Thursday, November 3, 2011
Livia Firth: Butcher or Green Genius? The Oscar Dress.
Posted on 12:47 AM by follow me
Oscar night is always huge, a cocktail of chatter about who won what, after parties, whom did she, he, they wear and of course there will always be best and worst dressed lists.
Oscar night has now been and gone and awards season is over. It is fair to say that it was a great month for Natalie Portman and Colin Firth and looks set to be a great year for them both. However the internet, vintage sellers, historians and Twitter are a buzz with talk of only one Oscar dress and that belonged to Colin Firth's wife; Livia Firth.
Pictured above you can see Livia's dress in all its glory. Livia Firth is a eco warrior and fights for all things green by wearing only eco friendly dresses to red carpet events. Livia writes all about it on Vogue.co.uk where she has a blog, read it here. I am sure that is not all she does, but you get the idea.
Gary Harvey is the designer behind Livia's Oscar worthy dress with a little help from 360 degrees vintage. The reason for the buzz and hoop la is that in order for Livia to have one dress, 11 original vintage dresses from "the Kings Speech" era, so 1930s had to be butchered!
"Eleven dresses in one, vintage/thrift/charity shop buys all from the era of The King's Speech. Every part is recycled, repurposed, upcycled." Tweeted Livia, before walking onto the red carpet.
I love vintage and I like her dress, but for 11 vintage dresses from the 1930s to be cut up and turned into something else I cannot help but feel sad. I know there is a mixed feeling about this story, but seriously I am just shocked at the sheer volume of vintage frocks that were destroyed to make this one Oscar dress. Especially when there is so much great vintage available to the red carpet-ratti.
What do you all think? Is this eco, green madness? Am I being too sensitive? Or are we all just praying that the 11 destroyed pieces were so far gone that Livia and Harvey did them a favour?
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