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Image details: Telefilm Festival 2008 – Gossip Girl Press Conference served by picapp.com
Kelly Phillips Erb
(www.crushable.com)
Last month, Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester and Chace Crawford made an appearance at the 2008 Telefilm Festival. The festival was held at Cinema Apollo at one of the fashion capitals of the world: Milan, Italy. Fashion, Italy, film? What’s a Gossip Girl to do?
Leighton did an amazingly classy thing: she wore an Italian designer. Big deal, you might say? Well, yeah, it is.
You see, back in the day, it used to be considered de rigeur to wear fashion from the country that you were visiting when on press junkets and the like. Icons who did this remarkably well include Princess Diana and Jackie Kennedy. But that trend has more or less fizzled with stars and politicos wearing whatever – wherever – with what seems like little thought.
But Leighton chose to honor Italian designers while in Italy by wearing a great Giambattista Valli dress. Valli, who hails from Rome, worked with Krizia, Fendi and Emanuel Ungaro before going out on his own in 2005.
Other actresses who have embraced Valli dresses include Charlize Theron, Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice to you and I), Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Jessica Parker. That puts Leighton in fairly nice company.
I think that Leighton hit her marks on this dress: Italian-born designer, fresh, seasonal, young. Bella!
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