We’ve all experienced the dread. Planning an outfit for a big event for weeks, nay months, in advance only to break into a cold sweat when finally there and dolled up to the nines at the sight of someone else wearing a similar or even worse, the same, ensemble. This is why I choose designer clothes over high street every day. They are not mass-produced on quite as grand a scale and therefore carry less risk of this sort of thing happening. Well, almost.
Tinseltown’s celebs have had a lot to occupy themselves with over the last week, from the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) to New York fashion week, so of course there was going to be some fashion doubling up somewhere.
Raunchy songtresses Pink and Shakira must have been kicking themselves when they both hit the red carpet at the VMAs over the weekend. They probably thought they looked fabulous (which granted, they did) but when each spotted the other in the crowd wearing the exact same strapless figure-hugging Balmain minidress, they probably considered jumping back into their limos and heading home.
Being the good sports they are, however, and taking fashion a lot less seriously than some of us, they laughed about the fashion faux pas and posed together for the cameras.
Gossip Girl Leighton Meester and TV presenter Alexa Chung were not quite as thrilled when they doubled up at the Philllip Lim show during fashion week. Both wearing the same polka-dot dress, they quickly made sure to style there’s up to create individual looks. Alexa went rock chick by keeping her black leather biker jacket on over the dress, while Leighton tried to disguise hers with a thigh-length cardigan and belt combo. Quelle horreur!
Who gets your vote: Pink or Shakira? Alexa or Leighton?
