Lady,you look fab- Fan Bingbing (3)

Oh, to be Fan Bingbing for a day. Not only is she graceful and beautiful, she has exquisite taste in gowns and actually gets to play dress up in them. At the Beijing Film Festival last week, the actress wore my favourite dress from the Tadashi Shoji Fall 2012 collection; an alluring gown of red velvet and lace. She was head to toe perfection, with flawless hair and make-up, emerald jewels, and best of all, a pagoda shaped Judith Leiber minaudiere. This vampy look is seductive without being smutty, leaving me green with envy. 

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Lady, you look fab - Fan Bingbing (2)

Once again, Fan Bingbing displays near impossible heights of beauty and glamour, this time at Cannes Film Festival. The Chinese stunner wore a glorious red embroidered gown which she designed in conjunction with her stylist, Bo Kewen. Her hair and make-up were flawless as usual. I may be biased, but I am particularly loving her foray into a gravity-defying bouffant.

Bingbing also wore a beautiful gown inspired by traditional Asian embroidery to Cannes last year (shown below). I'm having a hard time picking a favourite between the two gowns, but I'd probably have to go for this years red number, as everything has come together perfectly to create a breathtaking look.

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Lady, you look fab - Fan Bingbing

Not only does Fan Bingbing have an adorable name, she has an exquisite sense of style. I've long been a fan of her polished, lady-like look, but she recently blew me away with this ensemble. Pictured here attending the Elie Saab Fall 2011 presentation, Fan is of course wearing Elie Saab. The turban was a self-made creation, showing her flair for styling as it really does complete the outfit. A bold choice, but when you're as flawlessly beautiful as her you can get away with anything!

images from: telegraph.co.uk and stylebistro.com

Lady, you look fab

Last night on the X-Factor (yes cringe, its my guilty pleasure), contestant Rebecca Ferguson wore a beautiful dress that had me in fits of jealousy. Red velvet, black lace and a caped silhouette, I was straight onto Google to find the designer of this gorgeous creation. Alexander Wang is the man responsible, as the dress formed part of his Fall 2010 collection. The dress is on sale at Liberty, or available full price at Luisaviaroma.

Liberty (was £790, now £553)

Luisaviaroma (£727.56)

I tried to find some clear shots of Rebecca wearing the dress, but had to make do with some grainy Youtube screen shots. The theme to last nights show was Halloween, so whoever styled Rebecca went all out and completely over did it. Huge earrings, red spider in hair, long plaited hair-piece....it was all a bit much, even for me. The dress was always going to be the star of the show however, and caught my eye immediately. What do you think, early Christmas present for myself?!

edit: finally found a clear full length shot....

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Lady, you look fab - Special Edition: Ronit Elkabetz

Whilst researching my previous LYLF post, I stumbled across a lady who really caught my eye. It's not often I come across someone whose style I really admire (the Moss', Chung's and Olsen's of this world don't really float my boat), but the Israeli actress Ronit Elkabetz manages to impress me with a series of darkly alluring outfits. Most often found swathed in head-to-toe black, she has a mane of wild black hair and a good strong eyebrow (I love a good eyebrow). I hate to be uncouth and bring age into the matter, but I have to say she is looking pretty hot for a 46 year old.

This is a lady who is not afraid of big bouffants, heavy embellishments and severe black eye-liner. She inspires me to pile on the accessories, bring drama to my outfits and perhaps even revert back to my Gothic days of yesteryear.

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