It seems that after the Golden Globes, which saw celebrities wearing black gowns in support of the ‘Times Up’ initiative, and rightly so, the Critics’ Choice Award had a somewhat lighter tone to it.

Voir was loving the fashion seen in LA the other night as A-listers walked the red carpet in a lighter shade of finery. With many opting for an array of bright and bold colours, the most notable colour of choice was white.

Here are some of our favourites looks from those who opted for the angelic approach to red carpet fashion .

Angelina Jolie hit the red carpet in a strapless white cocktail dress, designed by Ralph & Russo Couture.

Emma Roberts wore a strapless white silk satin dress by Giorgio Armani, she finished her look off with stunning Norman Silverman jewellery.

Diane Kruger wore this impressive white Vera Wang dress, completed with a silver mesh overlay adding an unusual twist to her look.

Kate Bosworth opted for the romantic look in a lace long sleeve dress featuring a lavish oversized bow from Brock Collection.

Zoe Kazan added a splash of colour to her white dress , she wore a beautiful Valentino gown complete with colourful dots and yellow sleeves.

Sarah Hyland looked chic in her Naeem Khan ballerina style dress, complete with encrusted crystal detailing.

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Halloween is one of the most creative and exciting holidays of the year. Conceptualising a costume—including hair, makeup and nails—allows you to briefly escape the responsibilities of everyday life. Although most people see Halloween as a time to become someone else, whoever one decides to dress as tells a great deal about their personality. Here are some of our favourite Halloween Queens to inspire you.

Chanel Oberlin

One of the latest characters to take residence in the Halloween Hall of Fame is the ultra-glam and (blank) Scream Queens character, Chanel Oberlin. Chanel—or more commonly known as Chanel no.1—is known for her sleek, pristinely styled hair and iconic pink and fluffy ensembles, as she is for her brutal comebacks and no-nonsense approach with her peers. Chanel always opts for extremely sleek and classic hairstyles; whether it’s worn down, pinned back, or in a ponytail, there’s always one thing each style has in common: long cascading curls. To achieve Chanel’s signature curls, we recommend using a curling wand/tong with a larger barrel, like the GHD Curve – Soft Curl Tong. The pink-obsessed character always has a flawless dewy complexion finished with a champagne coloured shimmering eye. For this, we recommend the Editor Palette – Aspen by Ciate London.

Harley Quinn

Since the debut of Suicide Squad in 2016, Harley Quinn has been a constant staple each spooky season. With the release of Birds of Prey earlier this year and a totally reinvented & more modern take on the character, Harley’s look has never been more fun to recreate. To achieve an eyeshadow look inspired by Harleys dual-coloured pigtails, you’ll need the brightest blue and hottest pink in your collection. The Anastasia Beverly Hills Norvina Pro Pigment Palette Vol 2 gives a dreamy result. Getting the opportunity to give some love to the more neglected shades in your palette is a huge plus for this creation. Liquid liner is essential to imitate her facial tattoos and a raspberry-red lipstick is essential. We simply adore Ruby Woo by Mac.

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The Wicked Witch of The West

‘I’ll get you, and your little dog too!”, is a line we all know and love; however, the green-faced icon is dropping in popularity as time goes by. The Wicked Witch is easily recognised and surprisingly easy to replicate, with a lot of room to put your own personalisation into the look. The 1939 representation of the character was made infamous while wearing a monochromatic green face. This look is easy to obtain with a green base, and with so many advances in makeup and techniques, you can really elevate this look to the next level. Contouring, highlighting, and beating your face will give this look and entirely new dimension and allow you to have some room to personalise the look.

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Storm

Although Storm isn’t necessarily linked directly with Halloween, the X-Men diva is a cinematic icon to women and gay guys—everywhere. It also gives a good second life to any pre-loved Catwoman costumes one might have lying around. Storm’s look is all about her ice-white hair, her piercing cheekbones and her frosted lightning bolts stemming from her eyes. Achieving these ice-coloured forks of lightening is super easy using NYX Profession Eyeshadow Base in White, and a fine makeup brush for precision when sketching the thread-like forks. Lip colour is optional—as Storm has had multiple looks throughout the years—but red or black seem to be the most commonly worn colours. Maybelline Color Sensational Lipstick in Pitch Black is the perfect shade of black and has an incredible texture.

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The Sanderson Sisters

The Hocus Pocus trio is a perfect choice for some Halloween inspiration. Whether you’re going solo or with your two best pals, the Sanderson Sisters are undoubtedly a staple of Halloween. With a red-head, a blonde and a brunette, you’re almost guaranteed to be able to go wig-free for these looks. The Sisters are easily recognised by their trademark hairstyles and multi-coloured cloaks. This costume allows you to take all the nostalgia from you ‘trick or treat’ days and to reinvent the nostalgic look. These looks are a combination of over-lined eyes, smoky eyeshadow, severely blushed cheeks and ruby coloured lipstick. Glossier’s Cloud Paint is the perfect cream blush to capture this flushed look. Simply build the product until you achieve the intensity you desire. Any eyeliner you have lying around will work perfectly to achieve that ’90s ‘smudged’ look that’s required.

Halloween may be a little different this year, and there is still a great deal of uncertainty when attempting to predict what’s around the corner. Having a night to escape and enjoy dressing up—while taking on the persona of a personal icon—is a great way to be creative and express yourself. Get inspired, be creative and have a jolly Halloween.

Words by Luke Nolan

Graphics by Frances Scott

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The first Monday of May hosts the most anticipated event on the fashion fundraising calendar, the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A host of celebrities across the realms of cinema, music, art and fashion come together, in celebration of the Met’s latest exhibition, to raise money for the Met’s Costume Institute. Ahead of the Met’s 150th anniversary in 2020, it only makes sense that the exhibition’s theme draws on the history and duration of fashion.

‘There’s a wonderful scene in which Tilda Swinton enters the maze in an 18th century woman’s robe à la Française, and as she runs through it her clothes change to mid-19th century dress, and she re-emerges in 1850s England.’ – In the words of Andrew Bolton, curator for the Met, the idea for the institute’s spring exhibition, ‘About Time: Fashion and Duration’ came from this scene in the 1992 Sally Porter film Orlando, which was loosely based on Virginia Woolf’s novel of the same title. Drawing on philosophies and conceptions surrounding the notion of time, inspired by Woolf’s idea of time as a continuum and French philosopher Henri Bergson’s concept of ‘la durée’, the exhibition traces fashion’s intrinsic links with time, revealing how fashion both reflects and changes with the spirit of the times.

Showcasing a timeline of fashion history spanning a century-and-a-half, the exhibition seeks to explore the inherent connections between fashion and time by dividing the collection of 160 women’s garments into two sections, the first offering a timescale of modernity through completely black looks from between 1870 and 2020, the second introducing mainly white outfits with injections of colour that pre- or post-date those in black, but relate to one another through design. A portrait of the fast, fleeting nature of fashion is illustrated through flashbacks and fast-forwards: a black silk faille princess-line dress from the late 1870s in conjunction with an Alexander McQueen ‘bumster’ skirt from 1995 offer a dual timeline that reveals how fashion can be both linear, constantly moving forward, and cyclical.

The Costume Institute has a history of making challenging cultural or historical topics accessible through a lens of fashion, plunging into pertinent topics plucked from that particular era. Take for example, last year’s exhibition, ‘Camp: Notes on Fashion’ which sought to shed light on the often-misunderstood meaning of camp, or the previous year’s theme of ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’. That fashion has been used to tackle or embody the social, cultural or political zeitgeist of an age or époque is only further proof that fashion is indelibly connected to time.

Evidently more abstract than previous years’ themes, and aside from its coincidence with the Met’s milestone anniversary, the relevance of ‘About Time: Duration and Fashion’ to society today is multi-faceted. Fashion is perpetually nostalgic, with trends from previous decades constantly seeing revivals. The AW19 runways unveiled countless numbers of looks paying homage to the 70s, and in turn trends such as over-the-knee boots, tweed and retro-print dresses have become ubiquitous. Looking even further back in time, brands such as Prada, Simone Rocha and Khaite have called to a renaissance of centuries-old aesthetics, with a plethora of pearl-encrusted, velvet and brocade looks sweeping the runways. Perhaps fashion’s nostalgia is a reflection of society’s collective obsession with using fashion as a time- machine to transport us into the past, to take us back to eras from history and escape from the social and political issues we face in our own.

At the other end of time, the concept of duration links to debates around the future of fashion. The growing collective awareness of the detrimental impact of fashion on the environment and the now-unavoidable issue of sustainability raise questions about the ephemeral nature of fashion. The current problematic relationship between fashion and time was put into perspective by the Extinction Rebellion protests at London Fashion Week, with posters emblazoned with statements such as ‘No Fashion on a Dead Planet’ and ‘Fashion=Ecocide’. How much longer can fashion continue to function at its current speed, before time runs out? It seems that the ‘slowing down’ of fashion is the only option for its survival.

So what can we expect from the first Monday of May? The Met Gala 2020 will be co-chaired by Nicolas Ghesquière, the designer behind Louis Vuitton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Emma Stone, Meryl Streep, who starred in The Hours, a story inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, and as always, Anna Wintour. And among the celebrity A-listers who will grace the red (or pink, in last year’s case) carpet, expect a myriad of interpretations of the abstract theme: timeless outfits that transcend ages and trends, or looks evoking a particular decade, age or even year in history – think 1920s flapper-style dresses or baroque-era gowns. Expect more fashion-forward looks, that make suggestions for the future of fashion, making a statement about sustainability, or fashion in the digital era. Will someone arrive dressed as a clock? Maybe.

Words by Ruby McAuliffe

Graphics by Fiona Campbell

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It seems that after the Golden Globes, which saw celebrities wearing black gowns in support of the ‘Times Up’ initiative, and rightly so, the Critics’ Choice Award had a somewhat lighter tone to it.

Voir was loving the fashion seen in LA the other night as A-listers walked the red carpet in a lighter shade of finery. With many opting for an array of bright and bold colours, the most notable colour of choice was white.

Here are some of our favourites looks from those who opted for the angelic approach to red carpet fashion .

Angelina Jolie hit the red carpet in a strapless white cocktail dress, designed by Ralph & Russo Couture.

Emma Roberts wore a strapless white silk satin dress by Giorgio Armani, she finished her look off with stunning Norman Silverman jewellery.

Diane Kruger wore this impressive white Vera Wang dress, completed with a silver mesh overlay adding an unusual twist to her look.

Kate Bosworth opted for the romantic look in a lace long sleeve dress featuring a lavish oversized bow from Brock Collection.

Zoe Kazan added a splash of colour to her white dress , she wore a beautiful Valentino gown complete with colourful dots and yellow sleeves.

Sarah Hyland looked chic in her Naeem Khan ballerina style dress, complete with encrusted crystal detailing.

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