What Fashion Slip?

Grey Gardens is the latest movie of Drew Barrymore. Such is actually the name given to the decrepit mansion owned by the aunt of former US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

Way back in 1972 the Suffolk County Health Department deemed the 14-room mansion unlivable. Dilapidated parts of the house was quite evident with mentions of caved in roofs, rooms full of cat excrement brought about by the dozen or more cats living in the house, dead racoons found in rooms with no heat made the headlines which brought Jacqueline Kennedy and her sister to come up with the necessary funds to fix the house and avoid further embarrasment with such hardheadedness and eccentricity of cousins who live in a mansion they are incapable of maintaining.

Little Eddie, the daughter of Jacqueline Kennedy’s aunt, was the role Barrymore was chosen to play.

Amidst such heavy character, in oppose to her recent time tested light roles, this one is such a big hope for Barrymore who had to beg the director of this film to give her the lead role. All eyes are on Drew as she set about promoting this latest project of which her production company, Flower Films, produced. She never set a foot wrong, behavior wise, and even her fashion sense as she goes about appearances were applauded ’til she decides to change fashion tactics by switching fashion eras on Grey Gardens’ premiere.

The headlines were saying her look is wrong. There’s always something wrong in anything anyway. It’s just a matter of combining all the wrong words together and placing it out there during those times when no one sees anything wrong. Then boom! We all get a headline of a fashion faux pas when there is evidently lack of it.

Wrong is most of the time always subjective. What is wrong in the ensemble? The movie was about two eccentric women living in the 1970’s. Didn’t her look say it all? Maybe she got the era of dressing wrong but with eccentric women in the ’70’s this look would be quite expected. Wouldn’t Drew look more wrong in the eyes of knowledgeable critics if her look says modern day glamour? Besides the girl pulled it off. What is wrong is trying to pull off this look that looks totally wrong because it looks totally bad on the one who is wearing it.

Drew Barrymore had everything ironed out on this one. Besides, when the film company you co-owns produces the film you are also starring in, nothing in one’s human capacity, can and should go wrong.

If you were in her position, wouldn’t you put much thought on your film (that you are both starring in and at the same time owning the rights to produce) premiere? Isn’t what the girl had gone through: having an absentee father, suffering and conquering teenage drug addiction, being a teenager in Hollywood and struggling to find one’s genre and producing hit films such as: Never Been Kissed, Charlie’s Angels, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and 50 First Dates not enough to warrant this girl as having her own sense? Sense that she finally made it? Had it? Isn’t that more than mere style to which she obviously has?

Come on now…