September 8th, 2011
“Please help! Â I am in need of a dress for a formal event I have coming up at the Dorchester Hotel. Â My colleagues are all quite fashion savvy so I need to be suitably stylish! Â I have long hair and am open to wearing it either up or down. Â I have an olive skin tone so please also recommend the best colours for my complexion. Â Many thanks.”
Your event sounds really exciting, so hopefully we will be able to take some of the pressure off by finding the perfect dress. With your olive skin tone most colours will pop beautifully on you. Maxi dresses are all the rage this season so we love the fact you’ve decided to go with a long dress. Jewel tones are also particularly popular at the moment and a dress which immediately springs to mind is our Butter by Nadia floor length dress in Amethyst. The Greek goddess detailing on the back of the dress exudes style and would work best with your hair up. Team with silver accessories and strappy heels and you’re set!
Our Marchesa Notte–Paillette evening gown would also be perfect for your event.  Classically glamorous this floor length dress would work with your hair either up or down. Embroidered with shimmering paillettes, minimal accessories are needed. Compliment with a chic black clutch, a delicate silver necklace and strappy heels.
Finally, our Zimmerman maxi nude dress would also be very suitable for the occasion and is right on trend.  Slightly more subtle than the others, this dress is fabulously feminine yet allows you to add a touch of your own style. Long dangly earrings, a delicate necklace and a shimmering purse would boost its glamour while giving you the freedom to wear your hair up or down.
Tags: Ask Anna. Black Tie, Designer dresses, Evening Dresses, formal event, Hire dresses, long dresses, rent dresses, work do.
September 7th, 2011
Right now we are going crazy for the Australian high-end fashion designer Amy Boers. With her unique take on 1930s and 40s fashion with a modern twist we have seen ostrich feathers, chiffon flounce and mini trains featured on her delicate designs. Her latest collection After 5, under her label Amee Lou, debuted last year at the Rosemount Australian Fashion Week and has been globally renowned. Her feminine frocks have reached the shores of the UK, Ireland and the USA. Most recently her Eilidh Dress graced the red carpet donned by the beautiful Jessica Knappett for the premiere of the The Inbetweeners. Accented with a beautiful red pair of Vivienne Westwood heels, this outfit was so perfect you could easily mistake Knappett for a red carpet regular.
The Amee Lou collection is filled with romantic colours such as black, champagne and plum endowed with drapes and ribbons that will add just the right amount of glamour to all of your special occasions.  With cocktail dresses such as our Floris dress, Violet dress and Winona dress you’ll be sure to make that jaw-dropping entrance. Retailing for £300 to £400, at Girl Meets Dress we are able to offer these dresses to rent from just £49! Perfect for the Autumn/Winter party scene-add gold accessories, a metallic clutch and sky-high heels for head to toe chic!
Tags: Designer Close-Up. amee lou, Amy Boer, cocktail dresses, Designer dresses, Dress Hire, long dresses, rent dresses, short dresses.
September 5th, 2011
Deciding what to wear to any event can increase the blood pressure of even the most laid back of us, so it’s not surprising that when it comes to a work do our minds are flooded with endless questions and concerns. Should my hair be up or down? What colour should I go for? Is it too low cut? Too conservative? What shoes should I wear? …and the list goes on.
When it comes to socialising with our bosses and fellow colleagues it often seems that pressure to look the part outside of the office with a fear of standing out for all of the wrong reasons prohibits us from making these decisions confidently. However, we have created some basic rules to help make all of this slightly less stressful and a fool-proof way to do it…
If your event is black tie (such as a silver anniversary) it is safest to go with a long dress. Choose a silhouette you would feel most comfortable in and a favourite colour that is also suited to your skin tone. If you’ve never worn a bright yellow dress-this is perhaps not the best time to try it out! However, go with a long dress that has a specific feature you love! Whether it be a floral optic frill as featured on our Marchesa Notte gown
or an asymmetrical shape as featured on our Dina Bar-El Anastasia gown,
make sure you are excited with what you’re wearing as your confidence will shine! In addition, if the focal point of your long dress is above the bust, wear your hair up to show it off. Or alternatively, if it is below the bust, as featured on our Ruth Tarvydas Hidden Gem dress with its on trend side slit, wear your hair down to compliment its glamour.
When it comes to deciding what shoes and accessories to complete your dress try to choose complimentary colours that work well with your dress and skin colour without being an exact match to the dress. For example, jewel tones would be best complimented with neutral coloured shoes such as nude or a light metallic shade to allow the colour of the dress to stand out. Finally, if your long dress is very ornate try to keep jewellery to a minimum so as not to detract from its detail.  Why not take a look at our collection of ball gowns for hire and see how it works and venture to our jewellery shop page for some more ideas!
Tags: Features, GMD Daily, GMD's Dress Code Guide. Ball gowns, Black Tie, Dress code, formal event, long dresses, work do.
August 9th, 2011
This past week has seen the likes of royal weddings to exciting summer movie premieres. And with the weather making us feel more like we’re in the Cayman Islands instead of our sun challenged northern island, there’s no time like the present to bare a little skin! And that is exactly what our favourite celebs have been doing…
Always one to appear cool and collected, the stunning Mila Kunis donned a gorgeous white Louis Vuitton dress for the premiere of her latest film Friends with Benefits with co-star Justin Timberlake. Crisp white and precisely structured, this halterneck shift shows off her glowing tan and unjustly long legs in a girly and subtly flirtatious way. Perhaps more English garden party than red carpet chic, but with her perfect hair and accessories this girl can do no wrong.
Olivia Palermo chose this season’s colour blocking trend in the shape of a pleated floor length sun-dress by DKNY to the DKNY Sun Soiree in New York City. Accented with an understated pair of strappy stilettos and gold accessories, this modern take on sixties fashion was on-trend yet polished, exactly what we’d expect from Olivia.
The angelic Emma Roberts ventured out in a floor-length, long-sleeved Leyendecker white dress with sheer stripes for the Nova Art’s Project in New York. Accentuating her slight figure, this dress gave off a mature and sophisticated vibe from the young actress. With her hair left naturally straight and some chunky platform sandals the dress was played down and allowed Emma to shine in comfort.
Rachel Weisz was a natural lady in red, in a stunningly simple, short Valentino dress for the premiere of her new film The Whistleblower. With bows on the shoulders and a straight neck-line, Rachel kept her look timelessly chic with nude pumps to accentuate her long legs and silver accessories. Her side parting and wavy tresses made this look old Hollywood and classically glamorous.
Finally, and by far the bravest of them all, Rosie Huntington-Whitely. While promoting Transformers 3, Rosie’s Gucci asymmetrical dress leaped off the red carpet with pure beauty. The green top with ornate floral detailing up the shoulder and sheer black floor length skirt was breath-taking. Teamed with sky-high stilettos, she rocked the look like a true show stopper.
by Caroline Dawe
Tags: The Week in Dresses.
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