Kate Winslet's Stella McCartney 'Octavia' love affair
You know how, when you've found the perfect dress, you just want to wear it over and over? Kate Winslet does...
BY Belinda White | 21 November 2011
What every under scrutiny Hollywood starlet - indeed every woman on earth - is looking for is a shortcut to perfection. Spray tans, hair extensions, cleavage enhancing bras, control underwear and, more recently, padded pants are well documented weapons in every celebrity stylist's arsenal, but this season one dress has given a boost to more women than Wonderbra.
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Stella McCartney's 885 'Octavia Stretch Dress' or the 'optical illusion' dress as it has been dubbed, has been seen on the red carpet in a few different guises, most notably on Kate Winslet who loves it so much she's worn it twice.
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When Winslet arrived at the Venice Film Festival premiere of her TV mini-series Mildred Pierce back in September, her tiny waist drew gasps from the crowd. On closer inspection, her artfully tailored beige and white dress featured wide black side panels, which sculpt the body giving the illusion of a much slimmer waist.
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Of course, the effect works better when the wearer is standing against a black background (as Liv Tyler did when she debuted a similar style at a film screening in June - she's no fool) rather than a bright red carpet, but the effect is nonetheless impressive. So much so that Winslet took the Octavia for another trip down the red carpet at last night's Carnage premiere in Paris, this time in scarlet.
It already looks like the Octavia is set to be one of this season's most popular dresses (other wearers include Penelope Cruz, Louise Redknapp and Kelly Hoppen who have all worn the blue velvet version), which can only mean one thing: expect to see an army of Octavia lookalikes on a high street near you any day now.
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