Elie Saab in Paris: all winners

The Oscars are about to provide yet another dazzling showcase for the Lebanese designer Elie Saab, Julia Robson meets the couturier with Hollywood at his door.

Story BY Julia Robson | telegraph.co.uk

 

 Dressed by Saab: Halle Berry (Oscars, 2002); Kate Winslet (Emmys, 2011); Gwyneth Paltrow (Bambi awards, 2011); Bérénice Bejo, star of The Artist (Baftas, 2012). PHOTOS: REX/CORBIS

Two words are synonymous with red-carpet fashion these days: Elie Saab. Rarely a week goes by without a beautiful celebrity wearing an exquisite, twinkling creation by the 47-year-old Lebanese designer at an awards ceremony or starry premiere. Remember the curvaceous, crimson-hued, cap-sleeved gown Kate Winslet wore to collect her Emmy last September? It was an Elie Saab (a copy now graces the waxwork Winslet at Madame Tussauds). And the emerald-sequined ‘mermaid’ gowns Gwyneth Paltrow and Zoe Saldana wore on the same night in November to functions on either side of the Atlantic? Elie Saab.In the past year the roll-call of leading ladies who have chosen Saab’s fluttering chiffon or billowing satin to wear on the red carpet has trebled.

 

Lebanese designer Elie Saab waves after the presentation of his Women’s spring/summer 2012 Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris. PHOTO: AP Read more…

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Costume Guild Award “Nominees” Announced

“Black Swan ,” “Burlesque ” are among those up for the honors

 

The Costume Designers Guild Award nominees were announced Thursday.
The ceremony will be held Feb. 22, 2011 at the Beverly Hilton, hosted by Sex and the City‘s Kristin Davis.
Halle Berry will be given the Lacoste Spotlight Award because her “talent and career personifies an enduring commitment to excellence, including a special awareness of the role and importance of costume design,” according to the organization.
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore will introduce a montage highlighting the extraordinary career of two-time Oscar nominee and multiple Emmy-winning costume designer Julie Weiss , who will be honored with the Disaronno Career Achievement in Film and Television Award. The honor will be presented by Academy Award winners Billy Bob Thornton and Robert Duvall.
The Distinguished Collaborator Award will be presented to Joel Schumacher.

List of Nominees include: Click Here
 

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Halle Berry & Kristin Davis: Hosting CDG Awards

January 12, 2011: The DGA Awards which are scheduled to take place on the 22nd of February at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills is reportedly going to be hosted by Kristen Davis, the effervescent star of Sex and the City 2.

Reportedly, the authorities of the CDG are to felicitate the Hollywood star Halle Berry with a distinguished award. Halle Berry is to be presented with the special award titled the Lacoste Spotlight Award. This is relatively a new award and has been specially introduced to honor an actor for his or her talent and career which excels to personify an enduring commitment to excellence and an ever enthusiastic interest in the role and importance of costume design. There are other very distinguished celebrities who are to be honored at the event like director Joel Schumacher, who actually started his career as a costume designer. He is to be honored with the Distinguished Collaborator Award. Then there is Julie Weiss, who is an extremely well known costume designer who has won the CDG for American Beauty and Blades of Glory, and is now going to be awarded the Disaronno Career Achievement in film and Television Award. During the presentation of the award to Julie Weiss, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore and Robert Duvall are to be presented.

A special award for the late Michael Dennison is to be honored posthumously by getting inducted into the guild’s Hall of Fame.

–Sampurn Wire