Your morning fashion and beauty report: Chelsea Davy’s royal-wedding look revealed. Blake Lively goes red.
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We may not know what Kate Middleton will wear as she walks down the aisle Friday morning, but we do know what Prince Harry’s sometime girlfriend Chelsea Davy, at left, will have on. She has two Alberta Ferretti outfits for the day. For the ceremony, she’ll wear an aqua green bias reverse satin dress with a jacket. In the evening, she’ll switch to a midnight blue crepe satin gown. [People]
Women’s Wear Daily goes way out on a limb here and calls Prince William the ‘groom of the decade.’ Gee, ya think? [WWD] (Subscription required.)
The woman behind much of the royal wedding planning is 71-year-old Lady Elizabeth Anson, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth who has been in the party-planning business for 50 years. Her strategy? ‘You have to really look on these things as military operations. You have to attack -- in your own mind,’ she said. [WWD]
OK, enough about the wedding -- for now, at least.
The Time 100 gala this week was fairly crawling with celebrities and politicos -- such as Sting, Amy Poehler, Martha Stewart, a governor or two. But the biggest stir was caused by Blake Lively, fashion’s reigning ‘it’ girl. The attention she attracted was due to her new red hair color more than her sea-green gown by Zuhair Murad, even though the gown was lovely. (BellaSugar calls Blake’s flowing red locks ‘Ariel-esque.’) Lively said she’ll wear Chanel at the Met Ball next week and that her escort will be Karl Lagerfeld -- of course. [WWD]
The new ad campaign for Ralph Lauren’s Romance fragrance features a real-life romance. Polo player Nacho Figueras and his photographer wife, Delfina Blaquier, are shown riding horses in the Argentine countryside. The ad was shot at Blaquier’s family estate in Buenos Aires, where Nacho courted her and then wed her seven years ago. [BellaSugar]
Wearing red lipstick can be daunting. How to find the right color? Celebrity makeup artist Tim Quinn has a neat trick: Don’t pick your shade based on your complexion; instead, make sure it works with your eye color. [BellaSugar]
Lacoste has opened a gleaming new flagship ‘showcase’ on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris, aimed at rejuvenating its image. [WWD] (Subscription required.)
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