Jezebel
Last night in New York, Time magazine hosted a reception honoring its self-selected 100 Most Influential people of the year and, I have to say, the women in attendance were a cool bunch: Arianna Huffington, Martha Stewart, Angelica Huston, Wendy Kopp, Tina Fey, Madeeha Hasan Odhaib, Elizabeth Gilbert, and others. And since today's my last day as a full-time Jezebel, I've decided to focus less on the clothes and more on what they've accomplished. On the whole, these are women sans stylists: They're all Good in my book! (Though Wendi Deng's dress is a little unforgivable.)
The Good:
Amy Poehler: Actress, comedienne, Christian Siriano copycat.
I can only hope that Angelica Huston was invited for her amazing turn in The Darjeeling Limited as a mother/Buddhist nun who doesn't know what to talk about when we talk about love.
Ann Moore, left, is the CEO of Time, Inc. Indra Nooyi, right, is the CEO of Pepsi Co. Donatella Versace would be happy, surely, to see women in power wearing dresses.
Arianna Huffington: She writes books, she runs blogs, she wears ballgowns.
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, which was apparently a little smug, highly readable and very "influential." (I hate that word.)
Georgina Chapman designs for Marchesa and married Harvey Weinstein. I'm not sure if these things, independently or together, make her a person of merit. But what do I know?
Kristen Wiig of SNL: Further proof that women are funny.
Madeeha Hasan Odhaib is the "Mother Theresa of Baghdad." I wonder if George Bush, or even fellow attendee John McCain, even care.
I love Martha Stewart: She runs an empire and still manages to can her own preserves. Also, she does it in heels.
Mary Lou Jepsen founded Pixel Qi and was also the founding Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop Per Child, which strives to deliver mesh-networked laptops to children in developing countries.
Nancy Brinker, who founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is a breast cancer survivor and mother, and was also appointed to the position of Chief of Protocol by President Bush.
Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng: The dark overlord and his whipsmart wife.
Suzanne Vega: She sings.
Sure Baby Mama is supposed to be the anti-Knocked Up or whatever, but more importantly, Tina Fey has brought Liz Lemon and Tracey Jordan into our lives.
Did you participate in Teach for America? Or have eighty gajilliion friends who did? Thank Wendy Kopp, who founded the program, for the experience.
Ziyi Zhang: She acts. Also I am in awe of her bone structure.
[Images via Getty.]
Comments
Ugh, that Elizabeth Gilbert looks EXACTLY like the type of woman who would write such a book as Eat, Pray, Love.
Looking good Poehler! UUUU-OOOOOOOOOH!
Arianna Huffington's dress is kind of scaring me because it looks like the top is just lace and she needs a little more support. But besides that, most everyone looks great! yay smart ladies!
Where do I even start with the love ranting? We should just start a big love fest with these women and roll around on the floor all together sharing the love. Dibs on Angelica Huston.
Hmmm so Liz Gilbert fashioned a dress out of the crinkled drapes I saw at Target the other day? So very Scarlett O'Hara, so very unflattering.
Beautiful people!
I luuuv Wendi Deng's dress! Stands out in a sea of black.
Anjelica Huston looks awesome. She wears the shit out of that dress.
Martha Stewart, you are fabulous and I know you are looking for a new companion since Paw Paw died. So please adopt me.
I love Martha Stewart. I know I say that everytime she pops up on this site, but that woman is just pimp.
@ineffable.me: Is that cropped pants I spy underneath that frock? Was she gardening beforehand?
Totally wishing I could rock an eye patch that well. Not even kidding!
Zhang Ziyi rocks. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, all great. She didn't belong in Memoirs of A Geisha, but Hollywood can't tell Chinese apart from Japanese.
@Lady Skittlehattington: Don't forget the ritual wrapping around of legs in friendship!
They all, for the most part, look amazing....even more so because of their accomplishments. I especially like Kristen Wiig's look....I would rock it.
Gilbert's dress belongs on an awkward 14-year-old at a school dance. FAIL.
@Lady Skittlehattington: let's get together, yeah yeah yeah
why don't you and i combine?
let's get together what do you say?
we can have a swinging time
we'd be a crazy team
why don't we make a scene?
together
Is black-tape "X" on the carpet really necessary?
"Oh, you want to stand here, and not five inches to the left? Whew! Thank God for quick-thinking photography interns."
Eat Pray Love = Did. Not. Like.
All these great women together in one place affirms that we, as women, WILL be all right in the future, even with a ton more work to do. Even if we don't all make the best fashion choices along the way...
@wolf biter: Dude, please don't bring up Paw-Paw. The healing has only just begun.
Because it's Friday I have no shame in looking for a larger picture of Huffington's dress because you can see through the top.
And what's with the women whose only notable achievement is to marry and old, ugly wealthy man? I suppose it takes some sort of iron will to fuck Harvey Weinstein of Rupert Murdoch, but...
Eat, Pray, Milk Cows
Wendi Deng is "whipsmart"--as demonstrated here? [jezebel.com]
I wonder what she'd have to say about Burma. Hope they have Amnesty International in their top 5!
@ineffable.me: Hailey Mills 4Ever!
@hamburgerhotdog: well you know when she was in india, like the women there, they were so brazen and like, they wore these pants, you see? and they did the garden and took care of the children and it was like wow, so like, she wanted to honor them by wearing their clothes and bringing a little of their earth into her world.
@hamburgerhotdog: do you think she wrote a thesis about it?
Love to see Amy Poehler looking so very nice! Woot! So much powerful estrogen in one room!
Don't that Amy Poehler will soon be giving birth to the future funniest person ever.
And I'm shallow, but if I got to screw Will Arnett on the regular, that would be the lead-off on my CV.
Wendi Deng's dress looks like the result of a Project Runway challenge involving $5 worth of fabric, safety pins, and PAAS Easter egg dye.
@biscuitdoughjones: The entire outfit + the hair is very '97 Lilith Fair performer, imo. Shawn Colvin? Sixpence None the Richer? Take your pick.
I'd like to thank Jezebel for inserting Tom's Diner into my head this morning. do do doo doo do do doo doo....
@virtualcatlady: And braiding of hair.
@ineffable.me: Let's give you a Hayley Mills haircut in time for Halloween, yes?
Dear Tina,
I love you. You are amazing and awesome. That said, please don't do the weird cross-legged have to pee pose like those starlets. You are far too good for it.
Love,
Sev
@ineffable.me: ORIGINAL PARENT TRAP! Love.
These women are too cool. I can't say anything against them or their clothing choices.
Tina's pose is very "this is exactly how they taught me to pose. Am I doing it right? Oh, fuck this."
@ineffable.me: Jesus Christ, she's OLD LADY FERGIE!
Look, Fergy-Ferg. This is you, in twenty years: maing a peasant dress out of curtains stolen from West Elm with Nelly Olson hair and matching sneer.
Mary Lou Jepsen- honey, what happened to your eye? I googled to be sure this wasn't a regular thing for you. And it's not, so I worry.
Also, I have been inspired to create formal eyepatches for all occassions. Surely mauve would have been more flattering with your ensemble.
@es-ki-mo: See, my brain immediately went to "My name is Luka, I live on the second floor."
Wendi Deng: you say "whipsmart" I say "trophy wife order bride", tomatoh, tomatoe, whatever.
my visceral hatred of Zhang Ziyi continues...
and so does my incandescent love of Anjelica Huston
Mary Lou Jepsen rocks that eye patch like a smart, sexy pirate. I love it!
@hortense: she's just there for the free food. there's free food right? oh fuck this.
@animasola: uh, me too. seriously.
did you see the 'mythbusters' where they examined why pirates wore eyepatches. so awesome. i contemplated wearing one for awhile, but figured it wouldn't go over well with the boss-man.
@hamburgerhotdog: Those are her yoga pants. She's a yogi. She goes on yoga retreats. That's her "take me seriously as a spiritual spiritualist b/c I wear flats and unflattering dresses with pants underneath" outfit.
I need Georgina Chapman's dress now.
Ziyi Zhang: AMAZING!
@ineffable.me: It's like being at your house before the prom. "Just take the fucking picture, Mom."
@hamburgerhotdog: when she goes around the world she brings stuff back! she is multi-cultural and learned!
Arianna wore that dress on the Colbert Report last night - it, uh, left little to the imagination under those bright studio lights.
In the words of dear BF: "I never thought I'd use the words 'nice tits' and 'Arianna Huffington' in the same sentence, but - damn!"
Gibert, her dress and her book are all an assault on my intellect. Oprah has a lot to answer for.
@hortense: Actually, it looks to me like Gilbert's been digging around in Sarah McLaughlin's wardrobe cast-offs.
I cannot handle how much I love Martha. I can say nothing bad about her dress because she probably made it, and wove the fabric, dyed it black, spun the yarn, sheared the sheep, raised the sheep... and gave them names like Flopsie, Mopsey and Cottontail.
Bless you, Martha.
@brendastarlet: In her defense, I thought she was brilliant in Geisha. I loved the chemistry she had with Michelle Yeoh. I'm kind of a sucker for realistic sisterly energy which I thought they captured.
So does Jezebel call Chow Yun-Fat Yun-Fat Chow?
@biscuitdoughjones: Here, here. Such a sweet fur baby.
@Chamomiles Davis: Yeah, it bothers me that those are visible. I want everyone to stand ON the X so we can't see it.
@biscuitdoughjones: Dude, she's just building a mistery, ok?
Zhang Ziyi. She is painfully beautiful. She hurts me.
Wow, the SNL girls were the only real people there that looked good (besides georgina chapman and zhang ziyi). Everyone else looked like they just grabbed a random dress and put it on in the dark. Yuk. Oh, and the Susan G. Komen lady looks fantastic, the awesomeness of her dress fought a winning battle against all that crazy Times red everywhere.
Question: Why/how does Amy Poehler always look like 15 years younger on TV than in pictures? Here she looks like a real adult, she looks like a teen on SNL.