

Some photos from HP5 LA premiere..



From JoolzN at pottershots

Emma arriving in London on 14 December..



From watsonuncensored.blogspot

 

[Alvedansen]

i love all those outtakes

 

[Alvedansen]

adds/bigger

tlfan.to

 

[immortalbliss]

^Thanks! I like her coat, wonder if its Burberry or Balmain or another brand? I am so jealous of her coats!

I love the purple heels from the WWD shoot.. And the outtakes are great!