Oscars 2012 red carpet: Emma Stone knocks off Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lopez?
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It's one thing to channel style icons of years past -- Dita Von Teese makes a living off it -- but it's another to appropriate a red carpet look that's only four years old. It's doubtful that Emma Stone realized she was doing this when she donned an admittedly beautiful Giambattista Valli gown for the 2012 Oscars, but any fashion insider who wasn't too addled by Jennifer Lopez's cleavage or Stacy Keibler's retina-searing gold lame could instantly see the DNA of Nicole Kidman's 2008 Balenciaga in Stone's gown.
There was the same exaggerated neck bow -- a little more so in the case of Stone -- and a similar rich, saturated hue, although more fuschia than red. In fact, the gown also recalled Jennifer Lopez' Costume Institute gala look from Gucci just last year. It was a similar hue with a complicated neck, although Lopez also wore a flowered -- as in made of actual flowers -- bolero. Isn't this one of the reasons stylists make the big bucks?
Interestingly, Kimberly Perry of the Band Perry made a more blatant faux pas in November when she turned up at the American Music Awards wearing the same Bottega Veneta cocktail dress that Stone had! made qu ite a splash in at the MTV Movie Awards earlier that year.
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