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So its Halloween weekend!

While lots of us will be making spider cupcakes and maybe donning a pair of cat ears (if we really push the boat out, ) in my imagination this lady will be wearing some full lenth crinoline corseted wedding dress type number with wildly big back combed hair and probably odd shoes. But she wont be “doing”  Halloween, because this is an everday kinda outfit for Miss Carter.

Although many a fashion blogger may have mocked, and even the lady herself readily admits she gets things epically wrong at times, I find her love of dressing up and not taking Fashion/Fame/Hollywood  so “paint by numbers“ seriously  hugely refreshing.

And despite her often unconventional sartorial choices, Vanity Fair named her on its 2010 Best-Dressed List and she seems to becoming a bit of a fashion darling  ( mostly after the Vivienne Westwood odd  shoes incident ) by all accounts, even selected by Marc Jacobs to be the face of his Autumn/Winter 2011 advertising campaign.

Although I’m actually not all that keen on Marc Jacobs (cynical?) use of her glorious eccentricities,  maybe people are finally “getting” her?  I think she’s just having a little  fun with what she wears, and in these times when there is so much to be sad about, a bit of frivolity perhaps isn’t such a bad idea? She cites Vivienne Westwood and Marie Antoinette as her main style influences, and really, quite frankly you can’t knock a girl for that, can you? !

Marc Jacob’s  Autumn / Winter Ad Campaign

Other interesting Girl Crush Facts  -

She famously “lives” with wonderful director Tim Burton, in conjoined artists’ studios. They each have their own side of the house with a adjoining door. At night they sleep in their respective dwellings. Not only is Tim an insomniac who likes to pace and watch TV, he says that she talks too much and that he needs some peace and quiet away from her. And anyway, counters Helena, he snores.

Helena’s great-grandfather was Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Prime Minister of Britain from 1908–1916.

She is also related to French philanthropist Liliane de Rothschild (1916–2003), the wife of Baron Élie de Rothschild, of the prominent Rothschild family (banking dynasty).

She and partner Tim Burton, are close friends with swoon sum Johnny Depp, he is godfather to the couples  two children Billy and Nell.

Helena Quotes -

Multitasking? I can`t even do two things at once. I can`t even do one thing at once.

Famous people come up to me, but I don`t know who they are because my sight is so bad. It`s always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don`t have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

My instinct anyway, unfortunately, as some people can tell, is to dress up. I do like dressing up, and I feel like you’re channelling different people. They might be very unfortunate creations or sometimes more fortunate.

I remember I did think, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?…..

Helena….. I loves ya, that is all!

x0x

Tags: Fame, fashion, girl crush, Halloween, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Kookie, Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood

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