2012 End of the Year Style Awards: One to Watch Award

During the 2012 Venice Film Festival Maika Monroe wow'ed me wearing my favorite white Marchesa Fall 2012 RTW gown that walked the runway and saved my heart from breaking by wearing it before it got lost in the houses glamourous archives. Maika is in the film 'At Any Price' with heartthrob Zac Efron and it is a contender for a big reception this coming awards season and I would love to see Maika walk the red carpet as she has already seemed to form a bond with Marchesa as she wore a pink Resort 2013 dress to the New York Fashion Week presentation of the Marchesa Spring 2013 collection where she sat front row just a few mere days after wowing in Venice. 

2012 End of the Year Style Awards: Best Brand Ambassador

I know that many fashion industry critics will highly disagree but I was not thrilled with any of the brand ambassadors on the red carpet this year sans for Marion Cotillard. I think the reason that most do not like her looks on the red carpet are that basically all that she wears is Christian Dior and that after a while the looks from the collections all start to look the same on the French beauty. But she really looked fantastic 9/10 in her looks. She started her fantastic run with the photocall of 'Rust & Bone' at the Cannes Film Festival, and has not slowed down since. I am looking forward to seeing what she will bring during awards season if nominations go the way that the film critics are predicting.

2012 End of the Year Style Awards: Best Dressed Foreigner and Best Dressed Head of State

Best Dressed Foreigner and Best Dressed Head of State go to Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge. The stunning princess looked amazing this year at all of her public duties. One of my favorites was when she actually took a rare step from wearing British brands ans wore an amazing purple Rorschach print Prabal Gurung dress will on her Asian Jubuliee tour. Her lavender Erdem dress at the Trooping the Color was also amazing. And then of course we have two looks from Catherine's go to designer Alexander McQueen I love both the white Resort 2012 coat as well as the nude lace dress. The only fault I find in most of her look are her lack of variety when it comes to shoe choice.

She also stunned in plenty of evening gowns this year my two favorite were her cream Roland Mouret gown and her teal Jenny Packham. She knows how to mix her royal must haves, modern styles, and fashion forward all at the same time. She does this all while promoting the brands that come out of the country that she represents, which is a huge task.

2012 End of the Year Style Awards: Best Stage Costume

Up until I Saturday, December 1st, there were was a tie between Celine Dion in Versace at the 2012 BAMBI Awards and Kylie Minogue in Julien MacDonald at the Royal Variety Performance, but as I was watching the video for Celine's performance at the BAMBI Awards I saw in the recomended videos the top of this stunning Atelier Versace Spring 2012 Couture gown and I just had to click on it and then got blown away by how amazing this looked on Celine. I had lost all hope of seeing this gown on a major celebrity which disappointed me as it was one of my favorites from this collection so Celine really wowed me wearing this. If you followed this blog last year then you will know that Celine won the Best Stage Style Award last year and I am glad to see that she still has it.

2012 End of the Year Style Awards: Best Plus Size

Octavia Spencer did full figured girls proud this year wearing amazing flattering looks for her entire Awards Season run. Starting with a Grecian draped David Meister navy blue gown at the Palm Springs Film Festival Awards, then her Tadashi Shoji run began with her lilac ruched gown at the Golden Globe awards, aqua draped gown at the NAACP Awards, and then her fully beaded platinum gown at the 2012 Academy Awards. I loved seeing Octavia on the red carpet surpassing those that are usually heavy hitters on the red carpet and am hoping to see her on the red carpet during the 2013 awards season red carpets.

2012 End of the Year Style Awards: Queen of Couture

Penelope Cruz is the winner of this years Queen of Couture. Now while she did not wear a couture look off the runway she wore a custom Armani Prive gown for the 2012 Oscars and the reveal of her Campari Calendar, and then she divulged herself into the Gianni Versace vintage couture creation closet for a bunch of premieres. My favorite of these looks is definitely her smokey blue Armani Prive gown that she gave total Grace Kelly glam in at the 2012 Academy Awards.

2012 End of the Year Style Awards: Best Dressed Newcomer

The breakout hit of this year was the Best Picture winning film, 'The Artist.' French actress Berenice Bejo was one of the stars of the film who she herself found herself nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture at the 2012 Academy Awards. Well she has had some amazing looks between awards season and then she was the Mistress of Ceremonies at the Cannes Film Festival and she just brought all the couture to the red carpet, a la Marion Cotillard when she first showed up on the scene with her Academy Award win in 2008. She wowed wearing a beige and red Giambattista Valli Spring 2012 Couture gown at the amFAR gala during the Cannes Film Festival, a mod style Louis Vuitton Spring 2013 RTW dress at the 'Populaire' Paris Premiere, Gucci Premiere at the Golden Globe Awards, and then my favorite a custom red Louis Vuitton chiffon bustle gown. The red Louis Vuitton gown was my favorite out of anything that she wore this year and was on the Best Dressed of the Year contenders list for almost up till the end.