The red carpet wars
THE WEEK India|January 21, 2024
The official red carpet season has just kicked in with the Golden Globes earlier this week, with fashion magazines and entertainment websites taking notes on who wore what and why. This is usually my second favourite time of the year. The favourite is obviously December and the party season, but January’s red carpets remind us once again that dressing amazingly is an annual activity.
NAMRATA ZAKARIA
The red carpet wars

The Golden Globes were as predictable as they got. There were barely two films in the running for the top awards, Barbie and Oppenheimer, and there’s no chance a mega blockbuster about a feminist doll would ever pick up the best picture award in any entertainment industry—Bollywood or Hollywood—male dominated as they are. The rest of the big hits were regular Hollywood snore fests: a superhero film, an action film, an immigrant film and a token Martin Scorsese offering (the saving grace here). The fashion at the awards ceremony should have been the main course in this case, but ended up as a side dish.

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