There's Method in it

What is it with previously demure actresses stripping off for GQ when they have vaguely risque films to promote.

Don't get me wrong, Keira and Michelle both look amazing, but it just doesn't seem like them. They are both quite reserved dressers. Not boring or uptight, but certainly elegant or interesting over sexy.

And suddenly here they are in their undercrackers.

(Images via GQ, Holy Moly)

It isn't as though they aren't famous enough and need to get them out for publicity. What other reason can there be?

Mid-Life Crisis

Since Keira wore this Roksanda Illincic dress I have been totally lusting after this mid-length pencil style skirtage. It is so incredibly elegant.

I was already feeling mid-length, but the pleated, floaty ballerina style. The pencil style is defintely more severe. But I'm ready for it.

Amy Adams aslo worked it in a slightly more saucy version.

For real life I think a dark boucle pencil from Hobbs would be just perfect.

I just need to make sure I get one that isn't too tight in the knee so that I can walk up stairs in it.

But super cute, no? With a floaty, feminine blouse. Perfect for the office I say.

(Images via Go Fug Yourself, Hobbs)

The Kat Who Got the Cream

Hands down my favourite dress worn by anyone at Venice Film Festival was the Mary Katrantzou worn by Keira Knightley. The shape is incredibly demure but the pattern is quite challenging. Which makes for a pretty brave fashion choice.

So I applaud her for that. I think she looked amazing.

Plus it gives us the opportunity to remind ourselves just how lovely the rest of Mary Katrantzou's collection was.

Not to everyone's taste, and certainly not easy to wear, but utterly beautiful.

(Images via Elle UK and Style.com)

Loose Lips

(Via Holy Moly)

Doesn't Scarlett Johansson look weirdly like Keira Knightley with her pouting in this French Elle shoot?

Pretty, but not really like herself.

Good Point Well Made(moiselle)

(Via Selfridges)

I know that Keira Knightley isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I think she is awfully pretty. And she looks lovely in the new Coco Mademoiselle ads.

Green With Envy

(Via French Connection)

I don't usually celebrate New Year. I find it utterly overrated and usually have a terrible time. This year I have some new found optimism, and am very much looking forward to it.

So, of course, my mind has come to dresses and shoes (which might be entirely pointless as it is possibly going to be fancy dress).



And this little number is just heaven. It kind of reminds me of the dress Keira Knightley wears in Atonement (the colour in the flesh is much closer to that than it appears here).



And that can surely be no bad thing.

While I think it is actually quite understated in terms of detail, going maxi does still seem to be quite dressed up. And seeing as I am a bit of a midget maybe the combination of length and heels and booze might be unwise with the eventuality of either me or a fellow partygoer treading on it and attempting to tear it off my body being quite high.

I can always dream though, right?!

Keira Royale

(Via Go Fug Yourself)

I love this dress. The colour is just beautiful and it's so elegant and grown up and pretty. Sigh!

Lady of the Knight(ley)

(Via Handbag)

Doesn't Keira look lovely with her new do? It is making me wonder if I should grow mine out into a bob. Although I do have a love/hate relationship with the bob. It can be incredibly elegant and chic, worn by women who are effortless and comfortable in their own skin. But I feel as though it is the haircut that I will inevitably end up with when I am "a woman of a certain age" as the not so proud owner of very straight, fine hair. My mother has been rocking the bob for many years and looks terribly elegant with it, but I like to rebel against being told what to do, particularly if the one telling me is my hair. You know?


Ms Knightley might well have given me a little renewed enthusiasm for it though.



Plus she looked delightful at the London premiere of Never Let Me Go. Although does that dress look like it was made out of a deconstructed Chanel suit. No bad thing, mind. Just an observation.