Thursday, January 12, 2012 ■■■ SECTION D + HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ELVIS! COMING THIS WEEK In 1955, Elvis had his first No. 1 online ‘I’m So Clever’ offers money-saving country record, “Mystery Train.” tips and tricks at charlotteobserver.com/home. He received a $5,000 advance for RCA’s purchase of his contract Style fri Five uptown lunch spots from Sun and used the money to CAROLINA LIVING you’ll want to dig into. CLT buy his mother a pink Cadillac. charlotteobserver.com/style 10 sights I’d like to WHAT LOOKS RIGHT NOW see on red carpet GUEST COLUMN Oompa Loompas can pull off CRYSTAL DEMPSEY orange skin? 4. An actor or director with As Award head-turning, jaw-dropping Show Season facial hair that he’s not wear- Vibrant kicks off Sun- ing because of a movie that day with the he’s filming. Imagine Cloo- Golden Globes, ney with a carefully sculpted I want to share man-face landscape. Or John- some advice ny Depp with a longer French and pie-in-the-sky wishes for beard and beads woven into the swells. longer pieces hanging from I am a 40-year veteran of the chin. A little eyeliner glam-mas watching awards shows. I and … well, never mind … Olivia Fortson | [email protected] tried to break the habit, but a Depp’s done that already. support group and ditching 5. An actress who wears hey’re fit, they’re chic and they have a vibrant make them role models not only to their grandchildren cable didn’t help. For a while the same dress that she wore a when I was the Style editor, I decade ago. You know the outlook on life. “They” are a breed of grand- but a source of inspiration for women who want to live even got paid to watch them. guys do it with the tuxedos. mothers from Charlotte’s social scene that we life to its fullest while looking fabulous. While I’m not a stylist, a 6. An actress who doesn’t T makeup artist or a hairstylist, know the designer of her dress call Glam-mas because they’re so glamorous. And another Glam-ma, Marcia Simon, shares her over the last few years I’ve or refuses to say who made it. Three of them – Joan Zimmerman, Dee Dixon and expert advice on what grandmothers should look for been keeping a wish list for Just once I’d love to hear: what I would like to see on “You know, Joan, I don’t really Liz Hilliard – share their style and fitness tips that when they shop. the red carpet or during a care who made it. This dress broadcast: looks great and is comfort- 1. Do not present shows in HD. able. That’s all that matters.” Since that’s not possible, I’m betting the actress would JOAN ZIMMERMAN work with makeup artists be tackled and given a label She’s a founder of Charlotte-based who specialize in HD make- search. up. I am still having flash- 7. An actress in flats. Better Southern Shows Inc. and grandmother backs from some disasters I yet, a pair of sequined TOMS to Carl, 22; Lila, 22; Alex, 20; and John, saw on the Grammy Awards that she later auctions off and 20. Zimmerman jokes that since Lila last year. High definition is no gives the money to buy more joke and it is not new. Folks, shoes for kids. was 8, she’s been calling to say, “Grand- be sure the makeup artist 8. Leave the show in the ma, we HAVE to go shopping.” Now knows what the heck they’re clothes that you arrived in. The Lila loves “shopping” in Zimmerman’s doing. If you don’t, you could wardrobe changes between closet. look like a clown. Literally. the red carpet and the show 2. An A-list actress who not annoy me. Remember the Style: Zimmerman says there’s noth- only dresses herself but also year Beyonce changed outfits ing trendy in her wardrobe. “I like does her own hair and makeup. at least 70 times? OK, it was things that are comfortable, simple and I’m talking no stylist, no im- more like 7 or 8. The quick that I could wear all day and into the age consultant, no hair magi- changes are confusing and evening if I have an event,” she says. cian, no makeup artist. I bet overindulgent. The most important thing to her is someone could pull it off. 9. Make mandatory nomina- quality fabric. Her basics are skirts or How refreshing would that tions for Bjork, Twilda Swin- pants in dark neutrals with a colorful be? Imagine Nicole Kidman ton, Cate Blanchett, Will top or jacket. She has three “spotters” or Jennifer Lopez doing this. Smith and Ryan Gosling so at stores who know what she likes and Yeah, that will never happen. they will have to be on the red her budget, and they call her when 3. A ban on spray tans. Can carpet. something comes in. “That’s a time- we all just agree that only 10. More men in kilts, please. saver and a money-saver,” she says. “And proper fit is important, so find a Crystal Dempsey is the former editor of Style and has a thing for men in good seamstress.” kilts with facial hair. Email: [email protected]. Hair and makeup: A minimalist, she JIM MCGUIRE only uses simple products and doesn’t believe in Botox or facelifts. “My hair has always been short, I’ve never had hair color, and the style is wash and LIZ HILLIARD go,” she says. She’s owner of Performance Pilates, Fitness: Her weight is the same as when she was in school and dreamed creator of The Hilliard Studio of being a gym teacher. “I walk and Method and grandmother to Au- I’ve started doing yoga to keep myself brey Elizabeth, 3 months. Around DANIEL COSTON flexible,” she says. her granddaughter, Hilliard refers to herself as Gandy. Although Hil- liard and her daughter wear the same clothes, they have different DEE DIXON shoe sizes, so their joke is that they She’s publisher of Pride Magazine, hope Aubrey Elizabeth will have which produces the annual Lowe’s the same size feet as her Gandy. Pride Awards Gala this weekend, and Style: Hilliard believes that the grandmother to Victoria, 5, who calls older you get the more you need her G Ma; and Chase, 8 months. “Vic- to pare down the fluff. “I’m all toria is opinionated about fashion and about physicality so I like for women to show their assets,” she GERO BRELOER - AP has her own style. She’s given her says. “You don’t see me in layers Rooney Mara has kept a bit of the edgy “Girl With the Dragon approval for the gown I’ll wear on and frills.” Because she teaches Tattoo” look. She was on the cover of Vogue in November. Saturday.” classes almost every day, she wears leggings and workout tanks. Style: Dixon has always loved She also loves designer clothes Seeking the next clothes. In school she followed trends because they’re investment pieces and experimented with different that can be worn for years. “The looks. Now she looks for quality and main thing is to feel comfortable what looks best on her. “I don’t have with your body so you’re not con- red carpet knockout any real rules; I just try to avoid ex- fined to a certain style or limited tremes,” she says. “I don’t want to with what you wear.” All eyes will be on nifer Lawrence, now 21, and look old-timey, but I don’t want to Hair and makeup: A former mod- young stars’ clothes Emma Stone, 23, proving that look too young.” el, she was always being told how high fashion isn’t just for Hair and makeup: Dixon’s distinctive at the Golden Globes. she should look. “When I was free “older” femmes fatales like hair style is what she’s known for. “It’s of that, I decided to wear my hair Cate Blanchett and Nicole easy, I like wearing my hair off my shoulder length so I can wear it up By Nicole Laporte Kidman. (Stone had a similar face and it fits in with any situation or down.” For her age, she says, New York Times stop-the-presses moment at whether it’s a work event or going to the less makeup you wear, the At last year’s Golden the Globes, in a peach-col- the gym.” She doesn’t buy expensive better you look. “Skin care and Globes ceremony, when Hai- ored Calvin Klein frock.) makeup or products. “I think healthy diet are key to glowing, natural lee Steinfeld, then 14 and a And when this year’s cere- skin comes from eating right and skin.” star of “True Grit,” traipsed mony is held on Sunday – the exercising,” she says. Fitness: A personal trainer for 12 down the red carpet in a starting gun for the Holly- Fitness: Dixon keeps her dress size years, she also created The Hil- cream-colored Prabal Gu- wood awards season, which in the single digits. “When I start liard Studio Method, which she rung gown that artfully toed climaxes with the Academy feeling my clothes get tight I’ll cut describes as Pilates on steroids. the line between age-appro- Awards on Feb. 26 – the fash- back on what I eat,” she says.