Amal's civil wedding outfit.

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Love it tomandlorenzo.com/2014/09/george-clooney-and-amal-alamuddin-get-married-part-two/ and I can't wait to see the frock. Even though the whole wedding has been too brash for me and abit not right with it. I love the way she dresses. Call me shallow but this is S & B!

Yes, Mignonette, as we are mere six and not seven figures types in this office, Issa and DVF is the best we can do.

By the way, the red dress to which I was referring was the one she wore to the war crime conference on rape, not the one she wore to a gala dinner.

How you dress at parties is your own affair but how you dress professionally is not quite so straightforward and IMO that dress was wrong for the occasion. As I said, she made that conference all about her when she could have blended into the crowd if she had chosen to do so, George Clooney's fiance or not.

Oh Because I didn't mean for you to feel attacked. It is so sad isn't it? All those corporate women in their nice, subtle, unremarkable wrap dresses then when you see them out of work....They suddenly become vivid..

I'd end up with red wine all over that top in no time!

Well said mignonette!

She can dress any way she likes! She's gorgeous, she's earned plenty of her own money and she knows she's going to be photographed A LOT. Why wouldn't she make a bit of an effort?

No, I didn't mean attacked at all! Was just thinking out loud, really.

Having said that, I just looked up the infamous red dress....the thing is, I don't see a problem with wearing it to the office, but somehow because the topic (a conference on rape as a war crime) is quite sobering, I'd probably have worn something more...eh, sober. But that's just me.

It isn't sexism at all, Mignonette

I would not be impressed if one of my male candidates wore flip-flops and a Hawaiian shirt to a conference if they worked in human rights law.

Sometimes your clothes should not be about you.

She will NEVER blend into the crowd, ever because of the intense press interest. She could have worn greige and she'd have been subject to the same level of attention. Might as well embrace it and wear the clothing she loves.

And once more I will say, there is nothing unprofessional about wearing bright clothing that is high fashion to work. And there are women in the law who don't conform to such a narrow stereotype.

Is this the red dress? Because if it is, that is one pretty staid dress! How was that (or another dress) wrong for the occasion? Because it showed her body? Because women that show their bodies cannot possibly be serious about their work? Because we live in a sexist society that wants us to not take a woman seriously unless they conform to narrow, internalised parameters of dress? Because we still equate the clothing with morality? With integrity or seriousness? How awful.

"Something doesn't smell right, but I don't know what."

Well I think I do! Tis all very Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's sofa isn't it...

Amal is absolutely gorgeous. Not massively keen on her dress sense, it's very 80s as someone said on another thread.

Because Men and women dress unremarkably at work because - unless you work in fashion - your dress sense isn't the skill you want to be lauded for.

Thesaurus

Maybe we should ask the women she is standing up for whether they feel disrespected?

I rather suspect that they have more pressing things to be concerned about. And I don't see her dress hindering her career to date. In fact, maybe she will have a positive effect on all those people with a sartorial stick up their ass. Clothing doth not maketh the woman anymore - too far down that road and we get into the 'asking for it' because of her (lack of) clothing....

That war crime dress is actually a fabulous dress and if you wore it to most corporate offices, it would be fine.

Luckily, the rape of detainees isn't a subject discussed in most offices.

But why does it have to be an either/or proposition? I once knew a computer programmer with punk clothes and green hair. She worked for (at the time) the best regarded investment bank in the world. Normally, someone like her would never be hired, but she was so good at what she did that they still hired her.

So what if she was noticed by her original fashion sense? Her work was still superb. It makes me wonder - why do we make judgements on unrelated skills?

Thesaurus

and in Amal we finally have a triple threat- amazing style, huge work success and a brain the size of a planet. No wonder some people want her to get back into her beige box :) She's far too threatening for them. How wonderful would it be if we could all just wear clothes- clothes we love or clothes we don't give a shit about without people rushing in to make assumptions that a love of fashion means you cannot possibly be une serieuse.

Intelligent people who adore fashion don't make the mistake of confusing the two. The work stands by itself. Speaks for itself.

You keep referring to women, Mignonette.

Men who look totally inappropriate at work don't progress either.

What did everyone think of her nail polish? Interesting choice.

Interesting in that most brides go for a fleshy pinky tone but it's almost white.

Well I worked with raped and abused men and woman as part of my job on many occasion.. I can tell you what they did remark upon was my clothing in a very positive fashion. My sitting there in beige would NOT have enhanced the therapeutic milieu. Neither did it detract from my professional skills or achievements. Not even the Sophia Webster shoes.

Not quite sure what you're getting at, Mignonette. I know people who work at Doughty Street and she isn't quite the legend professionally that you're assuming. I doubt her colleagues are threatened by her appearance or her intellect .

Red is, rightly or wrongly a colour associated with sexuality and violence.

It might be superficial, but it seems like the wrong choice for the occasion.

She is pretty,was even more prettier before she lost all the weight, but I'm sorry she has weird fashion sense,I don't know if its one of those cases when you only can dress for the job,and fail on the off duty look, but that cropped top and trousers,are like something a teenager would wear, and those mismatched shoes she wore is a superstitious belief in the levant region, to ward off the evil eye, just don't know why a highly educated women in her 30s believe in stuff like that,
It seems that George hired a stylist for her, or he is getting help from his powerful friends at the fashion industry,most of her outfits are by desginers under the kering group, she looks very polished now, gone are the garish outfits,

Maybe they are in love,who knows? If he was after a trophy wife, who fits the bill as a future politician's wife, there are about a thousand others who will do better for his career,

Its true that it is normal to dress up for weddings in italy, its not like the uk, people in some parts, specially the south really dress up, like Oscars dress up, so maybe they were trying to keep up appearances.

This is a thread about Amal. Unless she has a penis, the thread is about a woman.

And the same issues about boringness apply to men. However, much of the prejudice about what women should wear in public is internalised from men- especially the idea that fashion= frivolity. That is pure misogynistic crap.

But why does it have to be an either/or proposition?

I don't think it does. My boss was wearing Chanel today, and she looked amazing. But she didn't look like a film star, because she doesn't work in the film industry.

Actually I commented on George's clothes, too. I'm neither a sexist nor a misogynist.

Cardinals wear red. Apart from the Catholic churches propensity to abuse, I wouldn't call that a colour of violence. Every single colour will have a negative connotation- white for example is one of them.

Nor would I call the red of the British Red Cross an association with rape, sexuality and violence.

I never said she was a legend but I feel pretty sure that she isn't as dumb as a row of tents either - unless Doughty St is in the habit of deliberately employing the gormless (that comments of yours isn't very flattering about their ability to select good staff then is it?) But knowing the bitchiness of some of those work environments, I imagine they aren't exactly a bastion of support for a colleague who suddenly goes high profile. I imagine they are all pretty fucking furious- hilarious really.

Don't mention Chanel, please, I will cry! (was trying to console myself from the fact I will never be able to buy anything Lagerfeld designed by getting the Barbie doll, but even failed at that)

Oops, sorry for the derailing. At the risk of sounding mysoginistic, I'm hormonal today.