Each year Lebanon hosts the Murex D’or an award ceremony to recognize the achievements of Lebanese and Arab artists and media personalities in the region. And, since I’ve appointed myself this city’s fashion crime scene reporter I thought it would only be fair I share with you the good, the bad and the hideous.
Cyrine Abdelnour may have gone home with the best actress Murex D’or for 2013 but it feels like she pulled that disaster of a gown right out of the 8o’s. I really don’t know where to begin. It seems whoever designed this dress couldn’t decide between using the embellishments, the organza, the polyester, the metallic prints and some more embellishments so he decided to throw in everything in there. I feel nauseous just describing it. Total red carpet fail.
Lara Scandar
LOVED her look, and I’m not sure who she’s wearing but that royal blue dress with nude undertones looks like something Elie Saab could have designed. She brings such a fresh young touch to the red carpet and makes it on my best dressed list for the night, especially with that simple messy hair and the ox-blood lips.
Pamela El Kik
She’s an actress and no she isn’t in costume auditioning for the role of Rainbow Brite, Pamela El Kik wanted get noticed on the red carpet and she sure got…noticed. Between the dramatically beaded bustier and the colour massacre on the bottom-half and that painstaking metallic purple clutch she may have committed one of the biggest crime scenes on that red carpet to date.
Nancy Ajram may strike the occasional faux-pas when it comes to casual wear but the superstar songstress can do no wrong when picking the right gown and effortlessly complementing her look from head-to toe. She wore this sexy Balmain royal blue dress with simple swept-up hair and accessorized it with a Valentino clutch. Perfection.
Aline Lahoud, singer
Oh dear, I feel like I’m about to insult a sweet 12 year old girl who wanted to be a princess but it’s a dirty job and someone’s gotta do it. Let’s start with the Rapunzel hair. I mean come on, what is the meaning of this? Is this supposed to be some sort of breakthrough in the world of hairdressing? And the wedding-dress-gone-bad, where do I begin: the cut, the fabric the ill-fitting waist. If that wasn’t bad enough how about those gold leaves were placed on the side to give it that “edgy” touch. Yeah, no that didn’t work. Good luck recovering from this one.
Elissa’s been having a ball with fashion lately and she didn’t fail to impress in this white Marchesa ethereal gown with intricate beading. I liked that she didn’t do the whole cliché chignon hair women just love in this part of the world but rather kept things wavy and effortless.
See-through fabric. Check
Figure Hugging dress. Check
Excessive cleavage. Check
Animal Print. Check
Bling Bling. Check.
If Maya Diab is anything she is consistent. She definitely brings the action. Does it make it right? It depends who you ask. But she’s growing on me.
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Lara Skandar dress IS designed by Elie Saab: http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/slideshow/S2013RTW-ESAAB/#41
Nancy Ajram was also one of my favorites, but that “Bridesque” gown is something unrealistic, don’t we have good stylists in Lebanon?
Nancy looks good but the gown is completely boring and standard Red Carpet fare. Maya Diab reminds me of a Lebanese J.Lo and Leona Lewis combined in looks and style lol. Lara Scandar’s dress is the best of this bunch 🙂
What are you talking about? Cyrine’s dress is by far the best!! Its absolutely gorgeous!
Well if you will appoint yourself as fashion police, you should at least be able to recognize Elie Saab. Just sayn’.
You’ve got some homework to do.
She may have missed the dress when it was on the runway and in Vogue, but she knew enough about the designer’s style to guess that it was Elie Saab’s. That, to me, deserves more props than chewing on vogue and F TV.
One thing though, what’s going on with Elissa’s face and has she not had enough of hearing jokes about her being dressed in a bed sheet? I don’t mind the effortless look and the dress is beautiful but she could have done better.
Maya Diab needs to tone down the tanning, I don’t know what Rapunzel was thinking, or Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz with her rainbow dress, or Athena in the toga, or betty boob in that blue curtain she mistakenly thought was a dress…Hey, I am all for fairy tails but with so many phenomenal designers in Lebanon, it is sad to say that these are surreal, without even remotely being dreamy.
At the end it is not more than you opinion but as we all saw Aline Lahouds dress was simply unique and her style was like craziness. does she have to be like others for all to like her look !!! she looks fabulous that night thumbs up for the whole look ….
Premièrement tu te prends pour qui pour critiquer les gens de cette façon ?? Et surtout des stars !! Et puis je respecte ton avis mais cela si tu ne depasses pas tes limites sinon nous ne demandons pas votre avis garde le pour toi-même …
Et par rapport à moi Aline Lahoud avec ce look-là je l’adore !!