6 Nicole Kidman, 1997
In the beginning look, there does not appear to be an excessive amount of arguable about Nicole Kidman’s 1997 Christian Dior robe, a satin chartreuse-coloured couture introduction through John Galliano, who had lately been appointed ingenious director for the design space. However it marked a landmark second for the Oscars purple carpet. “The get dressed used to be magnificent, but it surely used to be a polarising color, and sadly for Nicole Kidman, this used to be the time the place, due to Joan Rivers, the red-carpet critic used to be actually emerging,” says Mulhearn. Rivers, who had hosted E!’s pre-awards display because the mid-90s, referred to as it “the ugliest get dressed I have ever noticed”.
She did not prevent there. “She actually put her finger down at her throat on TV, which used to be so outrageous in itself, however what it additionally did used to be terrify all of the actresses at the purple carpet, making them begin to query their very own style and doubt their alternatives.”
No-one sought after to be Rivers’ subsequent goal, so stars increasingly more began to depend on non-public stylists to decorate them. “That is actually when the commercialisation of the purple carpet got here to the fore,” says Mulhearn. “Then, with the exception of for a couple of exceptions, it became the dull parade of beautiful clothes that we noticed from 2002 to 2010.”
